Beer hall

A beer Palace is a restaurant form that was popular especially in the Germany of the 19th century. In brewery cities such as Munich, Dortmund or Berlin emerged halls of up to 1500 m² surface, often with connected breweries with cozy Braustuben.

The palaces arose in the course of the romance, the rising national consciousness and the associated recourse to the Middle Ages, when the beer was acceptable as a drink even higher social classes. Especially the breweries built representative buildings which reminded in magnitude to industrial buildings and should be able to accommodate all the people and all social classes.

In an intentionally minimalist historicist style, often in the decoration with ironic connotations references provided in " old German " drinking habits, these buildings often developed on important characteristics of the city. This applies especially to Munich: there arose such as the Hofbräuhaus, the Mathäser as: greatest beer in the world, the Löwenbräu Keller, or beer palace at the brewery to Münchner Kindl.

Beer palaces were popular until the end of the 19th century and led to the export of the design in the rest of Europe. In 1900 this trend slowed social changes until after the First World War, no new beer palaces were built more.