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Picture: Thomas Schneider.
After approximately 14 months of construction. The Bayrischer Bahnhof opened its gates again on July 19th, 1999 as a hotel & Gosebrauerei. Ingrid Biedenkopf, Gattin of the Saxonian Prime Minister opend the doors to the hotel. It has a become a beautiful landmark on the Leipziger landscape.
Picture: Grand opening of the Bayrischer Bahnhof.
And the home of a famous beer speciality: The original Leipziger Gose is brewed in the brewery - beside some other beers -. With full right one can state that the Bayrischer Bahnhof experiences one Renaissance.
As the name implies, the Gose originates from the city of Goslar.
According to the legend, already Kaiser Otto III. enjoyed it very much in the year 996. But it had not been officially mentioned in a document before 1470.
From the Harz Mountains the special beer travelled to the east.
There, in the principality of Anhalt it appealed to the "Alte Dessauer". And it was him who brought it to Leipzig in the year 1738 because he did not like the local beer.
Quickly the Gose found its home in the trade city and neither war nor customs barriers could stop the thirst for Gose in Leipzig. Only the short supplies in the German Democratic Republic put an end to the exotic beer.
But nonetheless the Gose had its renaissance already before the German reunification. And since the year 2000 the Gose is being brewed in the Bayerische Bahnhof in Leipzig.
