Hoff Information

HofF is a district in Bavaria. Encompassed by the districts of Wunsdiel, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Kronach, the states of Thuringia and Saxony and the Czech Republic. The city of Hofis enclosed by, it is nonetheless the district's administrative seat. Hof was originally called Rekkenze and established around the year 1080.

Hoff is famous for two local dishes- Schnitz, a kind of hotpot, and sausages boiled in a portable, coal-fired brass cauldron, which are sold in the streets by the sausage man. There is also a particularly strong beer or the Schlappenbier, that is available only on the first Monday after trinity sunday. Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Christian liturgical calendar.