Café Sperl
The Café Sperl is a traditional Grade II listed Viennese coffee corner Gumpendorferstraße and Lehargasse in the 6th district of Vienna Mariahilf .
In 1880 Jacob Ronacher, brother of Anton Ronacher (the founder of the well-known Ronacher establishment ), opened a coffee house under the name of Café Ronacher in the corner building Gumpendorfer Straße / Lehargasse. The design of the restaurant in the style of a Ringstrasse café with parquet flooring, Thonet chairs , marble tables, crystal chandeliers and carambola tables was carried out by the architects Wilhelm Jelinek and Anton Groß . In the same year, however, Ronacher gave up the business and sold it to the Sperl family, who continued it under the name of Café Sperl . In 1884 Adolf Kratochwilla became the owner of the restaurant, but kept the name, which has now become established.
In the period before the First World War, the regular guests of the Sperl included a curious mixture of artists - writers, painters, architects, composers, musicians, actors - and the military from the nearby Austro-Hungarian War School , the latter including, for example, the later chief of the General Staff of the Austrian- Hungarian army Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and Archduke Josef Ferdinand .
From 1895 to 1942, the artists 'association Hagengesellschaft (from which the Hagenbund emerged in 1900 ) had its regulars' table here. Also in 1895 was the Siebenerclub in Sperl , to which Josef Hoffmann , Leo Kleinradl , Adolf Karpellus , Maximilian Kurzweil , Koloman Moser , Joseph Maria Olbrich and Friedrich Pilz belong, who later brought the Vienna Secession to life together with other artists . In addition, Joseph Lewinsky , Alexander Girardi , Edmund Eysler , Richard Heuberger , Karl Millöcker and Franz Lehár were regular guests of the Sperl at that time .
After the Second World War , the café resumed its operations. In 1968 Manfred Staub took over the restaurant from the Kratochwilla family and had it renovated in 1983 while preserving the listed ensemble. In the years that followed, the Sperl received various awards, for example it was named Austrian Coffee House of the Year in 1998 and was awarded the Golden Coffee Bean in 2004 . The writers Jörg Mauthe , Robert Menasse and Michael Köhlmeier were regular guests in the recent past .
literature
- Café Sperl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Hans Veigl : Viennese coffee house manager . Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-218-00587-6 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 59 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 39 ″ E