200 years ago, the mayor of Bruck Georg Frey named his newly built public house near the stone bridge on the river Regnitz »Zum Ritter St. Georg«. This name was taken over in 1802 for the now historically listed guesthouse, and is still carried on today.

People today experience the two-storey rectangular building with its hip roof - once house number 109 in the village of Bruck and now Herzogenauracher Damm 11 - just as the guests did 200 years ago. The prominent location made it a place to stop for travellers, farmers, soldiers, and the locals, including the young sport enthusiasts who founded the "Turnverein Markt Bruck" (Gymnastics Club Markt Bruck), later called "TV 61", on August 13, 1861. It was also used as a toll collection point and even as a tobacco factory from 1840-1890.

On April 1, 1891, the 31-year-old Johann Leonhard Birnbaum of Rosstal, on record as a proprietor and economist, took possession of the building. He was the seventh owner after the builder Georg Frey.

The family gastronomy business is in its fourth generation with Hans Birnbaum. He and his wife Katrin, a hotel management specialist, have run »Ritter St. Georg« since 1995.

In 1997 the inside of the building was thoroughly modernized and it was expanded with a large, modern extension.