Blood Court (Koenigsberg)

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The great hall of the blood court with the five magnificent barrels

The blood dish was a historic wine and gourmet restaurant in Königsberg , which was housed in the cellar vaults of the north wing in Königsberg Castle . The naming is unknown, but probably goes back to the medieval blood jurisdiction of the sovereigns of Prussia.

history

Waiter with Krupsch

When the exile David Schindelmeißer had to leave his home as a result of the Salzburg emigration edict of 1731 , he settled in Königsberg. In 1738 he founded the wine bar in the castle, which was popular with the people of Königsberg, students and, above all, visitors to the city.

For this purpose, the visitors had to enter a small, inconspicuous cellar entrance below the stables in the inner courtyard of the palace , over which a sloping, provisional-looking roof was attached. The entire restaurant was set up in the wide-span barrel vaults . The grotto-like rooms of the underground catacomb labyrinth had names that were reminiscent of torture chambers of the Middle Ages: torture chamber, torment chamber, thieves' prison, pepper room, large bell or Spanish needle, etc. The unmistakable charm of the wine tavern included the cool humidity of the cellar atmosphere as well as the rough wooden furniture the matching interior of wheel-like, wrought-iron wall sconces and large artfully carved ceremonial barrels in the background as well as the models of old Hanseatic cogs on the ceiling. The "Krupsch" was the clothes of the waiters, who served the guests in proper style like coopers in a wine cellar in blue coats with tied leather aprons.

The blood dish was used in gastronomy until April 1945. After the city of Königsberg was conquered by the Red Army, the vaults of the blood court were blown up and demolished along with the rest of the castle in 1969.

The blood court was not only the first locality on the square, but also as internationally known as Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig or the Schweidnitzer Keller in Wroclaw. The guests included ETA Hoffmann , Richard Wagner , Lovis Corinth , Felix Dahn , Thomas Mann , Joachim Ringelnatz , Paul Wegener , Heinrich George , Fritz Skowronnek , Ernst von Wolzüge , Felix Graf Luckner , Prince Heinrich of Prussia and Gustav Stresemann . The wine bar was later expanded into a restaurant. In addition to Königsberger Klopsen and Königsberger Fleck , ox blood was the specialty. The fact that the Königsberg Higher Regional Court met on the upper floor of the building will also have contributed to the “entertainment” of the guests .

In 1949 a newspaper reported that the heirs of the Schindelmeißer family were planning to open a successor to the establishment under the same name in Frankfurt am Main . It is unknown whether this was implemented and how long this new foundation existed.

Memory of Königsberg

Siegfried Schindelmeiser (1901–1986) wrote the (unsung) student song " Memories of Königsberg" in the 1970s . You can sing it to Heidelberg you youthful well-being or not just doing your duty .

Königsberg am Pregelstrande,
Prussia's old coronation city
In the German fatherland
You have often been forgotten:
No hills of vine waving
from the banks of your river,
Not the stars of the south flashing
On the roofs of your cathedral.

Happy student
years You will remain a cheerful setting.
Bleach the blond hair too,
Your image still lives in the heart:
Furthermore, the thoughts circle
around your castle and its pond
And in your ears you hear wise men
from the green kingdom of the hooves.

Where girls sit in gardens,
When the daylight fled,
blinking blue eyes
On the slender
son of a muse : With music and chatting,
How time flies by,
Until after repeated hesitation
the child reminds you to leave.

Yes, the times have passed,
all traces long gone.
What the ancients once sang,
in the youth rises.
As the wind
throws the ocean waves again and again ashore,
the new time comes flying:
And it does not last either.

But in the castle in the cool cellar
flows a noble grape juice;
And the hearts beat faster,
Zecht there old brotherhood:
Open conversations wrap
your wreath around the past and present
And to ever new things
The spirit is set in flight: Lady's honor , racket sounds

,
noble horses, bright beach;
Girls' laughter, crowds,
serious work, fatherland!
And the wine displaces the years,
And the lip speaks eloquently:
“Drinking remains the only real thing!
Bring a cheer to the blood court! "

literature

  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German land and life in single descriptions . 2, city stories), (reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 ( historical library )).
  • Walter Franz : From the blood court to Königsberg , 2nd edition. Milte, Heidelberg 1970.
  • Paul Trains: In the blood court in Königsberg . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1928

Web links

Commons : Blutgericht (Königsberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  2. ^ "Blood Court is New in Frankfurt", in: Wir Ostpreußen, Vol. 1, No. 4 (March 15, 1949), p. 4
  3. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. , 2 volumes. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 . GoogleBooks

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 37.3 "  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 41.3"  E