In the 30 years, the butcher Stark built a small inn with a butcher's shop in Rothenstadt. The narratives to, he became the nickname "Schinderhannes" because of his pithy sayings. In 1968, the inn was transmitted to the butcher family Opel who has rebuilt the inn.

When the innkeeper Siegfried Pötzl of Hammerweg purchased the inn in October 1981, it is the name "Schinderhannes" he liked so much that he named the restaurant like that and identify with this name. Since the inn Schinderhannes will continue successfully by Siegfried Pötzl and his two children, Susan and John.