Café Okerterrassen

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"Café Okerterrassen" seen from Parkstrasse.
View with round bay window from Helmstedter Strasse.
Indoor shot, side Parkstrasse.

The Café Okerterrassen shortly usually only Okerterrassen called, is located in the Park Road 11 in Braunschweig . It opened in 1906 and was the city's oldest continuously running café until 2013.

history

Parkstrasse was laid out between 1860 and 1870. The listed Villa Parkstrasse 11 was built in 1872 as a plastered building in the style of late classicism for the Brunswick Finance Councilor Gravenhorst. It is situated on a plot of land to the west terraced steeply to Oker drops, and is one of only two buildings of the park road that the Second World War have survived and the post-war period in their original architectural form.

The building has three storeys on the Oker side and an elaborately designed round bay window with Corinthian columns . Originally designed in an L-shape by R. Bohse, the house was expanded to include single-storey extensions shortly after its completion on the east and south sides.

In 1906, the Broitzem master confectioner Kummer opened a “Viennese café” on the ground floor and ran it until 1931. In 1932, confectioner Flehnke took over the business and named it “Café Okerterrassen”. Since then, guests can sit on three terraces that slope down towards the Oker. This made the “Okerterrassen” the only terrace café in town. In 1938 the Schönebaum family followed, who ran the café for three generations until 2013. After a change of ownership, the café will no longer be operated.

Well-known guests and events

Well-known guests of the café include the actors Klaus Maria Brandauer , Hansjörg Felmy and Diether Krebs . In 1978 the crime scene episode “ Alles versonst ” with Commissioner Nagel (Diether Krebs) as well as Horst Michael Neutze and Monica Bleibtreu was filmed in Braunschweig, some scenes were played in the “Okerterrassen”.

Urban environment

Parkstrasse is at the westernmost end of the Eastern Ring Area . The café property borders directly on the Museum für Photographie in the south , a former gatehouse of the city from the 18th century at the western end of Helmstedter Straße .

The museum park, named after the Duke Anton Ulrich Museum , is located directly opposite the café on the western Oker side .

Impressions

  • Jetty (left) on the Oker . In the background the Steinweg Bridge.

  • The terraces.

literature

  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and city ring. Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 , pp. 232-233.
  • Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1996, ISBN 3-8271-8256-5 .
  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: Café Okerterrassen. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf, Norman-Mathias Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 173.

Web links

Commons : Parkstraße 11 (Braunschweig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Café Okerterrassen. In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. P. 173.
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, p. 91.
  3. ↑ a b Brief chronology of Parkstrasse and the café
  4. ↑ a b What will happen to the popular Café Okerterrassen?
  5. ↑ IMDb filming locations

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '47.4 "  N , 10 ° 32' 7.9"  E