Forest Café Connewitz

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The Wald-Café in Leipzig - Connewitz is a former popular Leipzig excursion restaurant. It was located near the Raschwitz Bridge over the Pleiße with the address Koburger Straße 8.

The building was built at the end of the 19th century in the style of historicism and had two striking roof turrets. It was directly adjacent to the Connewitz wood. Behind the house was a large patio under trees, which also had access from the forest. Music concerts were also held here. In addition to the tram, the café was also easy to reach by boat, as there was a boat landing stage at the Raschwitz Bridge. A postcard from the 1930s advertises a covered outdoor dance floor with the forest as the background.

During the Second World War , the area of ​​the forest café was used to accommodate prisoner-of-war forced laborers from the Connewitz machine and gear factory G. E. Reinhardt (later VEB vehicle transmission works “Joliot Curie”).

During the air raid on Leipzig on February 20, 1944, the Wald-Café was destroyed by bombs. After the war, the catering business was restarted in a makeshift manner. When the four-lane federal highway 2 was built in the immediate vicinity at the end of the 1960s , the end had finally come. Today only a few remains of the foundation wall on a rather overgrown property remind of the former restaurant.

The Wald-Café in Connewitz is also mentioned in the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson , which is set in Leipzig in the 1890s.

  • The Koburger Strasse around 1905,
    on the left the Wald-Café

  • The same look in 2010

  • Watercolor from the forest cafe

  • The access from the forest

  • Postcard forest cafe

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  1. ↑ a b Heinz Peter Brogiato: Leipzig around 1900. Second volume: The city districts in colored picture postcards from the archive of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig eV Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3937146-46-1 , p. 34.
  2. ↑ Thomas Fickenwirth, Birgit Horn, Christian Kurzweg: Foreign and forced labor in the Leipzig area 1939–1945. Archival special inventory (= Leipzig calendar. Special volume 2004, 1). Leipziger-Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-937209-92-1 , p. 245.
  3. ^ Henry Handel Richardson : Maurice Guest. Heinemann, London 1908 (new edition: Echo Library, Teddington 2007, ISBN 978-1-4068-3871-8 ; in German: 2 volumes. Authorized translation from English by Otto Neustätter. S. Fischer, Berlin 1912).

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24.1 ″  E