Café Dutch

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Outside view of Café Holländer

The Café Dutchman was a existing from 1906 to 1956 Café in Elberfeld , now a suburb of Wuppertal .

history

The building on Islandufer 5 was erected in 1906 as a dome-reinforced corner building following the Neue Fuhr , architecturally in Art Nouveau style and optically designed to attract attention. In 1907, C. Heymann's repertory of technical journal literature described the construction as “made of stone, concrete and iron”. According to this, the building had electrical lighting by means of a suction gas system, low-pressure steam heating and an electrically operated passenger elevator. The café was furnished with furniture by the Austrian designer Adolf Loos . Musical groups often performed in the establishment.

After the extensive destruction of the district around Brausenwerth in 1943 by the air raid on Elberfeld in World War II , the building was only temporarily repaired and demolished in June 1956. The literature describes the coffee house as “an exquisite big city café where generations of Wuppertal people have danced”.

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  • Café Holländer to the left of the suspension railway

literature

  • Baedekers Rheinlande , 1925, p. 305.
Fiction
  • When the writer Ernst Toller came to Elberfeld for a reading on February 17, 1925, the Berlin- born poet Else Lasker-Schüler implored her Elberfeld friend Karl Krall to show the writer her parents' house and to take him to Café Holländer . She addressed the café in her work Unmotivated Cigarette Steam .
  • Fritz Hüser from the Dortmund group 61 described the coffee house in his letters as "something like a literary café".
  • In his travelogue, a British traveler wrote in 1910: “In the Café Holländer in Elberfeld I ate dinner with three of the group, one of whom indicated that we had been served horse meat. To clarify this assumption, we turned to the head waiter, who sharply rejected this in very proper English and announced in a loud voice that horse meat was not served in any of the Elberfeld restaurants. "

Web links

Commons : Café Holländer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General-Anzeiger Wuppertal from July 18, 1956. In: Hinrich Heyken: Die Talstraße. The city's traffic axis. Part A: Planning and construction 1930–1972. P. 30.
  2. ^ Repertory of technical journal literature 1906. C. Heymann, 1907, p. 60.
  3. ↑ Julio Vives Chillida: El Café Holländer de Elberfeld-Wuppertal (Germany). In: muebledeviena.com of November 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Marbacher Magazin. Issues 71–72, Schiller National Museum and German Literature Archive Marbach , 1995, ISBN 3-92914-626-6 , p. 196.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Schrader: “Nobody recognized me.” Else Lasker-Schüler in Wuppertal. Old Synagogue meeting place , Wuppertal 2003.
  6. ^ Fritz Hüser , Jasmin Grande (Ed.): Fritz Hüser 1908-1979: Briefe. Assoverlag, 2008, p. 30.
  7. ↑ Original text: “In the Café Holländer, at Elberfeld, I had tea with three of the party, one of whom made the suggestion that we had been served with horseflesh. We appealed to the head waiter, who spoke fair English, for confirmation of the assertion, and he somewhat hotly repudiated the idea, exclaiming rather loudly that it was impossible to obtain horseflesh in any Elberfeld restaurant. "
    In: Reports on Labor and Social Conditions in Germany. Volumes 1 to 2, Tariff Reform League, London 1910, p. 100.