The origins of the Dorfschänke date back to 1870, when Johann Faung – previously the tenant of the only pub in Mietraching, Maxhofen – bought a farm. There, he had set up an inn with a butcher’s shop. He was not a child of sorrow, as many illegitimate children can testify.
On April 9th 1878, he bought Sagmühle house no. 4 (now Zur Dorfschänke), tore down the old house and built a two-storey house with mirrored windows, which cost him 17,000 Mark. This huge debt led to the auction. The entire farm was auctioned off to Josef Donaubauer in 1884.
In the years that followed, the estate was passed down through several generations:
1889 from Josef Donaubauer to his son Max, 1921 to his son Max Tannerbauer and 1956 to Albert Tannerbauer, the son of Max Tannerbauer. In 1997, Rudolf and Ursula Mages, granddaughter of Max Tannerbauer, bought the house from the next generation, Peter Tannerbauer.
The house was thoroughly renovated and they remembered the builder, the ‘merry innkeeper of Mietraching’, and its original use as a pub. With the idea of continuing this tradition, the house became a pub, the Dorfschänke (“village pub”), in April 1998. After the house was run by tenants in the following years, the great-granddaughter of Max Tannerbauer, Melanie Mages, took over the pub in Mietraching in April 2011 – small in stature and with crooked feet she really isn’t, but a funny innkeeper for sure.
Kristina Mages