The farm building is the park's architectural masterpiece. From the Art Nouveau period, it offers a place for socializing with a beer garden and concert space. Built in 1904, it replaced the previous building that had become too small. City architect Albert Mollweide drew up the plan in 1900 in the first year of his term: a white plastered building with red half-timbered gables rests on yellow-grey stone catacombs — extravagant! Could Mollweide be inspired by an earlier beer hall? Four years earlier, in 1896, the well-known Art Nouveau architect Hans Pylipp had built one for the State Exhibition in Nuremberg. Strikingly similar!?
In 1832, the city of Hof erected the first, still small farm building, which four years later received an extension on the left and right to cope with the influx of guests (see photo from 1848). Nothing helped - it was still too small. A new building was needed. The remarkable thing about the new building from 1904 at that time: the city paid for the construction. However, it was calculated in an exemplary manner (which is by no means the rule nowadays for public contracts).
The city approved 160,000 marks and in the end the construction cost 175,097 marks and 14 pfennigs. And that's only because the city had special requests worth 12,350 marks during construction, such as electric lighting for the concert area, planting older trees, creating a wide path and building a music pavilion. In today's terms, the construction cost was 1.15 million euros; this was (without special requests) only exceeded by 1%!