Café Luitpold
The Café Luitpold was a 1888 opened classic coffee house of the early days in Munich . After extensive destruction at the end of the Second World War, it was reopened in a simplified form as a palm garden in 1948 .
In connection with the renovation of seven houses between Brienner Straße and Salvatorplatz , a large inner courtyard was created between 1886 and 1888, which was used by the architect Otto Lasne to build a splendid café. The coffee palaces of the Danube monarchy served as a model . The floor plan of the café was determined by that of the merged courtyards and formed a longitudinal rectangle with crossbars. The large, square domed hall and the hall of mirrors were linked by a columned central aisle. Noble materials such as bronze and black marble as well as rich jewelry through wall paintings underlined the luxurious character of the establishment, which could compete with the Viennese Café Central and the Budapest Café New York . Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee are said to have founded the artist group The Blue Rider in Café Luitpold in 1911 .
A small museum on the 1st floor above the café shows pictures and documents about the history of the house.
literature
- Norbert Götz, Christine Schack-Simitzis, Gabriele Schickel: Die Prinzregentenzeit , catalog Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich 1988, p. 192
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 34.7 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 29.9" E