Catering company takes over Gerbermühle | Frankfurt

Frankfurt – The corona pandemic is leaving its mark on Frankfurt’s gastronomic landscape. The Gerbermühle in Oberrad, one of the most traditional houses in the city, is now in different hands. Micky Rosen and Alex Urseanu lease the idyllic country house hotel with restaurant and spacious beer garden on the banks of the Main to the Binding Brewery. It will be run by Maximilian Hirsch, owner of the catering company Bumb Junior Finest Catering.

A spokeswoman for the Gekko Group announced that the jobs in the Gerbermühle are to be retained even after the change of operator. Rosen and Urseanu operate their hotels and restaurants under this brand name. According to the company spokeswoman, the Gerbermühle has now been removed from this portfolio and has become the private property of the two large restaurateurs. The new operators, the Hirsch family, have been friends with them for a long time. They maintain a relationship of trust and the common conviction that the Gerbermühle should continue with the same concept and gastronomic offer as it has been successful in the recent past. With their catering service Bumb Junior Finest Catering, the Hirsch family have almost 30 years of experience in Frankfurt’s gastronomy.

“We are happy to have found two very experienced and renowned partners as successors in the Binding Brewery as tenants and with the Hirsch family as operators, who will continue to run the restaurant and the hotel in our sense,” commented Micky Rosen and Alex Urseanu Handing over.

Checkered history

In a certain way, this continues the checkered history of the Gerbermühle, which owes a certain fame to the great Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The poet prince, who has matured over the years, is said to have been walking there on bare feet, around 200 years ago, and to have laid his heart at the feet of the young wife of the landlord.

From the then splendid summer residence of a Frankfurt banking family, nothing more than the foundation walls remained over time and war. It was not until the 1970s that the tanner mill was rebuilt on a provisional basis with little financial means and operated as an inn. At the end of 2001 the house was so dilapidated that the owner closed it. In 2005 he reopened the Gerbermühle, but only as a spacious garden restaurant with 500 seats. In 2006, the owner gave the extensive renovation and expansion of the historic site to the Frankfurt architect Jochem Jourdan. After completion, Micky Rosen and Alex Urseanu took over the house, which had been turned into a real gem, as tenants, in 2016 they acquired the Gerbermühle and integrated it into their Gekko Group. The fact that the two restaurateurs, who are more active in the premium segment, have now separated the Gerbermühle from the Gekko family, but not parted with it, but kept it as a private property, is likely to have something to do with their appreciation for the beautiful place and a certain bond between the two of them attractive piece of Frankfurt.

If the catering establishments can at least reopen their outdoor areas in the near future, the Gerbermühle should be one of the most popular addresses – thanks to the spacious extension of its beer garden and its unique location directly on the south bank of the Main and an excellent view of the skyline. For cyclists and walkers alike, it is literally a place to stop for refreshments. You can even get to the Gerbermühle by boat. A jetty of the same name is only a few steps away. enz

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