Rügers Forstgut hosts seminars, strategy retreats and training days for up to 56 people in five meeting rooms, and weddings, birthdays and company parties for up to 120 guests on its garden terrace. Indoors, the Großer Saal takes about 60. The hotel has 33 bedrooms, a restaurant and a wellness lounge. It stands on Schlossallee in Mespelbrunn, in the Spessart hills of Lower Franconia, Bavaria, a short walk from the moated Schloss Mespelbrunn.
Seminars and company events
All five meeting rooms have daylight, blackout, air conditioning and direct access to a terrace or the garden. The two larger rooms have projectors and screens, and the three smaller ones have 65 to 85 inch UHD screens with webcams for video calls on Webex, Zoom or Teams. Wi-Fi covers the whole property. Day packages start from eight participants and include a three-course lunch, or a buffet from 20 people, with an option that adds a three-course dinner. Team programs fill the evenings: tours of the castle from April to October, guided forest walks, torchlight hikes in autumn and winter, a covered-wagon ride, a rope course, adventure golf, an escape game for up to ten people and a Franconian wine tasting. A grill area and a regional robbers' buffet suit an informal evening outdoors.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel organises weddings, birthdays, Christmas parties and company anniversaries. From spring to autumn, the garden terrace, under old linden trees and facing the lake and a small valley, receives up to 120 guests. Several rooms open directly outside for a reception or afternoon coffee.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting rooms are the Hamann-Echter-Zimmer (95 m², 56 in rows, 40 in parliament style, 32 in a U-shape), the Schönborn-Zimmer (65 m², up to 32), the Anselm-von-Ingelheim-Zimmer (50 m², up to 20), the Maria-Otilia-Echter-Zimmer (42 m², up to 16) and the Erthal-Zimmer (28 m², up to 12). For celebrations, the Großer Saal takes about 60 seated and up to 70 with standing tables, the Altes Wirtshaus 28, the Kaminzimmer 20 and the Julius-Echter-Stube 20. The Altes Wirtshaus and the Kaminzimmer combine for 40.
Accommodation
The 33 rooms range from classic single rooms to a junior suite with whirlpool, with classic, superior and deluxe doubles and a tower room in between. Guests have free use of the wellness lounge, with sauna and steam bath on request.
Catering
The restaurant serves regional cooking to hotel guests and outside visitors, and the kitchen and service teams plan menus for each event. Goose dinners are served from late October to late December.
History and setting
The Rüger family served for generations as foresters to the counts of Ingelheim, called Echter von und zu Mespelbrunn. A small inn existed here in the 19th century, and in June 1910 the family rebuilt it on the current site as the Schloss-Hotel, enlarging it several times. It traded as Schlosshotel Mespelbrunn until 2020 and took the name Rügers Forstgut in 2021 under the youngest generation. The nearby castle was a location for the 1957 film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart.
Getting there
Aschaffenburg is 20 km away, Wertheim 35 km, Würzburg 65 km and Frankfurt 70 km. Parking is free, with six charging points for electric cars. Frankfurt Airport is the nearest major airport.
