How was life in Hüttengesäß  200 years ago ? For sure we can tell about a hard working life on farms and factories all day long. But after the work was done,  the people went to a place to have a rest. They worked the whole day to keep the family and they where easily satisfied.
Day in, day out they had to feed the animals, milk the cows, work on the fields, harvestin wheat, rye and potatoes.In the wintertime they slaughtered and prepared sausages and made their own bread.The people were not very demanding, they had no TV or Radio and for that reason they met in a nice guesthouse and told stories of the good old days or played cards or sang.

Sometime during the middle of the last century the family with the name Zinkhan did not have any more direct descendants, so the brother in law of the innkeeper, Johann Heinrich Reidel, took the inn over. He was a gastronome, butcher, farmer and leader of the choral society, doing everything with haert and soul. In 1897 he had the hall with the half-timbered gable added th the main building and the floor of the hall was covered even with a high quality dance floor. The parlour and the small hall above had become to small for the festivities. The gymnast were accommodated in the new hall, the choral society sang there, the former country fair took also place in the inns. In 1892 even a "Champagne Ball" was organised for this occasion! More or less during the same time Reidel had a wooden skittlealley built in the area currently called the Marienstrasse. This modern sport from england was spreading very fast in germany and there are some of the older Hüttengesäßer inhabitants who still remembers the he was permitted as a small boy to straghten the skittles again and was paid a small amount of money for an evening.

The innkeeper bought the beer at the Langenselbolder Brewery Adler until 1896, from 1896 until 1910 at the Rheinische Beer Brewery in Mainz, then it was bought from the Hanauer Brewery Nicolay. The political authorities caused the innkepper some problems in 1906 because he considered his inn to be "Social Democratc". He would not let the imperial soldiers enter his inn. He was sentenced to pay a fine in the amount of 400 Marks. To pay this fine, he had to sell two cows.

Uniqueness in Hessen:
1993 the restaurant was completely rebuilt new and the fountain was found. The monument is protected by law. It was built around 1600.
You can look 9 m deep and you can see the water. In the early days they used the water for cooking and feeding the animals.
In a report of the local authority at 1830 in Hüttengesäß they counted around 36 wells of all farms near by, most of them were filled up with rubble.
This nice well here is just for decoration, but sometimes in the summertime we use the water for the garden.

In 1995 we went on cooperation with the organisation "Hessen à la carte" and at a competition of restaurants and hotels we won as one of the best restaurant of the whole country.