Café Reale
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The Café Reale was a coffee house on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden. In 1886 it was demolished for the construction of the art academy .
history
The Café Reale was planned and built in 1843 by Otto von Wolframsdorf as a restaurant on Brühl's Terrace. The building was modeled on a Greek temple and had three salons, one of which was used as a sales room. Other rooms were designed as play, smoking and conversation rooms. In summer, guests could also dine on the terrace.
By the middle of the 19th century, the Café Reale had developed into one of the most popular coffee houses in Dresden due to its central location . Under the direction of the Italian Johann Hercules Samuel Torniamenti, who had learned from the pastry chef Baldini in Dresden since 1830, the Café Reale experienced its economic heyday. Torniamenti retired from running the café around 1865 and handed the business over to his head waiter Gottlob Lamm.
Around 1885 the Dresden city council decided to build the new art academy, which was to be built on the site of the Café Reale. In October 1886 the last working day took place in the café, on which the 80-year-old Torniamenti again personally served. After the demolition of the Café Reale, the art academy was built by Constantin Lipsius from 1887 .
traces
The grave of the tenant of Café Reale, Torniamenti († January 12, 1890), is still in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. The four characteristic pillars of the Café Reale were saved in 1887 on the initiative of Friedrich August Quosdorf and integrated into the “Goldener Apfel” inn (now “Bürgerschänke”) in the then independent Klotzsche .
Johann Hercules Samuel (or Giovanni Ercole) Torniamenti lived in Serkowitz in a villa at today's Eduard-Bilz-Straße 30 , where he also died. He was married to Amalie Louise geb. Mountains. After her death, he donated 12,000 marks, the interest of which was to be used to support "three innocent Kötzschenbrodaer brides". This inheritance from Kötzschenbroda is documented as the Torniamenti Foundation and lasted until 1929.
literature
- Andreas Them: The coffee temple of the Italian Torniamenti . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 24, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Written information from the Radebeul City Archives to user: Jbergner of July 8, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11.3 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 33.1" E