Hotel zur Post is the largest hotel in the vacation town of Velburg,

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History

Hotel zur Post was once known as the "Cross Landlord" until it was purchased by Joseph Glossner in 1907 and renamed. Glossner was named Keeper of a Post Station in the order of

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, and conducted a stage service to

Parsberg Parsberg is a town in the county of Neumarkt in Bavaria, Germany. It is 23 km southeast of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km northwest of Regensburg, next to the A3 autobahn, the main route from Nuremberg to Regensburg (and then ...

and

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. In 1923, the stage service was replaced by a bus. The post office was located in the hotel until 1966. Richard Stigler married into the Glossner family and took over operation of the hotel in 1990. In 2009, Richard's son, also named Richard, took over operation of the hotel.

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