Café Kranzler
The Stammhaus Café Kranzler was a famous Berlin café in the historic center of the capital. His branch in the west of Berlin , in today's district of Charlottenburg , was a West Berlin institution and until the end of 1999 a popular attraction for tourists and celebrities.
history
In 1825, the Viennese confectioner journeyman Johann Georg Kranzler opened a modest pastry shop on the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Unter den Linden 25 in a shop on the ground floor. After the renovation and heightening of the building by August Stüler in 1834 , Kranzler expanded his establishment to the entire ground floor and the first floor. A special attraction since 1833 was a so-called "ramp", a street terrace which, under the protection of the king, withstood all attempts by the building police to remove it. Placing tables on the street was a novelty at the time. In 1911 the Kranzler heiresses sold the house and the pastry shop to the Hotel-Betriebs-Aktiengesellschaft .
Until 1933, the chief spokesman for Funk-Hour Berlin , Alfred Braun , reported every year on New Year's Eve from the balcony of the house how Berlin welcomed the New Year.
On May 7, 1944, the house at Unter den Linden 25 was destroyed by Allied air raids . Just before the end of the war, the Kranzler opened a new location on the south side of the "Linden" on the corner of Charlottenstrasse, adorned with the rescued gold mosaic frieze.
Branch in Berlin-Charlottenburg
In 1932 a branch opened under the name of Restaurant und Konditorei Kranzler in the rooms of the former Café des Westens at Kurfürstendamm 18/19 on the corner of Joachimsthaler Straße . After it was destroyed in the war in 1945, operations were initially resumed in 1951 in a low-rise building designed by Paul Schwebes . After its demolition, the striking two-storey building with a mounted rotunda and red and white striped awning was built in 1957/1958 according to plans by Hanns Dustmann . Since reopening in 1958, the café has once again been a West Berlin institution and a landmark of City-West .
The appearance of the Berlin cabaret legend Wolfgang Neuss in 1983 is a lasting memory : In the talk show Menschen moderated by Wolfgang Menge , Neuss named the then ruling mayor of Berlin and Richard von Weizsäcker, who was nominated as Federal President , “Richie” and “Chief Silberlocke” and spoke to him in a humorous way. disrespectful in the manner of a fun guerrilla .
Udo Lindenberg rhymed in his 1984 recording Russen : “In 15 minutes the Russians will be on Kurfürstendamm. They leave their tanks in the parking garage and want to see the cream cakes in Café Kranzler. "
The Berlin painter Matthias Koeppel immortalized the Kranzler-Eck in his triptych celebrations of the century (1987/1988) on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary . The historic coffee house closed in 2000 .
On December 27th, 2000, it reopened under the old name in the Neues Kranzler Eck quarter designed by Helmut Jahn , who was also responsible for the Sony Center , exclusively in the area of the rotunda as a café during the day and as a bar in the evening. The clothing company Gerry Weber took over the café . It closed again at the end of 2015.
The British textile retail chain Superdry now uses the house and has leased the café. The new Café Kranzler reopened on December 4, 2016 and is now operated as a branch of the Berlin coffee roastery The Barn . Since the building is still under monument protection, hardly anything has changed externally. However, the interiors have been completely renewed.
Branch in Frankfurt
From the 1950s to the late 1980s, Steigenberger KG operated a branch in the Allianz building at Hauptwache . A steak house later moved into the rooms. Until the renovation of the building in 2005, the old illuminated advertising of the Kranzler was still installed.
literature
- Stadtmuseum Berlin: Unter den Linden - historical photographs , Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87584-109-3 .
Web links
- The jug is back. In: Friday , November 5, 2012
- Kranzler am Kurfürstendamm - Interactive 360 ° panorama
- The celebrations of the century by Matthias Koeppel
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the illustration from March 1945 and Ilse Stremlow: Berlin, beloved home! Technology and Culture, Berlin 1949, p. 62
- ↑ Well: Panorama: Berlin: The legendary Café Kranzler is reopening. In: Badische Zeitung . December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Cay Dobberke and Jana Demnitz: Berlin-Charlottenburg: Café Kranzler returns with a view of the Ku'damm. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 .
- ↑ The new opening of Café Kranzler is a culture shock . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 14, 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 15 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 51 ″ E