Cafe pudding

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The Café Pudding on the round beach dune, in front of it the sculptural group "Seehunde" by Judith von Eßen (2006)
Aerial view of Café Pudding in a central location between the beach and the island village (2012)
The round beach dune still with beacon, 1907

The Café Pudding is a café on the East Frisian island of Wangerooge in Lower Saxony , which opened the 1949th It is in a prominent location on a round dune at the end of Zedeliusstraße as the main street of the island village and in front of the main beach of the island. Because of its location, the café is considered a landmark on the island.

history

In 1855 a beacon was erected on the dune as a navigation mark for coastal shipping . At the beginning of the First World War , the beacon was broken off, probably for military reasons. Even then, the dune was an important destination for the islanders and their bathers. Since it could be circled as far as the end of the main street on walks, the name pudding became common after the saying “I'll go for the pudding” . From 1930 the dune developed into a paved lookout point with stone stairs, benches and an information board.

During the Second World War , a bunker with a radio measuring device was built on the dune in the course of the military fortification of Wangerooges . After the war, a baker leased the bunker and demilitarized the building on the orders of the Canadian occupying forces . In 1948 he set up an ice cream and cake kiosk in the bunker and opened a café in it in 1949. In 1971 and 1972, a renovation took place in which the previous terrace was roofed and the building was enlarged by eight meters. The striking building is circular and fully glazed.

Web links

Commons : Café Pudding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the north story - Wangerooge. In: ndr.de. February 19, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Peters: About bunkers and ice bombs in the Wangerooger “Café Pudding”. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . April 29, 2013, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Stelljes: Only the tides change on Wangerooge. In: The world . October 6, 2010, accessed October 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E