Gasthaus "Zum Roten Ochsen"
Historic student tavern with carved wooden tables, drinking horns and walls of nineteenth-century photos.
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This guide to the Red Ox Inn, Gasthaus Zum Roten Ochsen on Heidelberg's Hauptstrasse, follows the Spengel family from the day Albrecht Spengel bought two houses in the eighteen thirties, and the student regulars his son Carl drew in. It touches Swiss and Hamburg student societies with no house of their own, a law professor turned minister, and a chemist who ended up serving a sultan. Best heard standing in the student room, with the carved tables in front of you.
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