The Jagdhof was certainly the most dazzling of the once so numerous inns in Taufkirchen. Built in 1935 by a butcher from Giesing in the Deisenhofen forest, the forest inn with its spacious beer garden became a popular destination after the war. The chic Munich society also discovered the idyllic location for themselves, and even Franz Josef Strauss invited guests to the forest in Taufkirchen for political parties. In the 1980s, however, the Jagdhof began to decline. After the building had been used as a hostel for asylum seekers in the meantime, the municipality bought it in 1998 in order to set up a tourist restaurant there again. These plans fell through, not least because of the location in the water protection area, and after years of debate the inn was demolished in 2010.
Michael Müller does not only deal theoretically with entertaining guests in Taufkirchen. The picture shows him handing out food at the Johannidult in the Wolfschneiderhof local history museum.
(Photo: Claus Schunk)
With its eventful history without a happy ending, the Jagdhof is representative of a number of inns that shaped life in Taufkirchen for almost a century – and of which there are hardly any traces left today. Local curator Michael Müller has made it his task to make this visible. He has researched the history of the local inns and is now presenting his results in a lecture at the adult education center. “Especially the economies in the villages were extremely important for social life,” says the local curator. That’s where club life took place, that’s where politics was made, and that’s where the mostly rural population met in the evenings – “for a beer after work.”
To a certain extent, the freedom of trade introduced after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 acted as the starting signal for the pub culture in Taufkirchen and elsewhere. It led to a wave of founders, says Müller. Or as the eyewitness August Koch put it in his memoirs, slightly ironically: “In order to save the ‘long way’ to Taufkirchen, all the villages belonging to the community hurried to get their own economy.” For example, in 1874 the Gasthaus zum Bock was built in Bergham, which from 1917 was called the Gasthaus von Anton Filser. And in Potzham, Sebastian Kottmüller, the miller Wastl from Unterhaching, built the Adam’sche inn two years later. Around the turn of the century there were seven inns in Taufkirchen – including the Sandmaiersche Bierwirtschaft in Westerham.
It was in a former shoemaker’s workshop on Münchner Straße, which Leonhard Sandmaier acquired in 1879. A little later, he also bought the mill from Zaunmüller, whereby he was particularly interested in the associated real right to serve beer, as Michael Müller explains. “It enabled him to open an economy.” This developed into a thriving inn before the owner and name changed in 1938. From then on, the restaurant traded as “Fohlenhof” and tried its hand as an “after-work café” – with moderate success.
The inns in the villages were mostly family businesses, which were often run by farmers as a sideline, says Müller. There was a tangible family quarrel around the “Häuserl am Roa” inn in Winning. There the so-called boy farmer Georg Aichner built a house at the northern border of his garden around 1865 – presumably as a retirement home after he fell out with his son, whose name was also Georg. In the building on the Roa, i.e. on the Rain, he then ran an inn. At the same time, his son also opened a restaurant in the Knabenbauerhaus a little later, but it went so badly that it was closed in 1877. Meanwhile, the “Häuserl am Roa”, which still stands today, survived until the turn of the century despite several changes of ownership.
In the middle of the 20th century, inns began to die out in Taufkirchen as well. “The reasons were varied,” says Müller. In addition to social changes, the population structure in Taufkirchen has also changed, particularly as a result of the construction of the Am Wald housing estate in the early 1970s. In addition, foreign restaurants have increasingly come as competition – “first Italian, then Greek, then Asian,” says the home caretaker. Of the seven inns that used to be there, only one is left today: the Trenner inn, which can look back on more than 300 years of history. As a so-called tavern – with the right to tavern awarded by the sovereign, a kind of restaurant concession – the inn on Münchner Straße is said to be the been a social meeting place in town, says the home caretaker. The restaurant also benefited from its location, “right next to the church, not far from the maypole and the war memorial”.
The Gasthof Trenner is the last surviving inn in Taufkirchen.
(Photo: private)
The Trenner, which has seen several changes of ownership over the years and has borne its current name for a good hundred years, has been leased since 1964 and has been run by the landlords Petra and Peter Bender since 1987. “They managed to keep operations going,” says Michael Müller, “even during the difficult corona pandemic”.
“Wirtshauskultur in Taufkirchen” is the name of the lecture by home caregiver Michael Müller next Tuesday in the VHS building on Ahornring. Start is at 7 p.m. Admission to the event is free; Interested parties can also follow the lecture online. A registration at www.vhs-taufkirchen.de is requested.