Tannerhof

Bayrischzell sits at the end of the Leitzach valley in the Bavarian Alps, surrounded by the Wendelstein, the Rotwand and the mountain landscape of the Mangfall range. It is the kind of place the body recognises before the mind can articulate why: clean air at altitude, the sound of mountain streams, meadows in the brief Alpine summer, and in winter a stillness that the flatland cannot produce. The Tannerhof has been here since 1905, founded by the physician and naturopath Christian von Mengershausen with a question that has remained the same through four generations of the same family: what do people really need?
The answer has grown with the decades, but its character has not changed. The Tannerhof is not a luxury retreat that added a medical dimension for differentiation. It is a medical practice that built a place of beauty and rest around it, because healing requires both. The fourth generation of the von Mengershausen family, specialists in general medicine with additional qualifications in naturopathy, nutritional medicine and integrative diagnostics, continues to lead the medical practice on site, offering what the property describes as a new kind of consultation: one in which doctors talk, ask questions and listen, without appointment pressure, without waiting times, and with the time to draw up an individual diagnosis and treatment plan for each guest’s stay.

The diagnostic offer is comprehensive: medical history and physical examination, detailed findings report, standard laboratory, resting and exercise ECG, pulmonary function testing, bio-impedance analysis, ultrasound of vessels, abdomen, thyroid and heart, long-term blood pressure measurement, long-term ECG, exercise ergometry with performance diagnostics and individual training planning via Aeroscan. IHHT altitude training works with interval hypoxia and hyperoxia to regenerate the mitochondria and support immune function. Ozone infusions are part of the therapeutic repertoire alongside fascia and physiotherapy, breathing therapy, and psychological and holistic coaching. Cooperation with the Agatharied Academic Teaching Hospital provides access to gastroscopy, colonoscopy, cardiac catheterization, cardio-MR and full imaging when required.

Buchinger therapeutic fasting has been medically supervised at the Tannerhof for decades. The fasting week is led by the resident physicians with accompanying lectures, movement, individual consultation and the specific care that medically guided fasting requires. The six named health programmes, Body Detox, Mental Resilience, Longevity, Immune Booster, Aesthetics and Nutrition, each build on this diagnostic foundation and are individually tailored rather than standardised.

The culinary offer is Slowfood certified and organically certified, built around regional Bavarian ingredients and the slow food principle that good, honest cooking is itself a form of care. The Pool Restaurant runs a five-course Slowfood evening once a week. The daily wellness and movement programme included in every stay covers aqua gymnastics, Tai Chi, yoga, Pilates, Feldenkrais, breathing exercises, Yin yoga, guided mountain hikes and herb walks, and autogenic training. Thursday evenings bring concerts to the main hall. The Bade-Harpfe, the natural outdoor pool and sauna landscape with its view across the Bayrischzell valley, is the sensory centrepiece of the spa experience.