The town of Ried was once better blessed with inns than it is now. Franz Litzlbauer, former director of the Ried Commercial Academy and expert on the Ried pub scene, has dealt with the history of the inn in the town of Ried. He did a historical tour of the inn through Ried for us:
More than 100 years ago, some young sons of Ried citizens wanted to know how the inns in Ried were doing. In the “interest of tourism and alcohol consumption” they visited 45 (!) inns, wine and coffee houses and recorded their “control activities” in a record (available in the Folklore House). Many of these taverns from the time of this “tavern analysis” 100 years ago have long since disappeared. Or does anyone remember “Hotel Huber”, “Wageneders Gasthaus” or “Maiers Gasthaus” that were located on the main square?
Clear-cutting in Bahnhofstrasse
How does it look in recent history, which traditional restaurants can no longer be found in the business register?
There was a real clear-cutting of taverns in the Bahnhofstrasse. In the 1960s and 1970s, every young person probably went to the “Café Auleitner” for five o’clock tea. Hearty home cooking was cooked in the “border cellar” of the Leitner family before it was left to waste in a Schnitzelland. In the Gasthaus Hattinger, vulgo “Zur Stadt München” the taps have been closed for a long time, but one establishment still reminds of this time.
The “Wirtshaus Weinhäupl” was widely appreciated with a beautiful garden and an excellent goulash. People like to stop off at the “Zeilingerwirt” after a train journey. At the end of Bahnhofstraße in the station building, the best Wiener Schnitzel in the city was served by the “Fuchsl” until a few years ago.
Some still remember the inn “Zur Lehmgrube” on Frankenburgerstrasse, which ended in “Vietnamese”. Likewise, the inn “Zur Schweiz”, once with a bowling alley and guest garden, was taken over by a “Chinese”. A few years ago, the inn “Zum Auerhahn” closed in Lubergasse, the premises of which almost had the character of a living room. In the Wildfellnerstraße you went to the “Wein Pauly”, or better known to the “Stadtheurigen”.
The regulars’ tables at the “Mauthner” in the Volksfeststraße were legendary, with a bowling alley, extra room, outdoor dining area and Fred Kappel as the competent host. Gasthaus Bubeck (Froschaugasse), Gasthaus “Zum Goldenen Stern”, Gasthaus Scheiringer, Gasthaus Moser – both on Kapuzinerberg – are other inns that no longer exist.
For the “Merzendorfer Gasthaus” or “Weinhaus Merzendorfer” on the main square – with beautiful wall wood paneling – it was said in old records that the service was carried out by a “very delicate and slender waitress”.
Other well-known names on the main square, such as “Wirtshaus zur Hölle” (later Platzlwirt, then Tiroler Bua), Hotel Gärner, Gasthaus Eichlseher or “Zum Weißen Rössl” (the inn was previously called “Zum Erzherzog Albrecht”), are fondly remembered. In the Rainerstraße there was the “Unfried”, “Fellner Wirt”, Bäckerwirt, a wine bar and the Winklmayr inn. And one asks oneself today: What is actually going on with the “Kaiser Toni”, vulgo “Gasthof zur Stadt Ried”? The “Bauböck??s im Kaiserhof” has now been closed for two years.
This excursion into the more recent past of Rieder inn events ends with Franz Stelzhamer’s regular inn on Stelzhamerplatz, the “Brunnhuber”, which he – it is said – often left annoyed.
Source: Nachrichten
