Neuhaus Receives Brewing and Serving Rights

In 1415, the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg granted the citizens of Neuhaus, in what is now Bavaria's Upper Palatinate, the right to brew and serve beer. The grant accompanied the settlement's market rights and forms a documented medieval foundation of the local brewing tradition now associated with Zoigl. Neuhaus, today part of Windischeschenbach, remains one of the communities where citizens use a shared brewhouse to produce beer for household consumption and local serving. In the later Zoigl tradition, a sign displayed outside a house announces that beer is available there. Neuhaus's present communal brewhouse was built in 1876, centuries after the original grant.