The Selbstversorgerhaus Prinz Ernst takes seminars, trainee programs, team retreats and family gatherings for up to 40 people, all staying overnight in a house let to one group at a time. It stands at Siegfriedstraße 6 in Ernsttal, part of Mudau in the Odenwald, and belongs to the princely house of Leiningen, which runs it as a venue with accommodation.
Seminars and company events
The seminar room holds about 30 to 40 people. Tables and chairs can be moved to suit the session, and a TV screen serves for presentations. In the evening the room works as a second common room. Groups of apprentices and trainees, school classes, hiking clubs and associations use the house for training days and workshops combined with time outdoors. Since the whole house goes to one group, a team has the dining room, lounge, garden and bedrooms to itself for the length of the stay, with no other guests in the building.
Rooms and capacities
On the ground floor, the dining room seats 25 to 30 people around a tiled stove. A side room takes about 25 and a lounge about 15 to 25, with a TV, table football and a dartboard; both can be booked as extras. The seminar room completes the ground floor. Outside, a fully fenced beer garden seats 40 and has a brick barbecue, a table tennis table and a lawn for ball games. Guests bring their own bats and balls for table tennis.
Accommodation
The house sleeps 40 in 11 rooms. The first floor has eight rooms with 28 beds: one room for six, four rooms for four and three rooms for two, all with bunk beds and each with its own shower and toilet. The second floor has three rooms with 12 beds, one for six, one for four and one for two, with single and bunk beds, served by two shared bathrooms. Further toilets are on the ground floor. The layout suits groups who share rooms, such as trainee cohorts or sports teams.
Catering
The house is self-catering. The kitchen is fully equipped to cook for large groups, and the dining room is next door. Groups plan and prepare their own meals, as there is no restaurant service on site. The barbecue in the beer garden suits evening meals in summer.
History and setting
The building was once a post station of the Leiningen family, whose seat is at Amorbach. Today it serves as group accommodation in a rural part of the Odenwald, a range of wooded hills between the Main and the Neckar. The surroundings suit hiking and mountain biking, and a climbing park lies nearby, which makes it easy to pair a working morning with an afternoon outside.
Getting there
The address is Siegfriedstraße 6, 69427 Mudau-Ernsttal, in the Neckar-Odenwald district of Baden-Württemberg. The house lies in the countryside, and most groups arrive by car or coach. The site gives no public transport details, so organizers should plan the last stretch by road.
