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To: Menes
Sorry to be late, but „Glöckl“ is „little bell“ in the Franconian dialect, which is spoken in and around Nuremberg.

Well thank you for clarifying that. Could you perhaps give us a decent interpretation of the entire name "nürnberger bratwurst glöckl"?

Is "bell" used in the context of "dinner bell" or is it meant to signify something else?

145 posted on 05/15/2023 8:39:59 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

As far as I know, the founder of the Munich restaurant in 1893, Simon Bäumler by name, was from Nuremberg, where a very famous restaurant had a very similar name (Bratwurstglöcklein, which has the same meaning, but is Standard German, not Franconian dialect).
He was inspired by the name of the older restaurant in Nuremburg, it is said. Furthermore, his Munich restaurant was - and is - adjacent directly to the Cathedral of Our Lady, the Frauenkirche.
This has a little bell dangling from a ledge just next to the restaurant.. From time to time, it rings and can be heard clearly within the restaurant. So that was obviously the origin of the name :-)

BTW, the restaurant still exists, serving hearty German fare. It is both popular with the locals and with tourists. Whether it still is a gay meeting place, I cannot say, however, but probably not. They serve everybody who is hungry, though :-)


146 posted on 05/15/2023 10:40:39 AM PDT by Menes
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