Gesthouse "Zum Wilden Mann"
From 1843 onwards, the "Zum Wilden Mann" was quite the place to be. Rochus and Carolina Degen were the landlords. Their inn was regarded as a meeting place for the radical party. In addition to various cold drinks, plans for a coup regularly landed on the table here.
Rochus Degen had already been a soldier in Rastatt for several years. He finally threw in the towel and took over the "Zum Wilden Mann" following a confrontation with a colonel. He was always politically minded and, from the 1840s onwards, he stirred up public opinion with radical ideas. His punishment was immediate: After the failed revolution, his entire fortune was confiscated, leaving only his inn. Together with his wife, he ran the "Zum Wilden Mann" for another ten years.
