The largest beer hall, the 5,000-seat Mathäser,[a] near the Munich central station, has been converted into a movie theater.
[4] The Bürgerbräukeller in Munich lent its name to the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted Nazi coup led by Adolf Hitler.
[5] American beer halls became popular in the mid-19th century, following a wave of immigration from Germany to the United States.
[6] St. Louis, Missouri is home to a number of beer halls, some of which seat several hundred persons.
[8] The Loerzel Beer Hall was built around 1873 in Saugerties, Ulster County, New York, and was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2000.