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| 28-FEB-1446 | Annafest first mentioned. |
| 1722 | 42 owener of cellars mentioned, most of them landlords, cask makers and brewers. |
| 1801 | Joh. Baptist Roppelt talks about 31 cellars in his book "Historisch topographischen Beschreibung des Hochstifts und Fürstentums Bamberg". |
| 1840 | the Königlich Privilegierte Hauptschützengesellschaft (Royal Priviledged Shooting Society) moved to the cellars. |
The cellars of Forchheim are well known and famous for their coziness and the
excellent beers.
When you first arrive you will see a light forest on a mountainside with
numerous small pubs in wooden huts.
The visitors sit mostly under the trees on wooden benches, so it is very popular
during hot summer days.
But this website is dedicated to subterranean sights, not pubs.
And we have a very strong connection to a special subterranea, which is even
mentioned in the name:
all those pubs are based on a beer cellar.
The steep slope of the mountain was used by the breweries of Forchheim, to build
horizontal cellars, which could
be enterd with wheelbarrow and carts.
A long time ago, the tradition started, to sell the beer directly from the
cellar on special feasts.
The owners of the cellars just put a counter in front of the cellar entrance and
sold their beer.
Wooden benches around the cellar seated their guests.
And this tradition lives until today: once a year, at the end of July, the
Annafest takes place here.
It is the biggest festival of Frochheim, well known and well visited, and all of
the cellars are open at this time.
Most of the cellars are open the whole summer and some of them the whole year.
Especially those with a wooden hut and an oven.
The cellars were built into the Dogger sandstone.
But they are not open to the public.
The cellars which are open all the year have a hut built on top of the entrance.
But the cellars, which open only for the Annafest, look original: a sandstone
arch with a wooden door in the mountainside.
Those doors can be found all over the area, which gives a good idea of the
number and diversity of the cellars.
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