Schlosshotel Post

The Schlosshotel Post began its history over 500 years ago as the Schloss Sprengenstein then later became an important post station. For over 100 years it has been a hotel owned for four generations by the Pfeifer family. From the moment you walk up a flight of stairs to the main lobby, the mood is of quality and refinement: tasteful antiques abound. Most of the furniture is of the Biedermeier period except for that in the cozy little dining rooms, which are decorated in country style with rustic wooden furniture and paneled walls. The formality also disappears completely as you enter onto a romantic, trellised veranda, laced with ivy and accented by boxes of brightly colored flowers, which wraps around the side of the hotel. Here meals are served looking over the expansive gardens, swimming pool, and town, and beyond to the mountains. Whether served on the veranda or in the main dining room, the food is delicious. Rooms are found off wide central hallways in the former castle and in a 1970s wing across the road, which also houses a large indoor swimming pool and health spa. Opt for the castle rooms with their wooden floors and traditional furnishings.

It is not unusual to make a post office out of an old palace, however, it is quite remarkable that an attractive palace hotel should develop out of an old post office. And this particular post office in Imst has even been sung about in a world-famous operetta by Carl Zeller, “Der Vogelhändler” (“The Birdseller”)!  Which makes sense, since this was once the bird-trade metropolis of Europe.

And as you sit out on the hotel’s beautiful terrace to enjoy an outstanding lunch or dinner, with the breathtaking panoramas of the Ötztal Alps constantly before your eyes, yet another and equally famous melody from Zeller’s operetta might well come to mind: “Roses from Tyrol …”
In short: If you have managed to keep some romance in your heart (and which guest of a castle hotel has not?), then here, in the verdant centre of this small and quite delightful Inntal town, you are certain to discover a level of bliss that will be quite to your taste. And while we are speaking of “taste”, even the cooking here at the old post office in Imst is quite legendary.
Schloss Sprengenstein, an estate from the fifteenth century, provides a virtually idyllic ambiance for earthly pleasures of every kind, with nary a single detail overlooked, from the castle oriel with its onion tower, to the wooden window shutters in red-white-red. The building’s interior looks less like a post office then it does a luxurious aristocratic abode, boasting stylish Biedermeier furnishings and valuable antiques.

And if, over the course of the centuries, Imst has earned the honorary title of the “Merano of the North”, this is owed in no small degree to wonderful Schloss Sprengenstein standing at its very heart.