Hotel Waldkater

Before it was shot by a hunter the cat was supposed to have been saved by revealing a recipe for a May Day drink (Maitrank).

[1] Less romantic is the story that a carter named Christoph Fessel originally built a small refreshment hut in the Bode Gorge that was soon replaced by the one-story Kleiner Waldkater.

The Kleiner Waldkater was used after the Second World War initially as a residence for evacuees and, later, as a works holiday home for Naumburg furniture workers.

[2] Theodor Fontane visited Thale and the surrounding area several times and made the Bode Gorge an important setting for his novel, Cécile.

In the twelfth chapter of this novel, the protagonists plan an afternoon excursion from Thale; whereby the Waldkater is also mentioned: "Non not the Bode Gorge," said Gordon.