Gasthaus
Gasthaus 1), (German, lit. guest house, inn) a house where one can get food, drink, and lodging for money; the owner of an inn is called innkeeper (Ger. Gastwirt).
Gasthäuser in Miniature
- Gasthaus »Krone«, 1:87 Busch 1532
- Alpengasthaus zum Almdudler, 1:87 Faller 273
- Gasthaus Linde, 1:87 Faller B-251
- Gasthaus Chiemgau, 1:87 Faller 274
- Gasthaus Enzian, 1:87 Faller 275
- Klosterschänke Höningen, 1:87 Faller B-352
- Klosterschänke, 1:87 Faller 131284
- Altstadt: Gasthaus Krone, 1:87 Faller 415
- Gasthaus Sonne, mit Laube, 1:87 Faller 130438
- Gasthaus Rößle, Markgräfler Land, 1:87 Kibri 38744
- Gasthaus zur Post, 1:87 Kibri 8408
- Berggasthaus Steinbock, Grevasalvas, 1:87 Kibri 38811
- Dorfgasthaus zur Traube, 1:87 POLA 531
- Restaurant, Spirituosenhandel, Café, 1:87 POLA 570
- Britischer Pub, 1:87 POLA 537
- Gasthaus zur Schmiede, 1:87 Vero 54 59370/129/00899
- Dorfgasthaus, 1:87 VERO 54 58370/160/00757
- Gasthaus, 1:87 Vero 54 58370/129/00771
- Berggasthaus Pöhlberg (Erzgebirge), 1:87 Vero 54 58370/160/00747
- Gasthaus zum Ochsen, 1:87 Vollmer 43838
- Gasthaus Lamm, 1:87 Vollmer 43645
- Gasthaus Le Montagnard, 1:87 Vollmer 49233
- Wirtshaus (Fachwerkhaus), 1:87 Vollmer 20817
- Gasthaus »Krone«, 1:120 Busch 8779
- Gasthaus (Fachwerkhaus), 1:120 Vero 54 58370/129/00771
- Gasthaus zur Eisenbahn, mit Biergarten, 1:160 Kibri 37114
- Gasthaus zum Riesen, Miltenberg, 1:160 Kibri 37117
- Gasthaus zur Post, 1:160 POLA 229
- Musikalienhandlung, Gasthaus, Buchhandlung, 1:160 POLA 297
- Gasthaus zur Schmiede, 1:160 Vero 54 59370/129/00899
- Gasthaus mit Metzgerei und Inneneinrichtung, 1:160 Vollmer 47711
- Gasthaus Lamm, 1:160 Vollmer 47645
- Gasthaus, 1:160 Vollmer 7755
- Gasthaus Kupfer, 1:220 Faller 282793
Gasthaus, 2) (Gasthof, Ger. hotel), in the narrower sense, a house which has the licence (publican‘s licence) to accommodate strangers overnight and to provide stables for their horses; in this respect, it is distinguished from restaurants, coffee houses, and taverns (Krügen and Kneipen) in the country, where the houses which have the licence to offer accommodation are called public houses (Wirtshäuser). The most distinguished inns in large cities are called hotels or courts, or if only accommodation without basic necessities is provided, hôtel garnis. To distinguish them, inns usually have signs or a company name taken from people, cities, animals, trees, flowers, etc.; only hotels tend to bear the nickname of a country, e.g. Hôtel de Bavière, de France, de Saxe, Sächsischer Hof, etc., or of a city, such as City of Berlin, City of Petersburg, or of the owner. In such inns, meals are served either table d‘hôte or à la carte, i.e., in portions. Service is almost always provided by waiters; only in a few regions, e.g., Bavaria, Austria, France, and Sweden, is it provided by waitresses, except in the best inns. In countries where freedom of trade has not been introduced, the number of inns is usually limited to a city or district, so that while the hospitality licence can be transferred or sold from one establishment to another, a new licence cannot be granted to anyone without the consent of the previous innkeeper.
Inns are an ancient institution, as they were not a necessity due to the hospitality practiced everywhere in civilized countries in antiquity (see also under freedom of hospitality). Only where there were no dwellings, such as in deserts, were such houses necessary for travelers and traders. Hence, they appeared early on along military roads through deserts in the Orient, but only as lodgings for people and livestock, while the traveler himself had to carry his own necessities. At least, cases were rare where there was a innkeeper in such a house who provided travel necessities for a fee. Such an inn was called a malon if it consisted of only one or a few rooms; neruth, the larger ones, equipped for entire caravans, built in a square, with a large courtyard and water tank in the middle. This custom still exists in the Orient; the smaller inns are called mensil, the large khans or caravanserais; only where European tourists made their way did inns arise. Such buildings also occur in later antiquity in Greek lands and even in the desert from Jericho to Jerusalem under the name pandocheion. In Roman lands, such a house equipped for lodging in cities and on country roads was called a deversorium, while wine and dining houses were called camponae, although food was usually sold to take out. Common people ate in cookshops, popinae. Educated people in Rome sought entertainment in the tabernae of barbers and booksellers, just as in Athens the leschen provided an opportunity for this. In the smaller, more remote towns of Spain and Greece, strangers have to bring all their food to the inns and have them prepared there. The best information about the furnishings of inns in various cities and regions can be found in the travel guides by Murray (in English) and Baedeker.
Gasthaus, 3) in some areas a hospital where pilgrims, the poor and the sick are admitted.
Source: Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon 4. Auflage 1857–1865