A hall at Augustiner Bräu Mülln with long wooden tables, stone floor and tall arched windows

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Augustiner Bräu Kloster Mülln

Lindhofstraße 7, 5020 Salzburg (Kloster Mülln)

Grade B · Building datedTrading · checked Sept 2026

Augustiner Bräu Kloster Mülln claims 1621. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed: 1621
First record: none found
Building: no single date

The building. Former Augustinian friary: a collegiate foundation from 1465, taken over by Augustinian hermits from Munich in 1605 and extended between 1607 and 1614; the present brewhouse was built in 1912.

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Hatched: 405 years claimed with no document found yet.

The claim

Austria's largest beer hall fills the old friary at Mülln, where monks began brewing in 1621. Drinkers still take a stone mug from the rack and have it filled from a wooden barrel, then collect food from market-style stalls and settle in vaulted halls or a vast shaded garden with around 1,400 seats. A true Salzburg institution.

What the records show

Augustinian hermits from Munich took over the house at Mülln in 1605 and founded the brewery in 1621, selling their beer first at the friary gate and later through inns bought for the purpose — so drink was sold on these premises from the start. The Augustinians died out in Salzburg in 1818, the buildings served as barracks, and in 1835 the Emperor Ferdinand I passed them to the Benedictines of Michaelbeuern, who hold half the brewing company still. The trade has not been unbroken: the serving of beer was forbidden in 1940 and the business had to stop altogether in 1944, resuming after the war. The present brewhouse dates from 1912, and the whole friary ensemble is a protected monument.

What to look for inside

Founded 1621 by Augustinian friars
Self-service stone mugs filled from wooden casks
Austria's largest beer hall, about 5,000 m² indoors
Beer garden with around 1,400 seats
A brewing trade paper of 1889 records the tap room and the verse the prior wrote for its wall

Visiting

Augustiner Bräu Kloster Mülln is in Salzburg, Austria, at Lindhofstraße 7, 5020 Salzburg (Kloster Mülln). We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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