Café Eiles

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The Café Eiles
The entrance at Josefstädter Straße 2

The Café rope is a Viennese coffee in the 8th district of Vienna Josefstadt on the corner Josefstädterstraße 2 and Landesgerichtsstraße .

architecture

At Café Eiles ...
... with a view of the vaults

The building was built in 1839/40 by the “bourgeois town builder” Anton Grünn for the “shawl and sheep wool manufacturer” Joseph Burde. The design for this example of the building activity of the Vormärz "which stood out in an imposing way due to the great buildings that differed from the usual apartment buildings, barracks and hospital styles" came from the architect Florian Schaden.

The relief of the gable triangle of the otherwise simply designed facade represents the Pallas Athene . The particularly tasteful and elegant furnishings and the 19 large windows were particularly praised for that time. "With the building's favorable position, the coffee house enjoys the view of the morning, midday and evening sides."

The design of the walls and high vaults with lime green arabesques was created by the "carpenter" Paul Holzer. The furniture was made from finely grained ash wood by the master carpenter Johann Knill. The mirror frames were supplied by the gilder Anton Breyer. The portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I was created by the history painter Eduard Schaller. The "Meissner heating" provided pleasant warmth and ventilation. Until 1857 there was a platform for the guests on the roof of the house with a flower garden and a view over the Josefstädter Glacis to the inner city .

history

The house "Josefstadt, Am Glacis 209" (today at the corner of Auerspergstraße 3 / Trautsongasse 2) opposite the Palais Auersperg has housed the popular Café Motéle since 1821, which moved into its new location on November 15, 1840 in the newly built house at Josefstädter Straße 2 .

Thanks to Adolf Bäuerle's benevolent reporting in his Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung about the new coffee house, it soon developed into a meeting place for artists and the military. Regular guests included Ferdinand Sauter and Wenzel Messenhauser , and Friedrich Hebbel lived in an apartment in this house on Lenaugasse from 1846 to 1850.

In the 1850s it was taken over by Hagn and attracted new audiences. While it was a meeting place during the day for respected Viennese citizens, the half-world of Vienna gathered there in the late evening hours .

Since the opening of the Reichsrat building in 1883, numerous members of parliament have met in the coffee house; Mayor Eduard Uhl was a regular guest. Coffee maker Alois Haasmann took over management in 1875, followed by his son Karl from 1885 to 1896.

In 1901 Friedrich Eiles took over the establishment and had Adolf Tremmel adapt it in Art Nouveau style . Alois Ortner designed the facility, which largely still exists today, when it was redesigned in 1933. In the course of a renovation in 1994, only the boxes were removed.

On 23 July 1934, this cafe the last meeting of the illegal Nazis took place before the July Putsch instead.

In the 1950s, a group of scientists around August von Loehr and Rudolf Geyer met here every week .

Today (2013) the building is owned by KSV from 1870 .

literature

  • Friedrich Eiles: History of the "Café Eiles". Vienna 1905
  • Theo Trummer: Hebbel in Vienna. The Josefstädter Heimatmuseum, No. 36, Vienna March 1964, p. 288.
  • Hans Pemmer : The Lenaugasse. The Josefstädter Heimatmuseum, No. 49/50, Vienna December 1968, p. 238.
  • Café Eiles in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  • Hans Veigl : Viennese coffee house manager . Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00587-6 .
  • Bartel F. Sinhuber: A guest in old Vienna. Memories of hotels, taverns and coffee houses, beer cellars, wine bars and excursion restaurants . Amalthea, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85002-409-1 .
  • Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian architecture in the 20th century. Volume III / 2. Vienna 1. – 12. District. Residence, Vienna / St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3208-1 , p. 231.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Schaden, Florian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . Volume 29. Verlag LC Zamarski, Vienna 1875, p. 39f.
  2. ^ Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung from December 4, 1840.
  3. ↑ Enthusiastic about his apartment, which was above the café, he wrote in his diary on October 10, 1846: “It is an extremely pleasant feeling, at some point the peak of desires, which for me always goes far beyond the peak of hope to have achieved. "
  4. ↑ KSV 1870 buys Café Eiles-Haus . APA-OTS notification dated April 2, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 17.6 ″  E