Café Corso (Salzburg)

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Café Corso in Salzburg

The Café Corso in the city of Salzburg (Imbergstraße 2, Robert Jungk Platz 1, Giselakai 19) is a former coffee house. The Jahnturnhalle belonging to the Salzburg gymnastics club is attached to the building .

In 1894, Jakob Ceconi built the twin house "Turner Hof" on Imbergstrasse between the Karolinenbrücke and the Staatsbrücke in the wake of the Salzach regulation. On July 10, 1895, he applied for a café concession and opened the Corso café on July 16, 1895. The first cafetier was Johann Wortner. In 1897, the Viennese cafetier Georg Krimml continued this café. The rooms above the restaurant were rented out as apartments. Despite its good location and a beautiful garden (the Mozartsteg did not yet exist at that time), the business did not want to go well. That is why Krimmel campaigned for the construction of the Mozart footbridge , which was also built in 1903. Krimmel is also said to have suggested the construction of the Makart footbridge .

In front of the Thurnerhof, the Siegmund-Thun memorial was unveiled on June 19, 1900, and it no longer exists today.

In 1903 Krimmel gave up Café Corso and took over Café National in the Faberhaus. The Café Corso was run by Josef Lex junior until 1906. in 1907 followed by Charlotte Crips, 1908 Jakob Heissenberger and from 1909 to 1917 Leopold Götzinger. In the 1920s the house belonged to the Salzburg family Rajsigl (wholesale of groceries and commodities), tenants were Rudolf Ebenhoch, in 1929 Franz Heidl and in 1932 Franz Hebsacker. In 1931 the master baker Hans Schwarz from Steyr bought the house and the café. From then on it was run as the Corso dance café .

During the time of National Socialism , dancing was prohibited in Salzburg from 1943; the rooms of the café were rented to the German Wehrmacht and a uniform tailor's shop and a Wehrmacht kitchen were set up in the house. The second bombing raid on Salzburg on November 17, 1944 caused severe damage to the building.

After the Second World War , it was rebuilt in 1949/50 in the style of the “new era”. As early as 1949, the dance café Corso and the rest of the building were reopened as Hotel Corso with 29 rooms. The hotel was booked by festival artists at the time. For example, Hans Moser signed the guest book in September 1954, Curd Jürgens on December 15, 1953; followed by Gunther Philipp , Gusti Wolf , Cornelia Froboess and many others.

In 1959 the building was renovated again, but in 1966 the hotel and coffee business was completely closed. In 1979 the State of Salzburg rented the building. After another renovation, it became the home of adult education from 1981 to 2014.

  • Café Corso
  • Café Corso: photo taken from Giselakai
  • Café Corso: Copies of the dwarfs from the Mirabell Gardens

literature

  • Peter Walder-Gottsbacher: Nonntal - Inner and Outer Stone in Ancient Views. European Library, Zaltbommel 1996, ISBN 90-288-6349-4 .
  • Walburga Schobersberger: From the vaulted café to the literary café. In: Salzburg Archive. Writings of the association "Friends of Salzburg History". Vol. 20, 1995, ZDB -ID 2379825-7 , pp. 321-358.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landeskorrespondenz - Landeskorrespondenz detailed view. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Adult Education Salzburg .

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 2 "  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 56.5"  E