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The Café Korb at the fire site

The Café Korb is a traditional cafe at the conflagration 9 / Tuchlauben 10 in the 1st District of Vienna , Inner City .

history

The interior of the café has been preserved in the style of the 1950s

At the end of March 1903, work began under the Tuchlauben on the new management building planned by architect Julius Mayreder (1860–1911) for the Municipal Emperor Franz Joseph Life and Pension Insurance Institution, which was founded in 1898 . The keystone was laid on March 26, 1904 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The ground floor, mezzanine and basement were rented out by the insurance company, which enabled the Korb company, which until then had been in the Tuchlauben 11 building opposite ( Kleeblatthaus ), to move into a new restaurant.

In the 1950s, the basket operated by the Widl family was redesigned in a contemporary way - the 1950s architecture has been preserved to this day.

In 2002 the operator Susanne Widl opened the artlounge designed by Peter Weibel , Peter Kogler , Manfred Wolff-Plottegg and Günter Brus in the basement . Readings take place here (for example by Peter Turrini or Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek , who is credited with the quote “Anyone who knows Cafe Korb, goes back again and again!” ), And intellectuals meet here at regular intervals at the Vienna Philosopher's Cafe - Die Return of communication .

After a water pipe burst, the toilet area in the basement was redesigned in a futuristic design by Manfred Wolff-Plottegg in 2004. For this work Wolff-Plottegg received recognition at the Aluminum Architecture Prize 2004 .

Homemade apple strudel is a specialty of Café Korb . The café garden is located between the short street front to the Tuchlauben and the Tuchmacherbrunnen .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Mayreder. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  2. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Suddenly died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 9739/1891, October 7, 1891, p. 2, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ Laying of the keystone. In:  Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 70/1904, March 26, 1904, p. 5, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ↑ Guests . In: Susanne Widl (Ed.): Cafekorb.at , January 20, 2008, accessed on July 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ Jan Tabor , Falter : Toilets in the Café Korb. Sensuality in the basement . In: nextroom.at , July 21, 2004, accessed on January 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Andrej Hrausky: Madam in Café Korb . In: plottegg.tuwien.ac.at , accessed on January 10, 2013.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition, the coffee maker Amalie Korb and her husband Alfons († 1891) ran a kiosk on the nearby Graben . - See: Koráb - Korn . In: Lehmann's general housing indicator . Volume 33.1891, ZDB -ID 2642521-X . Hölder, Vienna 1891, p. 671, middle left, online. , as well as (picture description :) In the grave kiosk belonging to Café Korb (No. 144), which was located northwest of the plague column, in the direction of the Kohlmarkt . In: Christian Brandstätter , Franz Hubmann , Emil Mayer (photo): Back then in Vienna. People at the turn of the century . First edition. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-532-2 , p. 66 below, online .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '36.3 "  N , 16 ° 22' 14.1"  E