Hotel Pflug
Relax, unwind & enjoy
A very warm welcome to the heart of Ottenhoefen and to our traditional family owned hotel at the foot of the Black Forest National Park. Nestled between the Baden wine route and the Black Forest High Road you will find your favourite place to relax and enjoy.
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Hotel Pflug
Restaurant
In our restaurant “Mark Twain Stube” we spoil you with freshly prepared dishes from the traditional Baden cuisine, mixed with international delicacies to create the special twist. We prepare all our dishes with much love & joy, mostly according to desire & mood but above all according to seasonal availability and regional nature of our products. We are glad having you here. Enjoy your meal!
Experienced History
Mark Twain as guest at “Hotel Pflug”
An American writer with a sharp tongue, a travel bag in hand, and a heart full of adventure enters the Gasthof Zum Pflug. His name? Mark Twain. His goal? Europe – but on this day: baked trout.
He orders. He enjoys. And how! But the journey doesn’t end there – not geographically, but socially: into the guest room. And what he experiences there would make even Twain smile.
“One day we had baked trout at a very pretty village (Ottenhöfen) in the inn Zum Pflug and then went into the guest room to rest and smoke. There we found nine or ten Black Forest dignitaries sitting around a table. It was the town council. They had gathered at eight o’clock that morning to elect a new member, and had been drinking beer for four hours at the new member’s expense.”
Source: Mark Twain, “A Tramp Abroad”; published by Anaconda Verlag
Thus, a simple inn becomes a literary monument. And a brief stop in the Black Forest – an immortal passage in Twain’s “A Tramp Abroad”.
Moral of the story?
Anyone who enters the Pflug risks becoming part of world literature.
