Brand-Baude: Your excursion pub with hikers' hostel and holiday apartments
There has been a mountain restaurant here for around 200 years. If you want to get to know the national park, a visit to the "Brand-Baude" with its spectacular view of the Table Mountains is a must. The place known as "Brand" above the Polenztal valley was developed 250 years ago with two buildings for refreshments that are still standing today. Since 2009, the Baude has been one of the first national park partners.
Today, the mountain restaurant known as the "Balcony of Saxon Switzerland" is open all year round without closing days and in all weathers.
The menu not only includes regional specialities such as Galloway meat from Waitzdorf, potatoes from Stürza, goat's cheese from Lauterbach and trout from Rathmannsdorf, but the Baude team also works with producers from Saxony when selecting drinks. A speciality is the Rechenberg beer from the brewery in Rechenberg-Bienenmühle, which has survived to this day for 200 years.
And while the older guests browse through current newspapers and magazines or read in the small library, the younger guests can enjoy the show enclosure with its goats.
Those who want to admire the beauty of nature for longer can spend the night in one of the guest rooms with a shower or in the sleeping bag quarters of the hiking hostel. The mountain inn has become a popular venue for groups and celebrations of all kinds, and the new holiday flats with balconies and the new holiday home in Haus Rosel for 18 people are particularly recommended.
In winter, the cosy wood-burning stove is the venue for Bauden evenings. The summer choir concerts are also always very popular.
And the Brand-Baude has another special feature to offer. The log cabin - one of the oldest buildings on site - has been home to an information centre of the Saxon Switzerland National Park for several years, which is intended to provide assistance in exploring the area in the middle of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
