The history of the hotel
In 1738 Mathias Wilhelm opened the bush farm and bought the house in 1746. After the death of his parents, son Josef takes over the wine tavern.
In 1834 Christian Hummel took over the estate, after the wine tavern had been owned by Josef Laurent. After a long request, he succeeds in converting the former bush-house into a restaurant and is now able to serve warm meals, which was demanded by the market people for a long time. Again and again he had been refused permission to do so. Eduard Hummel, Christian's son, bought the other half of the house from the shoemaker Johann Schmid on 13 July 1870 and converted the entire lower floor into a restaurant, after he had taken it over from his father Christian Hummel in 1863. In this state, the wine tavern on Münsterplatz is still known to all Freiburg residents. "The Hummele on Münsterplatz" was a household name for every Freiburg citizen.
Elise and Karl Oberkirch bought the house in 1936. Legend has it that during the heavy bombing raid on Freiburg in 1944, Karl Oberkirch extinguished the fire that broke out in the historic department shop on Münsterplatz with wines from his wine cellar. The Oberkirch house was miraculously spared. From 1951 his daughter Helga joined the business. This year, another building is added: the former horse stable of the Sickingerpalais (today the district court) burns out completely during the war and is rebuilt as a hotel building. In 1951 the opening of the hotel is celebrated.
In 1967 Helga Oberkirch and her husband Herbert take over her parents' business. 1991 finally Helga hands over the house to her son Helmut Johner and his partner Doris Hunn, who continued the hotel and restaurant business until his death in 1997. In 1992, the house on Münsterplatz was extensively renovated and the hotel and restaurant rooms created in this way now offer modern comfort in the atmosphere of a traditional house.
Since 1998 Doris Hunn has been managing the Oberkirch Hotel and the long tradition of the house is successfully continued ...
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