Zacharias Frank acquires tavern 'Zur Blum'

The tavern, called Zur Blum, was run by the related Kempff, Stiehler, Geropp and Schneider families until well into the 19th century. In 1870, owner Georg Friedrich Schneider sold the building on Kaufhausgasse 9 in Landau to banker Zacharias Frank for 16,000 guilders. The four-winged, three-storey medieval building included a house with three cellars, three stables, a courtyard wit a colonnade, a well, a barrel store, several ovens and four trumeau mirrors.^[1] Although it may be considered the ancenstral home of Zacharias Frank's children, none of them were actually born there.