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Rebstock-Stube, Hauptstr. 74
Why is the ancient inn called Rebststock-"Stube"?

Long ago judgement was administered between the "Stube" and the church. On the 31st of August in 1439 the “Vogt” (reeve) Clewi Udelhart from Denzlingen was sitting in the name of the Markgrave "below the lime tree to pronounce judgement". Later the "Stube" became the seat of the reeve and the village administration.

On the 29th of August in 1789, when the revolution in France broke out, about a hundred Denzlingers stormed the “Stube” with pitchforks and flails; shots are said to have fired.

In earlier times, the "Stube" often was the only room in a house that could be heated. Because guests were also received there, it was decorated as representative as possible.

Such a heatable room was usually found in every inn – so also in Denzlingen. The room, which was used by the reeve and the council in the village inn for administrative acts and meetings, was considered a community room.

After the Denzlinger “Kronenwirt” acquired the Rebstock-Stube in 1798, the community was only allowed to use two rooms in the building. 70 years later, a new town hall was built where the "Birke" inn used to stand. However, it only served as the headquarters of the administration for a short time.

When the town center began to develop around the train station, the church of St. Georg and school, the representative old town hall was built next to the village stream in 1909.