Historical background

At the beginning of the 1880's Moritz Faber, an industrialist and the director of the "Liesinger-Actien-Brewery", had a villa built for himself and his family. The villa was constructed as a country house in the typical Salzkammergut style of the times. The family spent its first summer vacation there in 1883. Every year the generous patron of the Gosau valley would invite the local inhabitants to a celebration in honor of Faber which was celebrated on the Emperor's birthday on August 18. Moritz Faber treated everyone to a rich snack and each school child received a cup. The old people in Gosau still reminisce about this celebration. Even Emperor Franz Joseph I who would spend his vacations in Bad Ischl was invited several times to go hunting in Gosau.

Between 1898 and 1904 the hunting lodge was renovated. The end of World War 1 and the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had negative consequences for the Faber family. At the end of 1919, Moritz Faber announced that he would be forced to sell the villa due to new financial circumstances. During the war the villa was used by the employment service agancy as a home for women workers. The villa was subsequently seized as German property by the American occupation force.

In 1949 the estate was sold to a Viennese lawyer by the son of the last legal owner who had in the meantime died in emigration.

In 1951 Alois Wohlmuther, the owner of a sawmill, bought the
Villa Faber. In 1961 his son-in-law, Gottfried Koller, repaired the postwar damage to the villa and began operating it as a bed-and-breakfast hotel. Gradually the villa was renovated to meet the needs of future guests. In 1991 the last major restoration work took place at the villa- now under the ownership of the second generation. Today, Landhas Koller, one of the architectural gems of the Salzkammergut region, continues to cater to its guests with great dedication.