Sustainability

We look forward to spoiling you with fresh, Baden cuisine made from local ingredients. Our aim is to preserve our old inn tradition and cook with traditional recipes.

In addition to our well-known specialities, such as Maultaschen, veal head or the always freshly caught trout, our menu contains constantly changing dishes depending on the season and market offerings.

Our menu has always had a regional flavour, as we like to use game (roe deer, venison, wild boar) from local hunters. Our Black Forest trout has been our trademark for more than 50 years and always comes from local fish farms, preferably from Alpirsbach, and is kept in our personally managed ponds until it is prepared.

Wherever possible, we source our produce from producers and suppliers in the surrounding area.

The bakery is next door and in the neighbouring village we support farm shops such as Querfeldein and Schababerle. We pay particular attention to our jams. They are always home-made and the fruit comes from our own fields, where plums, cherries, pears, apples, mirabelle plums, quinces and apricots grow. The surplus fruit is processed into fine distillates in our distillery.

We also pay a great deal of attention to our environment. Long before our climate dominated the front pages of the media, we were thinking about sustainability. Which is why we use the resources available to us very carefully for economic and ecological reasons.

We have been operating a combined heat and power plant (cogeneration) since 2003. We use this to generate approx. 70 % of our heat requirements and approx. 35 % of our electricity requirements in an environmentally friendly way. We also generate more than half of our hot water requirements from the waste heat of our cooling systems in an environmentally friendly way.

Since 2009, a photovoltaic system installed on the roof of the building has been supplying environmentally friendly electricity (approx. 6000 kw/h per year).

We would be delighted if you would support us in this endeavour so that we can all continue to enjoy an intact landscape in the Black Forest Nature Park for a long time to come.