Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp
Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp , also known as Mother Veldkamp , (* July 5, 1865 in Hamburg ; † December 13, 1944 there ) was the owner of a café on the Hamburg Cathedral , a folk festival that takes place three times a year.
Life
Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp's grandmother came from Groningen , where she ran a sugar confectionery business from 1821. In the middle of the 19th century, she moved the business to Hamburg. She bequeathed the company to her daughter, who used it to build a small café on top of the cathedral. Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp took over the facility from her mother in the third generation.
In 1900 she married a pastry chef with whom she had three sons. Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp was nicknamed Mother Veldkamp because of her commitment to Hamburg's orphans . In addition to donations, she opened the Dom-Café on one day exclusively for the children, who received cakes and cocoa for free . During the Second World War , the couple's apartment was destroyed by bombs during Operation Gomorrah in 1943. The Veldkamp couple stayed with one of their sons.
Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp, who had suffered from heart disease for a long time, died on December 13, 1944. The orphans said goodbye to her with candles in their hands. Her tombstone can be found today in the women's garden .
History of the cafe
Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp, who had taken over the café from her mother, expanded it into an institution with 1200 seats. It employed about 40 waitresses and waitresses and a band. The wooden-walled café had a high tower, and on the outside of the building there was a portrait of Mother Veldkamp made of many lightbulbs. She herself sat behind the cash register. She wore a Dutch hood made of gold , Brussels lace and ear irons decorated with diamonds . The headdress inherited from the grandmother burned during the air raids on Hamburg.
During the Second World War, the Hamburg Cathedral paused from 1940. The superstructures and furnishings in the café burned during Operation Gomorrah.
literature
- Rita Bake : Veldkamp, Anna Wilhelmine Catharina . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 426-427 . (available on Google Books )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History - Gold almonds. Retrieved on February 3, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veldkamp, Anna Wilhelmine Catharina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mother Veldkamp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Owner of a café on Hamburg Cathedral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |