Storytelling - Place names in Kaisertal

Some great stories were created to explain the various names in the Kaisertal...beware...some stories are gory!

The “Totensessel”
Tom was the richest man of the town Kufstein. Once met his friend Max in a pub to have fun by drinking something. After many beers they couldn’t think clear anymore and talked a lot of nonsense. That’s why Tom bet that he would be able to build a big hotel in the “Naturshutzgebiet” at the foot of the Kaisergebirge. But that’s not any place. There’s a dark wood where all the wild animals went. Scary stories were told about the sudden death of all those who wanted to build something there. It’s not very surprising that nobody wanted to help Tom building the hotel. But since Tom owned the “Froschl” - company he forced his men to go with him. So they packed there things and started to pass through the whole Kaisertal up to the area they wanted to build at.
They worked very hard and so work went very well. But one day the stream which flow straight beneath them didn’t bring any water anymore. It dried out. The sun burned down and they had no water left, neither to drink nor to build. Since Tom wanted to get the hotel ready very quickly, his men had to keep on working. But there didn’t fall any rain for days and days. And one day Tom gave up waiting for water and decided to have a break and work when water flows again.
When they were on their way down to the valley again all for a sudden a big flooding came after them and 3 of Tom’s best workers drowned. But Tom didn’t really care about this. He forced his very frightened men to accompany him back up to finish the hotel.
For some days there happened nothing special; the workers did what they had to do and Tom gave commands. But one morning when they started to work again, they realized that one of them was missing. When they came to his sleeping place they found him dead, nearly eaten up by millions of little ants which run around and over him steadily. The young man’s father, who is one of Tom’s workers too got very angry about this. He was very sure that his son wouldn’t have had to die if they wouldn’t had been forced to go and finish the hotel after the flooding. He decided to kill Tom.
Tom just finished his great seat in front of the building. For this he put down a big tree. Now he was so tired that he sat down on the chair and immediately fell to sleep.
The young man’s father catched this moment and took Tom’s axe. He put it behind his back and then slashed it down on Tom’s neck and the head rolled down the hill. At this moment a great thunder storm broke out. All workers were so scared that they left their stuff and the already finished “hut” behind them. The heavy rain took Tom’s body with it and brought it down into the Inn’s valley. There are still some drops of Tom’s blood on the chair and nobody dares to come nearer than one meter to it. And since the seat was the place where Tom had to die everybody calls it Totensessel.

Tom had lost his “Wette.” He wasn’t able to run a hotel at this frightening place. Now Max went up and took over the “hut.” But as soon as he tried to build the “hut” a bit bigger somebody who was involved in this building died in a strange way.
That’s the reason why the “hut” we stay in looks still like it already looked about 100 years ago.
The End
-Theresa, Danielle


Teufelskanzel

On the top of a a high mountain in Tyrol, not far away from Hinterbärenbad, devils met every 6th day of each month to hold the big conference which was hold in secret…
The place was illuminated by the moon and 6 statues of passed victims formed a circle. No one else than those devils was supposed to penetrate that satanic place but it happened from time to time that a lost sheep found it’s way up the hill…
So 6 lost people had found their way to the devils meeting and those were never seen again. No trace was found of the unlucky victims as they got petrified. One day a shepherd searched for his lost sheep as he got caught up in a storm. He found an escape from the thunderstorm by hiding next to 6 pretty authentic looking stone figures…
Not long after he had found his hiding spot, the devils appeared and this was the shepherd’s end. Ha Ha!
You can still see the figures today and the 6 devils might return one day…!!!???
- Michelle, Sara, Mira


Teufelswürzgarten

Once upon a time there were two brave hikers who wanted to go on a high mountain. They hiked the whole day and in the evening then they came to a house with a little garden with apple trees. They knocked at the door and a little man with a grey beard came out. He asked what the hikers want and they said him that they wanted to sleep in his house for going to the top in the next morning. The old man said that they can sleep there but only when they stay in their rooms at night.
In the night when the hikers went to bed, there heard strange noises. One of the hiker wanted to see where the noises came from. The second hiker follow him and the search together. Suddenly one of them saw the old man with the grey beard. The old man said: You are going out of your rooms I must kill you. The hikers ran out and the old man followed them as quickly as he can. The man got one of the hikers and killed him. The other hiker ran out of the garden an he saw that the old man “in wirklichkeit” the “Teufel” was and put salt at the killed hiker to eat him. That’s why the area is named “Teufelswürzgarten.”
- Matthias H. & Chriss


Pyramidenspitze

100 years ago, there was a man. His name was Viktor. he flew to Egypt to see and to climb on the beautiful pyramids.
Then, Viktor saw a big one. And he climb also on this pyramid. At the middle of the pyramid he made a brake and drank some water. Then he go again. When he was on the top of the pyramid, he was so happy that she shouted: “Hwwa!”
But then it happened: He heard a voice who said: come to me, come to me, follow me. but he can’t see anything, so he follow the beautiful voice. Then he was on the end of the pyramid and doesn’t know it. Normale, he fall down, but he hold on on a stone. So he allived. but he hurts himself. The stone made a big hole in his body. After 7 days, he had a hurtful dead. And now when some people climb on the pyramid and they climb on the top, they never were seen again. Many people say that the soul from Viktor is live in the pyramid.
- Vani, Beddi, Eli


Near a village there was a lake. One day a village was missing. A fisherman had found the heard of the missing village. So the strange man make a night watch.
A next day the villagers found the heard of the man. This goes more agane and agane.
They believe that there live a monster in the lake. One day a joung clever boy had an iddee.
To pumpen out the water of the lace. So the villager do this. The Monster was trying out. But the lace are never drying out. to the villagers must leave there village.
- Michaela, Denise, Katharina


Kopfkraxen

Many many years ago, there was an old hunter who can’t shoot anything. One day when he hiked to the Kopfkraxen, he went to his hunting tree house to shoot a bambie. His 3 legded dog was with him. The dog was old and she ??? It had only 3 legs and 1 ball because 9 years ago the hunter missed wrong the bambie again.
The hunter prepared his shotgun in his hunting tree house to shoot the bambie which he missed 9 years ago. In the afternoon the bambie came out of the wood and the hunter saw it. He loaded his weapon and aimed for the bambie. But he has drunk too much aimwater while waiting for the bambie and he missed it and he headshoted his dog. He wasn’t very sad because it he’s already been old and so he cut off it’s head to make a trophy out of it. He put the head and the shotgun in his kraxen and went home.

Kopfkraxen and the 3 legded dog are trademark of Lucas and Dany cooperation.
-Lucas & Dany