1900-1945

Max Cürten died aged merely 41, in November 1902, and his widow employed the brewmaster Jean Keller, to whom she first leased (in 1907) and then sold (in 1912) the house, brewery and the pub. Keller, himself habitually grumpy, and his wife Karoline ran the UERIGE until 1934, after which brewmaster Jakob Lotz leased the public house for three years.

The next owner was Rudolf Arnold, of Saxony, who had previously worked in Koblenz as head of a brewery. His era, which spanned nearly forty years, began on October 1, 1937. The UERIGE and its proprietor Arnold suffered badly during the Second World War: in 1943, a bomb smashed the front house; in 1944, after another air raid, the brewery burnt down entirely.