In the 1930s, the butcher Stark built a small inn with a butcher shop in Rothenstadt.
According to local legend, he was nicknamed "Schinderhannes" due to his pithy sayings and his raw butchery. In 1968, the village inn with a butcher shop was passed on to the Opel family and rebuilt.

When innkeeper Siegfried Pötzl, originally from Hammerweg, acquired the inn in October 1981, he liked the name Schinderhannes so much that he named the establishment after it and continues to identify with the name to this day. Since then, the Schinderhannes Inn has been successfully run by Siegfried Pötzl and his two children, Susanne and Johannes.