Here it was sometimes with the horse to the counter
Created: 01/17/2022, 08:00 p.m
By: Doris Schmid
A bit of fun is a must: Martha and Erwin Friedrich (2nd and 3rd from left) behind the counter of their inn.
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In our series "Historic Taverns" we present former Geretsrieder restaurants in no particular order.
The Friedrichs ran an inn with a butcher's shop in Stein.
Geretsried – you were in the middle of life, you had built a life for yourself.
Martha and Erwin Friedrich, parents of a young daughter, ran an inn with a butcher's shop in Zhalositz in northern Bohemia.
Then came the war.
The family was torn apart and expelled in 1945.
The Friedrichs found each other again and had to start over.
They did that in Geretsried.
"Our grandmother first worked in the Kneisl chocolate factory," remembers granddaughter Eva Rugg (62).
The grandfather kept his head above water with odd jobs, adds her sister Ilse Spies (61).
In 1951, the butcher ventured into self-employment again.
He leased a building at the end of what is now Walchenseeweg, which he was able to buy and convert eight years later.
Butcher's shop in the inn: "Sausages were made in the large hall"
Until the conversion, the butcher's shop was located in the kitchen of the inn.
“Sausages were made in the large hall,” Rugg looks back.
Later, the economy, slaughter room, sausage shop and living area were separated from each other.
In the kitchen, Martha Friedrich was in charge, behind the counter stood both landlords and employees.
Beer from the Paulaner brewery was served.
Contact point in Stein: At the end of today's Walchenseeweg there was an inn with a butcher's shop.
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The business was a family business, everyone lent a hand.
Daughter Ilse stood behind the sausage and meat counter in the butcher's shop on Saturdays, and the two granddaughters were allowed to help out.
"There were no cash registers back then," says Rugg.
"You had to calculate everything in your head." Meat and sausages were wrapped in paper.
The individual amounts were noted one below the other with a pencil.
"Then I was allowed to add up," says Rugg.
"Whether that was always true - but I liked doing it." Almost every Saturday there was roast pork from grandma.
"Then we all cleaned the butcher's shop together," says Spies.
"But that wasn't a must, it was fun for us to be able to help."
A trio of cowboys invade the inn with horses
The inn had a television – still black and white at the time.
Helmut Langhals, half-brother of the two sisters, remembers the broadcast of the soccer World Cup in 1954 very well.
Carnival celebrations took place in the large hall.
Sometimes there was a Kasperl theater for children.
"I always had to play the witch, I hated that," says the 73-year-old with a laugh.
This anecdote is also unforgettable: “Some Geretsrieders had their horses near Ascholding,” says the Geretsrieder.
“Once they rode to Geretsried in cowboy gear and with a revolver – straight into the inn with the horses.” The trio had a drink and then said goodbye.
"There was no police to be seen," says Langhals with a wink.
Proud grandparents: Erwin and Martha Friedrich with their granddaughters Eva and Ilse.
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The grandchildren do not know exactly how long the grandparents ran the inn.
Probably from the early 1960s.
At some point it became too much for the grandfather and he leased the inn, the sisters agree.
According to hearsay, someone wanted to turn the inn into a gourmet restaurant - without success.
There is also said to have been a western saloon there.
Then Willi Weizer ran the restaurant, later an innkeeper named Imro, who then emigrated to the USA and opened a Bohemian restaurant there before Hans Jankovic took over the inn until it was demolished.
series
In our series "Historic Taverns" we present former Geretsrieder restaurants in no particular order.
For example, Old Austria or the Gasthaus Korb.
Anyone who can contribute information and photos should send an email to redaktion@isar-loisachbote.de.
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