Ellmau

Ellmau in winter

Ellmau (population just under 3,000 in 2024) is a small Tyrolean village in the heart of the Wilder Kaiser mountains. Visitors can travel to the top of Hartkaiser mountain via the Hartkaiserbahn funicular, the only of its type in the Ski Welt. The municipality is located in a summer and winter sports area and lives mainly from tourism ( 5000 guest beds).

Get in

By plane

Visitors normally fly to Innsbruck (INN ^IATA) 90 km away, Salzburg (SZG ^IATA) 75 km away, or Munich (MUC ^IATA) 152 km away; onward connections to Ellmau are by rail or shuttlebus.

By rail

Main line railway stations are in Sankt Johann in Tirol and Kufstein,

A local bus network runs west through Söll to Kufstein and east to Sankt Johann in Tirol.

By road

Ellmau is located to the south of B178, a road joining Salzburg in the east to Kufstein and Innsbruck to the west. The nearest autobahn is at Kufstein.

In the summer and winter tourist seasons there are buses between Going, Stanglwirt, Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser, Blaiken and Söll (Hohe Salve) for skiers or summer hikers. SkiWelt (+43 5333 400) operates a Skibus through the region.

Ellmau is accessible from Innsbruck and Salzburg via taxi. Munich offers car hire service.

Get around

Having a car gives the advantage of being able to travel around freely.

There are many bus services running throughout the area.

Do

The mountain "Der Wilde Kaiser" ("The Wild Emperor")

• Skiing
• Hiking
• two golf courses: "Kaisergolf" (9-hole) and "Golfplatz Wilder Kaiser" (27-hole)
• an adventure swimming pool (KaiserBad)
• a 10-seater gondola lift to the 1553-meter-high Hartkaiser with the children's playground Ellmi's Zauberwelt, connection to the large ski area Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental, which extends to the Hohe Salve in the west