Anton Rumpelmayer

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Anton Rumpelmayer (born February 13, 1832 in Preßburg ; † July 25, 1914 in Saint-Martin-Vésubie ) was an Austrian confectioner and purveyor to the imperial court who worked in France . His name was written in French Antoine Rumpelmayer .

Life

The Rumpelmayer in Paris, founded in 1903
Invoice from the Perrimond-Rumpelmayer confectionery in Menton (1908)
Rumpelmayer confectionery in Baden-Baden (2008)

In 1870 the confectioner Anton Rumpelmayer , who came from Pressburg , now Bratislava, (according to other sources from Upper Austria) moved to the Côte d'Azur . He probably worked there first in Viktor Sylvain Perrimond's shop in Menton . In 1896 they both founded the Perrimond-Rumpelmayer company and opened shops in Cannes and Nice as well as in Aix-les-Bains in addition to Menton . The Rumpelmayer establishment at today's Avenue du Général du Gaulle 107 in Aix was registered in 1887. Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary often traveled to the area. In the course of one of these trips, she visited a Rumpelmayer establishment. As a result, Rumpelmayer applied to the court in Vienna for the title of court confectioner. This privilege was given to him orally in 1896 by the Empress herself and is therefore one of the very rare cases where the privilege was given orally by an Imperial Majesty. Due to the issuance of the empress, the usual rate was waived. Rumpelmayer's partner Perrimond received the privilege in the same year.

In Dresden, the Conditorei Rumpelmayer GmbH operated its own factory for chocolate candies and canned fruit as well as a confectionery. There were branches in Baden-Baden , Bad Nauheim , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin at Kurfürstendamm 208/209. The Rumpelmayer in Baden-Baden still exists. Rumpelmayer was also a purveyor to the court from Baden and Saxony.

In 1903 Rumpelmayer opened another branch at rue de Rivoli 226 in Paris, which his son René (February 3, 1870 in Nice; † January 28, 1915 in Paris), later his widow Angelina, née. Guillarmou (1866–1954) continued from 1916. The Angelina coffee house , presumably named after his daughter-in-law, became a meeting place for high society in Paris and still exists.

Other Café Rumpelmayer were either operated by him or as a franchise . One was on St. James Street in London , where it became popular and well known to Londoners. The delivery service even found its way into literature. In Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Rumpelmayer is mentioned several times.

Another café was in the Hotel St. Moritz on Central Park in New York . This was opened with the hotel in early 1930, the architect Winold Reiss designed the premises in Art Déco . The café finally closed with the hotel in the 1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Algernon Bastard: The Gourmet's Guide to Europe. Echo Library, 2007, pp. 36, 38 , accessed on April 21, 2010 (English): “To keep up the illusion that Aix-les-Bains is a part of the Riviera, there is a Rumpelmayer cake shop within two minutes 'walk of the Villa des Fleurs. "
  2. ↑ Repertoire des autorisations de voirie et permis de constuire 1842-2003. Repertoire par rues. Archives Municipales d'Aix-les-Bains, p. 173 , archived from the original on November 20, 2008 ; Retrieved on April 21, 2010 (French, Edition du 12 août 2008).
  3. ^ Cafes yesterday and today. In: Lexicon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, April 21, 2009, accessed on April 21, 2010 .
  4. ^ "Nobility obliges" - The Rumpelmayer Confectionery in Baden-Baden. (No longer available online.) Kurhaus Baden-Baden, April 21, 2009, archived from the original on May 17, 2011 ; Retrieved April 21, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurhausrestaurant.de
  5. ↑ https://bnn.de/lokales/baden-baden/neuer-betreiber-uebernnahm-confiserie-rumpelmayer-in-baden-baden
  6. ^ FHW Sheppard (General Editor): St. James's Street, West Side, Existing Buildings. In: Survey of London: volumes 29 and 30. English Heritage, 1960, pp. 472-486 , accessed on April 20, 2010 (English): “The site of Nos. 71-73 (consec.) St. James's Street and 3-6 (consec.) Little St. James's Street was cleared in 1908, and a new block of buildings completed in the following year. (ref. 28) The architects were William Woodward and Sons of Southampton Street, Strand, and the builders Messrs. Perry and Co. Ltd. of Bow. The upper floors were designed as residential chambers and the ground floor and basement as a shop for Rumpelmayer's celebrated confiserie. (ref. 29) This building was designed in the 'François Premier' style, perhaps to suit Rumpelmayer's salons-de-thé. "
  7. ↑ Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway . German by Walter Boehlich , Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer, 2003. ISBN 3-596-14002-1
  8. ↑ Winold Reiss Chronology ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Charles Strum: Where Have All the Teddy Bears Gone? New York Times , February 6, 2000, accessed April 28, 2010 .

literature

  • Ingrid Haslinger, Erika Patka, Marie-Luise 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 .
  • Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Rumpelmayer, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rumpelmayer, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian confectioner and purveyor to the court
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1914
Place of death Canton of Saint-Martin-Vésubie