Café Gerstner

Gerstner Catering Betriebs GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	April 24 , 1847
Seat	Vienna
management	Oliver W. Braun
Branch	Pastry shop
Website	http://www.gerstner.at

The founder Anton Gerstner

Old advertisement from A. Gerstner

Exterior view of the Gerstner on Kärntner Strasse in Vienna

The Café Gerstner is a café-pastry shop in Vienna and part of Gerstner Hospitality Group .

history

The company, still operating today as Gerstner kuk Hofzuckerbäckerei at Kärntner Strasse 51 in the First District, was founded on April 24, 1847 by Anton and Barbara Gerstner in Vienna.

In 1869 Gerstner took over the catering in the then kuk Hofoperntheater, today's Vienna State Opera . This partnership between the State Opera and the Gerstner continues to this day and culminates every year in the culinary care of the opera ball by Gerstner Catering .

Due to the popularity of the products and the good business relationships as well as recognition during the Vienna World Exhibition , the company was raised from the emperor to the kuk Hofzuckerbäcker in 1873. Anton Gerstner was one of the very few purveyors to the court who did not have to apply for an appointment at the chief stewardship, but was offered one. Gerstner supplied the Viennese court with pastries and sweets for various events.

Anton Gerstner set up a foundation for young people who wanted to become confectioners. His son Anton Gerstner II. (1860–1936) and his mother continued to run the company and in 1899 were again given the title of purveyor to the court. In 1911 he received the order for the wedding buffet on the occasion of the marriage of Archduke Karl Franz Joseph and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma , the later imperial couple.

In the Second World War , the son Anton Gerstner III. drafted into the armed forces. In a bomb attack on Vienna, the restaurant on Kärntner Strasse was destroyed and the archive destroyed.

The company was rebuilt after the war, but had to be sold to Creditanstalt in 1952 . Since then the owners have changed frequently. When the Austrian State Treaty was signed in 1955 in Belvedere Palace and at the subsequent gala dinner in Schönbrunn Palace, Gerstner was present as a buffet provider.

During the summit meeting of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Gerstner took over the catered desserts. Gerstner also regularly supplies summits and state visits.

In 1988 the company received the state award and has since been allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions.

Today the company has 11 cafés, confectioneries or buffets, mainly concentrated in the 1st district of Vienna, Innere Stadt . The local cafe is located at the Kärntnerstraße 51. Record under other Haustorte, are Gerstner cake , Sacher cake , poppy seed cake , fruit cake , nut cake , Linzer Torte , Kardinalschnitte , vanilla foam cuts , raspberry cuts and marble ring cake with chocolate splinters. Gerstner also offers a catering service.

The company has been awarded the 2008 Golden Coffee Bean by Jacobs excellent.

Individual evidence

↑ Gravestone at the Perchtoldsdorf cemetery , where the founder is also buried.
^ Goldene Kaffeebohne 2008. (No longer available online.) Jacobs, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 23, 2009 (German). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jacobs.at

literature

Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
Ingrid Haslinger, Erika Patka, Marie L Jesch: The sweet luxury. The Hofzuckerbäckerei and the former kuk Hofzuckerbäcker Demel, Gerbeaud, Gerstner, Heiner, Rumpelmayer, Sluka. An exhibition by the Looshaus culture group. Agent's work Geyer + Reisser, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-9500302-4-7 .