Café Dommayer

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Café Dommayer

The Café Dommayer is a concert café in the 13th district of  Vienna , Hietzing . It is reminiscent of Dommayer's Casino , set up in 1832, in which Johann Strauss 'father , Josef Lanner and the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss' son performed very successfully.

The Dommayer

The old Casino Dommayer - today the Parkhotel Schönbrunn is located here

The village of Hietzing , today known as Alt-Hietzing, is seen from the city center or the former city, out of town behind the area of Schönbrunn Palace on the southern bank of the Wien River . Here a waiter named Dick built a coffee house in 1787 on a plot of land opposite the Maria Hietzing (Maria Hietzing) parish church , which was very popular with day trippers in the vicinity. In 1817 the Hietzinger Hahnwirt Reiter acquired the property and expanded the restaurant into an inn, which his son-in-law Ferdinand Dommayer (1799–1858) took over in 1823 ( Dommayer's coffeehouse and traiteur house ) and between 1828/29 and 1833 expanded it into a casino with a dance hall: Ein The new hall, completed in 1829, was created according to plans by the architect and master carpenter Josef Leistler (1802-1856) and from the end of June 1833 served the dance and representation hall designed by the architect Johann Baptist Rupp (brother of the Milanese architect Ladislaus Rupp , 1793-1854) (20, 8 by 12.3 m; greatest height: 9.5 m) as an antechamber. Amusement establishments of this kind were very popular in the Biedermeier period and then in the city of Vienna , which was still surrounded by walls until the beginning of the 1860s .

Johann Strauss' father , who premiered several of his works here , played in this newly established amusement establishment, soon only called the Dommayer , as did his colleague and competitor Joseph Lanner . On October 15, 1844 ( Theresientag ), Johann Strauss Sohn gave his debut as a conductor of his own orchestra here for the rendezvous of the elegant world , combined with the world premiere of four of his compositions. With its dance hall, the bar was one of the city's leading entertainment venues and was known for its lavish ball nights. After the death of Ferdinand Dommayer on March 5, 1858, his son Franz Dommayer (1822–1900) took over the restaurant, followed in 1889 by Paul Hopfner (1839–1926). In 1903 there was a plan to build a theater instead of the casino, which would also offer halls for concerts and balls. Josef Jarno (1866–1932) was to be the director of the theater .

In 1908 the Casino Dommayer gave way to the Parkhotel Schönbrunn founded by Paul Hopfner .

Dommayerhof and Café Dommayer

Entrance area and pub garden
inside view

After the First World War , the Schneyer family opened the Dommayerhof  - a coffee house with a music pavilion - in Dommayergasse, named after Ferdinand Dommayer in 1894 , to take advantage of the well-known name. This restaurant existed from 1924 to 1931.

In 1935 the Senal family, who ran it until 1963, reopened the café as Café Dommayer. The Gerersdorfer family then took it over and ran it again in the tradition of a concert café until 2006. During this time, the restaurant was often used as a location for filming. During the renovation in 1991 - after a fire in the apartment above the coffee house - the original condition of the concert café was restored. In 2006 the Kurkonditorei Oberlaa , founded in 1974 on the occasion of a Vienna international garden show in the Oberlaa district of the 10th district next to the Therme Wien , took over the business from Gert Gerersdorfer and has been running it since then, maintaining its peculiarities. The Kurkonditorei is also known for its first-class patisserie production.

Location

Café Dommayer is located on the corner of Dommayergasse and Auhofstraße on Anna-Strauss-Platz in the oldest part of the district, Alt-Hietzing . On the street side on Auhofstraße there is a pub garden . On Dommayergasse, the one-story, L-shaped building is followed by a larger coffeehouse garden with a music pavilion, in which women's bands sometimes play Viennese waltzes . The piano is played in the restaurant. In the café, now one of the most famous in Vienna, pâtisserie is also sold to take away.

Dommayer in the Wienerlied

In the Wiener Lied Droben vom Penzinger Kircherl, written by Franz Allmeder (1871-1941) and set to music by Roman Domanig-Roll (1882-1938) in 1925 (Penzing was the northern neighboring village of Alt-Hietzings, which became the 13th district, Hietzing, from 1892-1938) belonged) was reminded of a Biedermeier Dommayer mood. The song was distributed on records by some Viennese song singers, including in 1965 by Peter Alexander .

In 1963, the song in the cartoon was Hietzinger memories quoted Erich Sokol made in the Vienna daily newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung Nikita Khrushchev front of an old gramophone sitting on the song runs while before Kennedy photo to the Vienna Vienna Summit of 1961 thinks.

Even Oskar Werner interpreted the song in 1981 on the record Weaner songs from Erik Werba accompanied on the piano.

The rustling waltzes in my ears
the waltzes of Lanner and Strauss ,
a little infatuation in the heart,
so it comes from the Dommayer z'Haus.
The cookies, as blue as the birds ,
they shine full of lust and joy.
Sixth people, that's how it was in Vienna in thirty
in the golden, cozy time!

literature

Web links

Commons : Café Dommayer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dommayer - Hietzing . In: Anna Hartmann, Erika Flemmich (ed.): Memories of an old Viennese woman . So that it is not lost ..., Volume 41, ZDB -ID 742753-0 . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 1998, ISBN 3-205-98848-5 , p. 393 f. - online .
  2. ↑ About the new splendid hall in the Dommeyer'schen Caffehshaus in Hietzing. From a letter to the editor. In:  Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and original journal for art, literature, music, fashion and social life , No. 135/1844 (XXVI. Year), July 6, 1833, p. 541 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  3. ↑ a b p. (D. I. Ferdinand von Seyfried , 1811–1865):  Courier of the theater and spectacle. (…) (Vienna.) We have paid our tribute to nature, (…). In:  The Wanderer in the Fields of Art and Science, Industry and Commerce, Theater and Sociability , No. 245/1844 (XXXI. Volume), October 11, 1844, p. 980, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / wan.
  4. ↑ ( Advertisement ):  Invitation to the Soirée dansante (…). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 286/1844, October 15, 1844, p. 2114, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz;
    Wgr .:  Strauss's son, - his first appearance at Dommayer in Hietzing. In:  The Wanderer in the Fields of Art and Science, Industry and Commerce, Theater and Sociability , No. 250/1844 (XXXI. Volume), October 17, 1844, p. 1000. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / wan;
    (Franz) Wiest:  Courier through Vienna's night and day life. Ostrich son. In:  The Wanderer in the Fields of Art and Science, Industry and Commerce, Theater and Sociability , No. 252/1844 (XXXI. Volume), October 19, 1844, p. 1005 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / wan.
  5. ↑ Death notice. (...) Ferdinand Dommayer, casino owner in Hietzing, (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 54/1858, March 7, 1858, p. 725, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  6. ↑ Theater newspaper. The new theater in Hietzing. In:  Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , No. 357/1903 (XXXII. Volume), December 29, 1903, p. 7, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / iwe.
  7. ↑ ( obituary ):  Instead of any special announcement (...) Paul Hopfner sen (ior). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 22033/1926, January 16, 1926, p. 22, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp;
    Little chronicle. (...) Death of the restaurateur Paul Hopfner sen (ior). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 22032/1926, January 15, 1926, p. 6, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  8. ↑ Erich Sokol: AZ-Karikaturen 63 , Sozialistischer Verlag, Vienna undated, without page numbers
  9. ↑ Oskar Werner sings ' s Penzinger Kircherl

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 12.3 "  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 54.4"  E