Tavern

taverna (I)

taberna (ES)

tavern (GB)

Old name (also Taferne) for an inn, derived from the Latin "Taberna" (hut, booth). The operator of a tafern or tafern inn, also known as the "Taferner" or "Tafernwirt", held the right to serve tafern in earlier times. This right, which was granted by the sovereign, was similar to today's restaurant concession and included various privileges. According to this, the host of a tavern, a so-called "perfect economy", not only had the public serve food and drink, the right to stay in a hostel, the right to serve guests and the right to run stables for foreigners (the supply and shelter of draught and riding animals), but he was also allowed to organize engagement banquets, weddings, baptismal banquets and other festivities. In addition, in the event of death, the funeral feast was held here and the estate negotiations were conducted.

If no official residence was available, court hearings were also held there. The Taferne was, so to speak, the communal centre in secular affairs of the inhabitants of the village. The right to dine also included the right to brew, to distil and to bake, i.e. the right to set up an oven and bake bread. An innkeeper without the right to serve food was only a so-called tap-owner. In the past, legal transactions were "drunk" with wine, i.e. sealed in front of witnesses. See in this respect also under "" and "", as well as under "".

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