Café Weinberg
The Café Vineyard is a historic restaurant building in Dresden district Kaitz . It was built on a former vineyard property and, including its interior fittings and the enclosure, is a listed building as a cultural monument.
history
The building Kaitzer Weinberg 12 was built in 1913/14 on a former vineyard property and was designed as a restaurant from the start. It got its name after the location above the former vineyards of the place.
The southern slopes of the Kaitzbachtal were already used for viticulture in the Middle Ages . The last material testimony from this time is a vineyard house from 1686 that has been preserved on the neighboring property (no. 14). The historic half-timbered building with quarry stone basement and half-timbered structure is a listed building, as is the associated enclosure wall with arched portal. A weather vane once on the roof fell victim to a storm in 1962. After 1990, several modern houses were built on the property. In this context, the dilapidated vineyard house was rebuilt based on the historical model, but without the roof structures.
After viticulture around Kaitz came to a standstill at the end of the 19th century, the owner of the vineyards, the Kaitz estate owner Franz, had the property divided into individual parcels and sold them to the Dresden master confectioner Ernst Theodor Opitz. In 1913, Opitz had a two-story building built on what was then Weinbergstrasse (today Kaitzer Weinberg 12) and set up his “Café Weinberg” there. In addition to the restaurant and utility rooms, the restaurant also had a wooden veranda and a guest garden on the valley side. The interior is from the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau and was designed by Richard Riemerschmid . In addition to tables and benches, Riemerschmid also designed the wooden wall and heating paneling, the interior doors and the bar. The neighboring property with the vineyard house served as an orchard.
The veranda and the adjoining guest garden offer a wonderful view over the Kaitzbach valley to Saxon Switzerland , which is why the café quickly developed into a popular excursion destination for Dresdeners. During the air raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the retaining wall facing the street was badly damaged, but could soon be restored. Even during the GDR era, the café remained privately owned. The building was refurbished after 1990 to meet the requirements of listed buildings.
literature
- Kaitz 1206–2006 - Eine Chronik , Hrsg .: Geschichtsverein Kaitz e. V., Druckerei & Verlag Hille, pp. 37, 55f.
- M. Eckart: The vineyard house near Kleinpestitz , in: Bergblumen, 3rd year, no. 11, 1888, pp. 83, 88.
Web links
- Website of the café (with information about the history and picture gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Themed city map Dresden Cultural monuments in Dresden , accessed on May 22, 2014.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 58 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 56 ″ E