Amandus Jägerhaus
Five centuries, one website.
Freelance · solo
Built with
- Astro
The brief
A single holiday apartment in a 15th-century half-timbered house in the old town of Bad Urach. The site has to feel like the house itself — warm, weathered, full of character — and welcome guests from anywhere as naturally as the neighbour next door.
A house you can feel
Craft
The design carries the character of the house forward: a Garamond serif (Cormorant) for the big notes, Inter for the text, a palette of forest green, brass and cream. The page reads like a walk through chapters — large, restrained numerals, duotone photography with a fine grain, a house outline that draws itself as you scroll, and a custom lightbox gallery. Every motion honours prefers-reduced-motion.
Everything they need to hand — in six languages
For guests
On a phone, guests get exactly two things with no detour: a curated guide to the area — from the Urach waterfall to the spa — and frictionless contact by email, WhatsApp or Airbnb. No form, no hurdle. And the language switcher is always in reach: the site speaks six languages — German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Arabic — each fully translated, Arabic in true right-to-left with a mirrored layout. Search engines get clean hreflang alternates for every language.
Live availability, on a static site
Under the hood
The site is fully static — and still shows free dates in real time. At build it reads the house's real Airbnb calendar and renders twelve months of availability; a daily job rebuilds the site so the calendar stays current — no server, no database. On top: no cookies, no trackers, no map embed — and a small CMS the owners use to maintain all six languages themselves.
