Current operating information
Restaurant: no regular opening hours
The restaurant currently has no regular opening hours. Service for hotel guests also depends on availability and staffing. External guests may be served occasionally and at irregular times depending on availability and staffing.
The restaurant may open for only a few hours, on individual days or on several days. Whether food is available in addition to drinks also depends on availability.
Is our restaurant open today?
Our restaurant is closed today.
When the restaurant is open, a clearly visible “Geöffnet” (“Open”) sign in the window also indicates this on site. The hotel remains open.
Parking spaces at the property:
The parking spaces at the property are intended for hotel operations and overnight guests. They are not public parking spaces.
Butchery: active operations are currently suspended
The butchery has not been deregistered. For staffing reasons, shop sales, production and slaughtering are suspended until further notice. There are currently no sales, including through the restaurant. There are also no online sales, event catering, other catering services or production.
Current hotel operation: 8 guest rooms
Today, the main focus is our hotel operation with 8 guest rooms. Room enquiries, reservations and arrival arrangements are handled exclusively by telephone and in German. E-mail is intended for general enquiries only. Payment is cash only.
Older house brochure – house-internal dating about 1982–1984
The first two images belong to the older of the two surviving house brochures. The approximate dating to 1982–1984 follows the current house chronology. The brochure pages shown here do not themselves carry a printed year. Click or tap an image to open a larger view.
Older house brochure
house-internal dating about 1982–1984
house-internal dating about 1982–1984
Information securely readable from the older brochure
- Business description
- “Gasthaus-Metzgerei Zum goldenen Ochsen”
- Owner wording
- “Familie Hermann Mayer”
- Address
- 7320 Göppingen-Hohenstaufen, using the former four-digit German postal code
- Telephone
- (07165) 8062
- Accommodation
- 17 beds; hot and cold running water; shower/WC
- Restaurant capacities
- Rooms for 24, 50 and 60 people, together 130 seats
- Other wording
- References to parties, family celebrations, excursion groups and coach parties
- Weekly closing day
- Monday
The former four-digit postal code 7320 is an independent chronological clue: this brochure belongs to the period before the introduction of Germany’s five-digit postal codes in 1993. That makes the house-internal attribution to the early 1980s plausible, although the brochure alone does not prove the precise years 1982–1984.
Later house brochure – house-internal dating about 1999–2001
The following three images belong to the later house brochure. Its approximate dating to 1999–2001 likewise follows the current house chronology; no printed publication year is visible on the pages shown here.
Later house brochure
house-internal dating about 1999–2001
house-internal dating about 1999–2001
house-internal dating about 1999–2001
Information securely readable from the later brochure
- Business description
- “Hotel · Gasthof · Metzgerei ‘Goldener Ochsen’”
- Owner wording
- “Familie Hermann Mayer”
- Address
- Ailstraße 1 · 73037 Göppingen-Hohenstaufen
- Telephone
- (07165) 8062
- Former fax
- (07165) 1728
- Butchery
- The brochure advertises a butcher’s shop with in-house slaughtering
- Restaurant capacities
- Rooms for 24, 50 and 60 people, together 130 seats
- Hotel rooms
- Shower, WC and television in the room
- Room rules
- Pets and smoking were expressly not permitted in the hotel rooms advertised at the time
- Garden terrace
- 90 seats
- Coach parties
- Telephone advance notice requested on 07165/8062
- Restaurant wording
- “Restaurant am Montag Ruhetag” – restaurant closed on Mondays
The five-digit postal code 73037 proves that this brochure dates from after the 1993 German postal-code reform. It therefore supports attribution to a clearly later period, but it does not by itself prove the years 1999–2001.
What changed between the two brochures
The comparison therefore shows more than two different designs. It documents which parts of the business were emphasised publicly at different times. Some details remain strikingly stable – especially telephone number 8062 and the restaurant capacities – while the language, technical equipment and style of guest information change noticeably.
Telephone, restaurant and fax numbers through the years
Telephone number 07165 8062 belongs to a longer surviving number history of the house. The local number 2 is documented for the “Ochsen” from 1894; from a later period, the number 262 is documented. This is followed by 8062, which remains the hotel’s main telephone number today. The evidence for no. 2 from 1894 documents early telephone accessibility, but it does not establish the exact installation date of the connection.
At various times, the property also had several separate telephone connections. These included the former separate restaurant number 07165/1023 and the fax number 07165/1728. During later technical changes, the various connections could not simply be merged into one single number.
The former restaurant number 1023 and fax number 1728 no longer exist. A separate restaurant number, 07165 9295708, was used later, while the hotel’s main number 07165 8062 remained separate.
Because the house had three or four separate connections during parts of its history, individual telephone numbers are not sufficient on their own to prove a particular brochure year. They are useful historical clues, but they must be considered together with postal codes, design, equipment and the house records.
What securely supports the dating
- Brochure 1
- The current house-internal attribution to about 1982–1984 remains in place. The document itself securely shows only that the four-digit postal code 7320 belongs to the period before Germany’s five-digit postal codes were introduced in 1993.
- Brochure 2
- The current house-internal attribution to about 1999–2001 likewise remains in place. The securely visible five-digit postal code 73037 proves a date after the 1993 postal-code reform. Telephone, fax and restaurant numbers provide additional clues but do not permit an exact year to be established, especially because several separate telephone connections existed in the house.
Historical brochure information is not current service information
This page documents earlier operating conditions. Information in the brochures – for example 17 beds, television in the room, 130 restaurant seats, 90 terrace seats, a butcher’s shop with in-house slaughtering, Monday closing or the former fax number – therefore does not describe the present-day operation unless it is expressly identified as current information.
Today, Hotel Goldener Ochsen operates 8 guest rooms. Room enquiries, reservations and arrival arrangements are handled exclusively by telephone and in German; e-mail is intended for general enquiries only and payment is cash only. Current hotel information is provided on the present hotel and rooms page. Current information about the restaurant is published above on this page and may change according to availability and staffing.
Note on the image display
The enlarged image view is provided solely to make the surviving brochure pages easier to examine. Historical business descriptions, telephone numbers and service information are intentionally reproduced in their original context. Where a date is not directly established by the document, this is stated explicitly on the page.