The old postal inn lay in Spitalgasse a little away from the Reichsstrasse (Imperial road). When the postmaster, Joseph von Grebmer, died in 1845, the landlord of the Stern, Josef Alois Told and the postmaster’s widow, Elisabeth Grebmer applied to take over the running of the postal service. 

A report was commissioned on the two properties. At the end it stated that  the Löwen inn belonging to the widow was in good condition and suitable for the postal service. Only the access was unfavourable, being first and foremost too narrow. The Stern inn belonging to Told was in a considerably better position, but the area in front of the building was too hazardous for coaches arriving and departing.

Thereupon the widow Grebmer declared that she wished to build a new building, namely next to the district municipal building on Graben. She won the contract. Within two years the post office stood in the former “Sternbachgarten”. 

The issuing of the innkeeping license for the new post office took longer. Bruneck’s landlords feared competition from an additional taverner and intervened. After much back and forth the post mistress, Mrs Grebmer, was permitted to run a guesthouse and inn.

The postal inn quickly became a prime address. A description from 1867 depicts the postal inn as the best guesthouse in the town and in 1886 Emperor Franz Joseph I stayed here.