Day seminars, training sessions and company dinners for up to 210 guests can be organized at the Stromberg Naturparkhotel & Landgasthof, a family-run hotel and country inn in Ochsenbach, a village of Sachsenheim in the Stromberg nature park in Baden-Württemberg. Two meeting rooms handle the working sessions, while the inn's dining rooms and a sandstone vaulted cellar take groups from 15 to 85 guests for dinners and parties.
Seminars and company events
The hotel has two meeting rooms named after local grapes, Riesling and Trollinger. The site gives their floor areas as 100 and 30 square meters. Both come equipped with a projector, a flip chart, pinboards, a whiteboard and a moderation kit. Two day packages are offered. The Basic package covers a morning coffee break with Swabian pretzels, a lunch with a choice of two main courses or a vegetarian dish and one drink, an afternoon break with pastries, and the standard equipment. The Komfort package adds soup or salad and a small dessert at lunch, more choice at the breaks, and meeting drinks with a fruit basket in the room. After the sessions, a group can move to the Schwabenstube or the vaulted cellar for dinner, or book a themed wine tasting. Company parties are among the events the inn lists for its side rooms.
Rooms and capacities
The inn spreads over several rooms with space for up to 210 guests in total. The restaurant seats about 35. The Stüble takes celebrations of up to 25 people, and the sunny Veranda next to it seats 15. The Schwabenstube, a newly built room, holds 85. The Gewölbekeller, a historic cellar with a sandstone vault, seats between 20 and 80 and is used for celebrations and wine tastings. The two meeting rooms sit in the newer Naturparkhotel building.
Accommodation
The Naturparkhotel has 28 rooms and one-room apartments, with single and double rooms, and the Landgasthof adds four rooms in country-house style. Guests have a sauna, a fitness room and a frost-proof garage. A seminar group can therefore sleep on site and stay for a second day.
Catering
The kitchen cooks Swabian food, with dishes such as Maultaschen, Zwiebelrostbraten and lentils with Spätzle. Local wines such as Riesling, Trollinger and Lemberger are served, and the cellar hosts menus paired with premium wines. The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays. The family also runs an outside catering service for 20 to 500 people, with cold and warm buffets, game menus and grill dishes, trained staff, crockery and decoration.
History and setting
The Gemrig family has run the business for more than 30 years. Manfred and Walli Gemrig built up the Landgasthof, and their son Thorsten and his wife Linda now lead the second generation. The inn was renovated and joined by the newer Naturparkhotel, which brought comfort rooms, a sauna, fitness facilities and the conference area. Ochsenbach has about 850 residents and lies in the Kirbach valley, in the northern corner of the Ludwigsburg district, surrounded by forest and vineyards. The area suits hiking and cycling, and the hotel sells a hiking and wine package for small groups.
Getting there
The address is Güglinger Straße 5 in Sachsenheim-Ochsenbach. The village sits in the area between Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Heidelberg and Pforzheim. Groups arriving by car can use the hotel garage.
