Auerbach's Cellar
Auerbachs Keller is the best known and second oldest restaurant in Leipzig . Auerbachs Keller, which was one of the most popular wine bars in the city as early as the 16th century, owes its worldwide fame, especially to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
history
Auerbachs Keller is located at Grimmaische Strasse 2-4 in the center of Leipzig, only a few steps away from the market, under the Mädlerpassage . The cellar is divided into two areas: the four historic wine taverns ( barrel cellar , Luther room , Goethe room and old Leipzig ) as well as the additional large cellar , which was built in 1912 together with the Mädlerpassage exhibition center.
The wine bar was mentioned as early as 1438. The restaurant got its current name after the former builder and owner, the Leipzig city council, doctor and university professor Heinrich Stromer , who after his birthplace Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate only “Dr. Auerbach ”and in 1508 also served as the rector of the university.
In 1519 Stromer bought a piece of land for 3500 guilders that bordered Grimmaische Strasse and Neumarkt and on which he built Auerbach's farm from 1530 to 1538 . He set up a wine bar in the existing cellar.
During his studies in Leipzig from 1765 to 1768, Goethe often stayed in Auerbach's cellar. Here he saw the two pictures on wood, created around 1625, on which the magician and astrologer Faust pokos with students and - on the other - rides out to the door on a wine barrel. He already knew the Faust legend from childhood through the puppet show by Dr. Faust performed at fairs. With the scene Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig in Faust I , he has set a permanent literary monument to his student bar and the city: “I praise my Leipzig! It's a little Paris and educates its people. "
From 1912 to 1913, Auerbachs Keller was largely rebuilt and expanded in the course of the demolition of the medieval buildings above and the establishment of the Mädlerpassage exhibition center. The opening took place on February 22, 1913. The two groups of figures, the double statue of Mephisto and Faust and the group of enchanted students by the sculptor Mathieu Molitor at the entrance to Auerbach's cellar, were created in the Leipzig Noack bronze art foundry founded in 1899 by Traugott Noack (1865–1941) .
Auerbach's cellar around 1840
Auerbach's courtyard with entrance to the cellar (1884)
Tavern signs on Auerbach's cellar (2013)
Bronze group Faust and Mephisto, who enchants the students (2016)
The Enchanted Students (2016)
Web links
- Auerbachs Keller (homepage of the operator)
- Illustrations for the scene "Auerbachs Keller" in Goethe's "Faust"
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 31.5 ″ E