He was the lord of the fish. A master fisherman once oversaw what local fishermen pulled out of Bavarian waters. And he had to make sure that char, whitefish, trout, zander and pike arrived fresh every Friday at the ducal, later royal table at the court in Munich. At the fish-rich Würmsee, as Lake Starnberg was then called, there were even two of these officials, one responsible for the upper lake, based in Ambach, the other for the lower lake in Possenhofen. Both later received liquor licenses, and so it happened that for a long time two restaurants by the lake called “Zum Fischmeister” served day trippers from the city.
Possenhofen: Inn for fish master Karl Schauer – Munich
