Das Gasthaus zum wilden Mann

Ha--evidently, our Janson ancestors weren't always farmers.  (For what it's worth, Mom said the "original" Janson was a tailor). More concretely, we know  Jansons owned a pub called the Wild Man, which is still there in Horrenberg.  
Carrie found info about it from Manfred Fuchs:

The Janson family owned the inn "for the Wild Man," in Horrenberg which still exists today. The municipality of Horrenberg, in 1843, decided to build a town hall in front of the gasthaus. It was a fight between Janson and the community. After lengthy court proceedings, the municipality finally allowed construction of theTown Hall (1845);  Janson the owner was safe but in the processes was almost ruined, so little by little emigrated (after 1852) almost the whole family. Today there are no longer in Horrenberg Jansons. (Google translated and I re-arranged words).

She sent the website address of the Wilden Mann, and provided this additional info:

"From the website's history page it looks as though our ancestor Johann Ludwig Hamberger took ownership in 1688 and then it must have passed through to the Jansons. In 1850, the Knopf family bought it. So that's kind of making sense if they were used to running the inn & suddenly didn't have that anymore, didn't have much money that just 3 years later, Daniel would try to emigrate. I don't know who exactly of the Jansons fought the city or if it was a group but based on occupations, I have it being run by:
After Johann Ludwig Hamberger it went to his son:
Andreas Johann Caspar Hamberger, Wirt zum Wilden Mann 1710-1741 to his son-in-law:
Johann Adam Janson, Wirt zum Wilden Mann 1748-1749
Georg Adam Janson, Wirt zum Wilden Mann 1772-1791
Georg Valentin Janson Wirt zum Wilden Mann 1805-1825
I don't know who had it in those missing gaps, other brothers, cousins? And who had it after 1825. I wish there was more on the website. These men were also mayors, customs officials, farmers, etc".

To the left is a photo of "The old town hall" from the Wild Man website...and below is a random photo taken in Horrenberg by a visitor.  A little zooming reveals the words on the sign: "Wilden Mann".  Yeah, it looks like our ancestors had a legitimate beef, huh?  But, I can imagine, too, a festering long-term Janson vendetta against that "unfairness".  Sigh.

MORE thanks to Carrie ☺!