What will become of the "Gasthof Hetten" in Hohenpeissenberg?

Created: 12/08/2022, 2:00 p.m

By: Catherine Hauser

The Hohenpeissenberger traditional restaurant "Gasthof Hetten" has been closed for a few months.

Everyone is trying to find a solution © Gronau

The "Gasthof Hetten" belonged to Hohenpeissenberg for centuries.

The restaurant has been closed for a long time.

The owner and host wants to sell the inn and the surrounding area.

It is still unclear how to proceed.

Hohenpeissenberg – "The Hetten Inn" has a long tradition in Hohenpeissenberg.

In 1650, a Johann Finsterwalder received permission to run an inn in the "Haetten", as the hamlet was then called.

The carters could stop off in the inn and water their horses.

Later, King Ludwig II repeatedly passed the "Hetten" with his carriage and stayed there several times.

To commemorate this, there was a "König-Ludwig-Stüberl" in the "Gasthof Hetten" until it was closed.

The "Gasthof Hetten" has been owned by the Britzger family since 1934.

Sixtus Britzger bought the inn and the associated premises in 1934 after the innkeeper at the time had a fatal bicycle accident on the way to Peiting and it had become too difficult for his widow to continue running the inn, the associated farm and the associated butcher's shop .

The “Gasthof Hetten” has been part of life in Hohenpeissenberg for generations.

The inn has not only been valued in recent years for its good and inexpensive cuisine and has always been well frequented.

Not only Hohenpeissenbergers went to eat in the "Hetten", the guests came from all over the district to the traditional restaurant, which recently also housed a club and repeatedly made a name for itself with the notorious "Hettenparties".

Most recently, the owner Michael Britzger wanted to build holiday apartments in the venerable house and for a while had plans for a parking deck in the parking lot opposite.

According to the inn's website, the building has survived wars and fires.

Now his future is uncertain.

The restaurant has been closed for some time.

The owner wants to sell the building and the surrounding area.

It is very important to him, the municipal council and the municipality that this traditional restaurant, which has shaped the place, is preserved.

"That would be very important for the community," Mayor Thomas Dorsch recently told this newspaper.

"We are all looking together for a solution to reactivate this gastronomy in a conceivably difficult 'crisis environment'," he wrote in his greeting in the "Rigi-Echo" newsletter of the municipality of Hohenpeissenberg.

According to Dorsch, everyone involved is currently trying to find a solution so that there will be an inn again in the Hetten district.

Everyone is trying to find a solution