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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.
Two cards combine a larger view of Hohenstaufen with a prominently inset image of the former “Ochsen”. Their exact date cannot be established from the front sides alone; considered together with surviving backs, however, they are important evidence of how the house was presented to the public at the time.
Evidential value: both cards show that the “Ochsen” was deliberately highlighted as a distinct element within a wider view of Hohenstaufen. The house therefore appears not merely as a building, but as part of the period’s tourist and hospitality-related presentation of the village.
The backs are especially valuable for the house history because they directly combine the business description, the owner’s name and the telephone number. The two cards showing number 2 also preserve a variant spelling of the family name in one printed version.
One card clearly reads: “Gasthaus und Metzgerei z. Ochsen – Bes.: Hermann Mayer – Telef. Nr. 2.” Another printed version uses the spelling “Hermann Maier” while otherwise conveying essentially the same information. The difference in spelling is documented here as a feature of the surviving card; it is not interpreted as evidence of a change of owner.
The later back reads “Gasthof u. Metzgerei z. goldenen Ochsen – Bes. Hermann Mayer – Telefon 262”. The postcard collection therefore documents two different stages in the house’s historical telephone accessibility.
Cards 3 to 10 are deliberately given neutral captions. Without additional secure dating evidence or clearly readable text, a more precise chronological attribution would be speculative. They nevertheless form part of the visual record of the house and its surroundings.
The multi-view postcard explicitly labels one panel “Gasthaus z. Ochsen” and presents the house alongside other Hohenstaufen motifs. The colourised postcard carries the clearly readable wording “Gasthaus z. Ochsen v. Carl Mayer” in the inset showing the house. It is therefore direct evidence linking the house with Carl/Karl Mayer. Independently of this postcard, the house chronology securely documents Carl/Karl Mayer for 1907–1919. The card itself does not permit a more precise date within those years and does not establish the beginning or end of his period as operator or owner.
Important for dating: telephone no. 2 is already documented from 1894, before Carl/Karl Mayer. It must therefore not be used to date the beginning of his period at the “Ochsen”.
On the artistic postcard, the wording “Hohenstaufen 21. Mai 1877” is visible at the bottom. This date is expressly understood here as referring to the depicted or dated view. It is not proof that the surviving postcard itself was printed in 1877.
Several historical sources record the “Ochsen” in Hohenstaufen with the very short local telephone number 2. This number is documented for the “Ochsen” from 1894. The postcard backs shown here later connect that number directly with the inn and butchery and with the name Hermann Mayer. The 1894 evidence establishes early telephone accessibility, but not the exact installation date of the connection.
Another postcard back already gives 262. This provides direct evidence within the collection of a later stage in the house’s telephone history.
Later surviving advertising material records 8062. The hotel can still be reached today on +49 7165 8062. The postcards therefore form part of a longer telephone-number history visible across several generations.
Telephone numbers are useful chronological evidence, but they are not a complete dating method. A change of number may have had technical or organisational causes, and the house had several separate telephone connections during parts of its history. A single card must therefore not be used automatically to assign an exact publication year. In particular, telephone no. 2, documented from 1894, must not be used to date the beginning of Carl/Karl Mayer’s period.
Historic postcards can sometimes be dated from a postmark, handwritten date, publisher or series information, a business description, an owner’s name, a telephone number or architectural details. Not every one of these features, however, permits an exact year to be established.
This page therefore treats as secure only information that is actually visible on the surviving cards or has already been established independently in the house records. Unknown publication dates are deliberately left open.
For the Carl Mayer postcard, 1907–1919 is the independently established house chronology, not a printing date read from the postcard itself. Telephone no. 2 is already documented from 1894 and therefore cannot be used to date the beginning of the Carl Mayer period.
On the artistic postcard, “Hohenstaufen 21. Mai 1877” refers to the depicted or dated view. It does not prove that the surviving postcard itself was manufactured or printed on 21 May 1877.
The enlarged image view is provided solely to make the historical cards easier to examine. Fronts and backs remain together in the collection because inscriptions and reverse sides can provide important additional historical evidence. Historic business descriptions and telephone numbers are reproduced as source material and must not automatically be read as information about the present-day operation. Today, the hotel operates 8 guest rooms; current room information is provided only on the present-day rooms page.