Legendary in style, the Haus Hannes Schneider is a luxury Alpine townhouse in the heart of the Arlberg ski region. This very unique property is now for sale.
No expense has been spared with this beautiful townhouse set over five floors. The ground floor comprises an open plan Gaggenau kitchen and open plan living room complete with library, and open plan dining room. Also on this floor is a dedicated cinema room, dedicated children’s play area and veranda.
The first floor comprises three master suites. The main master suite has a luxurious double bed with ensuite bathroom and it’s own separate study. Both of the other two master suites also have luxurious double beds and ensuite bathrooms. The second floor has a further three master suites all with luxurious beds and ensuite bathrooms and one with it’s own separate study. The sixth master suite sleeps four and also comes with a gallery.
The two basement floors feature two storage rooms, a dedicated laundry room, a preparation kitchen, a guest toilet, a twin bedded nanny room with ensuite shower and a boot and ski rom. The upper basement also features the wellness facilities complete with sauna and spa.
- Sleeps 12 + 4
- 400 square metres, 6 Bedrooms and 1 Nanny Room (twinbedded)
- 16 Individual Beds & 16 Dining Table Seats
- 7 Bathrooms & 1 Additional Toilet
About Hannes Schneider:
“Europe’s fastest skier”. Hannes Schneider was one of the first people to discover a passion for spending the winter on a pair of skis and to consider snow a sporting challenge. From 1907, at just 17 years of age, he became Arlberg’s first ski instructor, revolutionising skiing with a method based on a system of stemming turns that came to be known as the Arlberg technique. Schneider’s personal style of skiing was very fast and agile, and he had an extraordinary, infectious enthusiasm for movement and acrobatic skill. Known as “Europe’s fastest skier”, he won one international ski race after another.
In 1928 – the same year his namesake Othmar Schneider was born, who was later to become the Austrian Olympic champion and founder of Kristiania Lech – Hannes Schneider, along with the Englishman and skiing pioneer Sir Arnold Lunn, set up the first Arlberg-Kandahar race of Arlberg Ski Club in St. Anton – a combination between downhill racing and slalom. Another legend in the making!
In 1939 Schneider and his family emigrated to the USA, where he took over a ski school in New Hampshire and built up an impressive ski resort in his own style on Mount Cranmore. Schneider died in 1955 in America. Three years earlier, in 1952, Othmar Schneider, by this time no longer simply a namesake but also a friend and skiing protégé of Hannes Schneider, won Austria’s first skiing gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Oslo. It was truly something to celebrate for the skiing pioneer from Stuben!
