Bräustüberl Tegernsee

The story of the Bräustüberl

Founded as a small "Bräustibl" for thirsty Bräunners, first the Tegernsee monastic brewery and later the Herzoglich Bavarian brewery, the Tegernseer Bräustüberl has long been one of the most famous economies in Bavaria. Characterized above all by the complexity of its guests, who created a unique climate of preserving tradition and tolerant openness early on: During the reign of King Max I Joseph, also the first Wittelsbach brewer in Tegernsee, locals met here on European nobility, followed by summer visitors and artists, beautiful, rich, important and quite normal.

In Bräustüberl found - and fell in love - almost all. At least those who appreciate the real. Because the Bräustüberl and its regulars have never bowed. Peaceful, Bavarian, hearty and cozy, it is in this Tegernseeisch-Altbayrischen temple of tradition, above all, always a (H) place of true communication from person to person, where you look at and laugh at, without distinction of the purse, of the title, the origin and the religion.

Churfürstliche Conzession zur Bierverschleiß "since 1675

February 22, 1675 - the year on the plaque next to the tavern leads into the reign of Tegernsee's great abbot Bernhard Wenzl, who came from near Salzburg and the monastery Tegernsee from 1673 to 1700 headed. "Bernardus Abbas", who - with the year MDCLXXX (1680) - is also immortalized on the central column opposite the Bräustüberl entrance, was the one who, on the advice of his cellarer, brought the brewing right from Holzkirchen to Tegernsee.

It was not about the beer consumption of the monks themselves; for on the tables in the refectory were mostly products from their own vineyards in the Wachau and in South Tyrol. The capable Cellerar might rather have calculated that in a self-governing operation, the monastery would not have to share the profit with an operator and the brewery could make such a significant contribution to the cost of the monastery.

Profitable for the monastery was the so-called "beer wear", ie the public bar and the sale to the innkeepers. The authorities, on the other hand, kept strict control over this; because for the sold beer a tax had to be paid.

The then reigning Elector Ferdinand Maria was the Tegernsee monastery although friendly connected, but the state budget, of course, always needed money. Thus, Abbot Bernhard managed "nit without tricks and bad luck" to transfer the brewing and serving rights from Holzkirchen to Tegernsee. On February 22, 1675, the time had come: The monastery received the long-awaited "Churfürstliche Conzession zur Bierverschleiß" in Tegernsee.