Bogner Aste in Mils, near Innsbruck, can be booked for seminars, team days, company parties and weddings for up to 90 guests. The farm hut on the Gnadenwald plateau opens only when it is booked, so your group has the place to itself.
Seminars and company events
The hosts present the hut as a place for workshops and meetings away from the office. The formats named on the official site are seminars, workshops, team trainings, executive retreats, product presentations, talks and readings. Technical equipment is adapted to each event, so the brief you send should say what you need. Incentive programs are also listed, and the family can assemble outdoor activities around the meadows and woods as a side program.
Weddings and receptions
The hut is rented exclusively to one wedding party. The family runs the planning from start to finish, with decoration ideas, themes, musicians and artists, and a ceremony speaker. Free ceremonies take place in the festival garden, or in the hay barn on a rainy day, where up to 90 people fit. The same rooms serve receptions and private parties in spring, autumn and winter.
Rooms and capacities
The hall (Saal) takes 40 to 90 people and is used for celebrations, seminars and company events. The lounge (Stube) takes 20 to 40 people and doubles as a dance floor with space for a DJ or band and a large bar. The hay barn (Heustadel) holds up to 90 people for a ceremony. The terrace is open from March to November. It has standing tables for an aperitif, a grill buffet, and a glazed section with tables and benches for up to 40. A glazed veranda is available for smokers when the event is kept smoke-free. The festival garden and a meadow of 20,000 square meters complete the outdoor space.
Catering
The hosts cook themselves. Dishes are made from products of their own farm, from the distillery, the herb garden, the fields and the meadows, in a farm-to-table approach. The range goes from a cold plate to multi-course menus and grilled specialties, and a menu is drawn up for each event. The family also runs a distillery that produces fruit spirits from Tyrol.
History and setting
The Bogner family has owned the Erbhof Bogner and the Gasthof Bogner in Absam since 1722. In 1872 an ancestor bought the meadow below the Walder chapel together with a small hut, and the spot has carried the name Bogner Aste ever since. In 1994 the current host, Hubert Strasser, took over the property from a great-aunt. He and his wife Verena Strasser rebuilt the old lower alpine pasture hut and still use the land for farming.
Getting there
The address is Bogner-Aste-Weg 1, 6068 Mils. The official site says the hut is reached via Absam, Mils and Gnadenwald. Parking is available on site, and vehicles can stay overnight and be collected around noon the next day.
