Café Merkur

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Café Merkur building around 1920
At Café Merkur around 1920

The Café Merkur in Leipzig was a reading café in the style of the Viennese coffee house on the western edge of the city center (Dittrichring 5).

history

In 1877 the Café Carola was opened in the street An der Pleiße (today Dittrichring ) opposite the Thomaskirche and next to the entrance to the residential complex Lurgenstein's garden , which changed its name to Merkur after five years . The owner was called Richard Keil.

A display of over 300 newspapers and magazines as well as almost 300 address books were available.

The café was a popular place to stay for Leipzig artists. The guests included the painters Rüdiger Berlit and Max Schwimmer , the writers Erich Kästner , Hans Reimann and Joachim Ringelnatz as well as the theater people Eugen Ortner and Lina Carstens .

Café Merkur was destroyed in the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . The site lay fallow until the beginning of the 1990s. In 1995/1996 it was incorporated into the forecourt of the administration building of Dresdner Bank (now Commerzbank ).

literature

  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 85 .
  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 566 .
  • Ulla Heise: Leipzig coffee houses: Alfred Ahner in Merkur . Leipziger Blätter, No. 8 (1986), pp. 50/51

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 55 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19.8 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 14.6 ″  E