Café Traxlmayr

Café Traxlmayr (2008)

The Café Traxlmayr in Linz is a traditional coffee house in the old Viennese coffee house style . It was founded in 1847 and is still family-owned today.

history

The coffee house was founded in 1838 by Josef Hartl on today's promenade and was considered a meeting place for dignitaries and Fuggers of the city of Linz. Through the marriage of his daughter Anna to Josef Traxlmayr, the coffee house passed to the Traxlmayr family. After Josef Traxlmayr's death in 1904, his son Wilhelm had the café completely redesigned and expanded in 1905 according to plans by Mauriz Balzarek , a student of Otto Wagner . The straight lines and numerous geometric ornaments indicate the burgeoning New Objectivity . In 1918 Wilhelm’s sister, Klara Traxlmayr, took over the management. During the Second World War , the poor supply situation and a devastating bomb hit brought operations to a standstill for a while, but reconstruction took place soon after the end of the war.

The coffee house is mentioned as a setting in various literary works. Readings, jazz concerts and discussions with politicians and cultural workers such as Stefan Ruzowitzky , Alexander Van der Bellen and Christian Kern are also held regularly .

After the Kriftner family had run the café for forty years, the great-grandson of the namesake, the physicist Ulrich Traxlmayr, took over the management of the family business together with his wife Dagmar Traxlmayr.

literature

Renate Perfahl: Café Traxlmayr - history and stories about the traditional Linz coffee house. Book publisher Franz Stein Maßl, Grünbach 1997, ISBN 3-900943-53-2 .

Web links

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

Jonathan Bousfield, Rob Humphreys, Kev Reynolds: The Rough Guide to Austria. P. 232 (as Google Book) .
Chat, coffee and a bit of being seen: ingredients for a traditional café. In: OÖN. May 8, 2007, accessed October 19, 2008 .
Traxlmayr opens. In: OÖN. January 23, 2009, accessed January 3, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Andrea Leonhartsberger: Leisure rooms and leisure activities of the Linz bourgeoisie in the Franzisko-Josephinischen epoch . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1994 . Linz 1995, p. 102 f . ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
↑ Ernst Koref: The tides of my life. Jugend & Volk, 1980, p. 443 (as Google Book) .
^ Ilse Aichinger: Incredible journeys. Published by Simone Fässler, Franz Hammerbacher, Fischer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-100005-27-4 ( as Google Book ).
^ Austria from January 8, 2009.

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[Leonhartsberger-1] Andrea Leonhartsberger: Leisure rooms and leisure activities of the Linz bourgeoisie in the Franzisko-Josephinischen epoch . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1994 . Linz 1995, p. 102 f . ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[2] Ernst Koref: The tides of my life. Jugend & Volk, 1980, p. 443 (as Google Book) .

[3] Ilse Aichinger: Incredible journeys. Published by Simone Fässler, Franz Hammerbacher, Fischer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-100005-27-4 ( as Google Book ).

[4] Austria from January 8, 2009.