The Spessart Inn is the first part of Kurt Hoffmann lose Spessart trilogy.
The march that is played while Colonel von Teckel is explaining the plans of attack is "Preußens Gloria", a Prussian march composed by Johann Gottfried Piefke. It was released in 1871, right after the German-French War and 47 years after the the released of the original story by Wilhelm Hauff on which the movie is based.