Hotel Driland

350 years back in time according to which the restaurant ‘Gasthof Driland’ owes its name. After negotiations between Emperor Ferdinand III and France and its allies in Münster and with Sweden and its allies in Osnabrück, the Peace of Westphalia was signed on 24 October 1648, which ultimately ended the Thirty Years' War. Among other things, this treaty redefined the territorial borders in Germany. This is how the boundary stone at the border triangle - also known as Driland - was created, separating the kingdoms of Hanover, Prussia and the Netherlands. The horses had to be harnessed Around 1651, there was only a small agricultural cottage belonging to the Fix family, which, according to the law at the time, was only allowed to cater for guests who had harnessed their horses. And that didn't change for a long time,’ reports Heinrich Berning, current owner of the “Gasthof Driland” restaurant. 200 years later, Hermann Berning from Losser and his wife Johanna (née Fix) received a Prussian restaurant licence for the first time, which entitled them to serve anyone in their inn. ‘That was the birth of Gasthof Driland, which has remained in family hands ever since,’ recalls Heinrich Beming, who took over the restaurant from his parents Hermann and Josefine Berning (née Bügener) in 1959 in the fifth generation. In the future, too, the