He was the lord of the fish. A fish master once oversaw what the local fishermen pulled from a Bavarian body of water. And he had to ensure that char, whitefish, trout, zander and pike were fresh every Friday for the ducal, and later royal, table at the court in Munich. At the fish-rich Würmsee, as Lake Starnberg was called at the time, 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 there were two restaurants on the lake called “Zum Fischmeister” that catered to tourists from the city.
Possenhofen on Lake Starnberg: This is how the restaurant “Zum Fischmeister” – Munich cooks
