Café Mozart (Salzburg)
The Café Mozart is located in the Getreidegasse 22 in Salzburg and was on 6 October 1923 by the brothers Ambros and Alois Crozzoli opened under that name. If you include the history of the so-called Gerlich and Erich coffee house, it is considered to be the second oldest café in Salzburg.
Founding of the Café Mozart
Ambros and Alois Crozzoli were a Friulian master builder couple who worked in Salzburg. In 1919 the Salzburg furniture dealer Emmerich Schlecht sold his property at Getreidegasse 22 (vault and 1st floor) to the Crozzoli brothers; an Italian wine bar was to be built there. However, the brothers built the Café Mozart on the first floor. The festival opened in Salzburg on August 22, 1920 with Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann , directed by Max Reinhardt . During this period after the First World War, the company hoped for an economic upswing, from which the initiators of the new coffee house also hoped to benefit. The governor of Salzburg, Franz Rehrl , sent a letter to the initiators of the opening of the café, and the Austrian local poet Otto Pflanzl even dedicated a poem to the brothers, the first stanza of which reads as follows:
“'Zum Mozart' hoaß'ns dös Kafeehaus
S'is a Nam who speaks a lot, Koa Tamtam net, big and mighty And do right liabli, beautiful and simple "
In the opening year, the “Salzburger Schachgesellschaft 1910” (from 1950 “First Salzburg Chess Club 1910, Mozart”) moved from the Café Corso to the Café Mozart, which thus became a valued chess café - also for Stefan Zweig . Since the Crozzoli company went bankrupt in 1927, Karl Schanzer bought the Café Mozart, had it renovated and reopened it under the name "Coffee and Wine Restaurant Mozart". In 1930 Karl Kutscha appears as the tenant; In 1935 Leo and Vally Kutscha bought the coffee house. In the 1930s, the café became a meeting place for numerous artists such as Slavi Soucek, Eduard Bäumer , Hilde Heger , Felix Albrecht Harta , Meinhard von Zallinger and Roland von Bohr , musicians such as Bernhard Paumgartner , Friedrich Gulda and writers such as Alois Grasmayr or Ludwig Praehauser.
The Gerlich'sche and the Erich'sche coffee house as a forerunner of the Café Mozart
In Salzburg, the court confectioner Virgil Hartensteiner had already received a coffee house concession from Archbishop Franz Anton in the 17th century . In 1734 the marriage of Hartensteiner's daughter to Johann Franz Gerlich took place and the second (the so-called Gerling'sche) coffee house was built in Salzburg in the middle of the 18th century. In 1751, the couple acquired the house at Getreidegasse No. 24, which then housed the coffee house. The daughter of the Gerlichs married the official of the cathedral chapter Leopold Erich for the second time and therefore the coffeehouse was renamed the Erich'sche coffee brewery as "coffee and chocolate bar-bar of Leopold Erich". From this family there is also a connection to Café Tomaselli , as Erich's stepdaughter Antonia Honikel (or Honigl) married the court tenorist Giuseppe Tomaselli, whose son Karl ran the predecessor of Café Tomaselli, the Staiger'sche Kaffeehaus, on March 12, 1852. acquired.
Ownership of the coffee house passed from the Erichs to the Gasparotti family. The "middle-class coffee maker" Sophie Gasparotti also bought the first floor of the house at Getreidegasse 22 in 1824 and moved the coffee house there. In 1833 Sophie Gasparotti sold her son Joseph the "free first floor including the coffee and materialist vault in the coffeemaker's dwelling and the sellable civil coffee and chocolate serving rights registered in the municipal trade cadastre from 1804". After the sale of Café Gasparotti to Elisabeth Wimmer in 1859, a relatively large number of changes of ownership followed and the café's good reputation was lost. It was not until the Crozzolis in 1923 that a new tradition was established in the coffee house now known as Café Mozart.
Café Mozart after the Second World War
After the Second World War, Café Mozart housed the officers' club of the 756th American Tank Battalion from May to October 1945.
The Café Mozart also became a location for literary performances in the 1970s. Back then, Sepp Dreissinger founded the series “Literature in Café Mozart”. Artists like HC Artmann , Dieter Hildebrandt , Werner Schneyder , André Heller and Erika Pluhar performed in Café Mozart and made it the city's literary café. Regular guests included Thomas Bernhard , Herwig Seeböck and Rudolf Bayr . In September the owners opened the "Gallery above the Café Mozart" (now the Kutscha Gallery) on the third floor of the building. In 1983 Claudia Karner took over the artistic direction of “Literatur im Café Mozart” for five years. At that time Ottfried Fischer , Jockel Tschiersch , Piano-Paul and Rudolf Klaffenböck performed here. Young, then still unknown artists such as Walter Müller , Manfred Koch and Fritz Kohles also made their debuts here. Until the end of 1995 the café was owned by Fritz and Maria Kutscha. From 1995 to 2006, however, the café was closed and served as a clothes store for a clothing store.
Café Mozart today
The Upper Austrian restaurateur Kurt Ranzenberger reactivated the coffee house in 2006. Claudia Karner also revived the readings as part of “Literature in Café Mozart” from 2008 onwards. In 2008 the artists Werner Friedl, Georg Clementi , Christian Wallner and Leo Braune performed. These events continue to this day.
In addition to various coffee specialties and numerous types of tea, Café Mozart also offers typical Austrian desserts such as Kaiserschmarrn , Powidltatschkerln , apricot dumplings or Salzburger Nockerln , the latter in the original version and not - as in other restaurants - in a touristic reduced form.
literature
- Walburg Schobersberger: The construction company Crozzoli and other building contractors from Friuli. Your importance for Salzburg. In: Salzburg Archive. Writings of the association "Friends of Salzburg History". Vol. 34, 2010, ZDB -ID 2379825-7 , pp. 455-502.
- Walburga Schobersberger: From the vaulted café to the literary café. In: Salzburg Archive. Writings of the association "Friends of Salzburg History". Vol. 20, 1995, pp. 321-358.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 33.5 ″ E