Café Mozart (Vienna)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
The outside of the Café Mozart

The Café Mozart is a classic Viennese coffee house in the 1st district in Vienna, on Albertinaplatz . The Albertina Museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the coffee house .

history

For centuries, the current location of the Café Mozart was home to the Bürgerspitalzinshaus , which was built on a 1305 by Rudolf III. donated nunnery and hospital goes back. From 1783 to 1790 the citizens' hospital was converted into an apartment building (10 courtyards, 20 staircases, 220 apartments, numerous shops). The most prominent tenants were Ferdinand Raimund's father, Franz Grillparzer and Emanuel Schikaneder (librettist for the Magic Flute).

Three years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death, a certain Georg Pöhlein opened a café in the Bürgerspitalzinshaus. This was taken over by Simon Corra in 1825, who built Vienna's first classic pub garden with tables, chairs and potted plants. A new takeover took place in 1840: From then on, the coffee house bore the name of the new owner - namely Café Katzmayer - and was a meeting place for journalists, actors and writers. In the course of urban renewal, the Bürgerspitalzinshaus was demolished between 1873 and 1883 (1882: demolition of the coffee house), and a number of new houses were built on its site, as well as Tegetthoffstraße, Führich- and Maysedergasse. In the newly built house on the corner of Maysedergasse and Albrechtsplatz (after 1920: Albertinaplatz ), a restaurant opened again on October 10, 1918, the “Mozart Restaurant”, which was named “Café Mozart” in 1929, following the “Katzmayer”. This name refers to the Mozart monument that stood on Albertinaplatz until 1945 (since 1953 in the Burggarten ). Also in 1929 the coffee house was taken over by the Hornik family, who ran it until 1985. The Japanese department store chain Mitsukoshi then bought it and had it redesigned. In 1994 it was taken over by the Querfeld family, who renovated it and has continued it as an old Viennese coffee house ever since .

  • August 17, 1945

  • September 1973

Café Mozart in the film

The British writer Graham Greene wrote the screenplay for the 1948 film The Third Man . In 1947 he lived in Vienna in the Hotel Sacher and frequented the Café Mozart. He had a scene played in the café garden of Café Mozart, the name of the place in the film was "Old Vienna". Even Anton Karas , who wrote the theme music for this film, composed a "Café Mozart Waltz".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrechtsplatz (1) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Advertisement in the Neue Freie Presse
  3. ↑ Monuments of Vienna's Ringstrasse - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on viennatouristguide.at (Mozart monument, name of the café), accessed on September 28, 2017

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '15 "  N , 16 ° 22' 9.9"  E