SIFTING through some photos from 2016, which seems like yesterday now, I came across a series I got in Port Richmond and West Brighton in December 2016 that included a couple of photos of Nürnberger Bierhaus (Nuremberg Beer Hall) at Castleton and Davis Avenues. No use linking to the Yelp review, as the bar/restaurant featuring German fare closed sometime in 2021. I suppose I was attracted to the blackletter type and signage in German, a language not often found on NYC signage except on church cornerstones.
This illuminated sign referred to the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan in Freising, Bavaria, considered the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world. Beer has been brewed on Weihenstephan Hill since 1040, a tradition spanning almost 1000 years that originated as a former Benedictine monastery brewery (according to the AI robot). Nuremberg is a city of a half million in Bavaria, Germany, famed for the 11th Century Kaiserburg Castle. The site of pre-war Nazi rallies, it was the setting for the postwar Nuremberg trials in which Nazi leaders Nazi leaders were prosecuted for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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2/19/26
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On one sign it calls itself “Bierhalle” and on the other “Bierhaus.” So I looked at Google Maps, and a Streetview picture from September 2013 shows “Bierhaus” in the lower structure on the left and no sign on the taller structure on the right. If you move to the East in Streetview, the picture changes to September 2019, where the larger structure pictured above now indicates “Bierhalle.” Is “Bierhaus” the business and “Bierhalle” just the functional name of the building on the right?