The Hofbräu Keller For several decades Irmgard Steinmüller has been the owner of this cellar, and has become a kind of symbolic figure. Originally the cellar used to belong to a brewery in the very eastern part of Erlangen. The brewery was founded in 1729 and was located between Bohlenplatz 6 and Universitätsstraße (now a Greek restaurant). Before World War I its management was in the hands of Messrs. Erlwein und Schultheiß and was then in 1919 taken over by Hofbräu AG Bamberg und Erlangen. After the fire in 1936 the brewing techniques were no longer renewed and the buildings were only used as establishment up until they were sold to the university and torn down in 1955.