Café Westend

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Café Westend

The Café Westend is a classic Viennese coffee house in the 7th Viennese district Neubau on the corner of Neubaugürtel and Mariahilfer Straße 128.

history

The new building belt with Café Westend around 1900
inside view

The coffee is Zachariashof, a 1899 built by architect Robert Prihuda large Eckzinshaus housed. According to newspaper reports at the time, the exact opening date was December 16, 1899. (According to another source, however, Café Westend was opened in 1895 (Cafejournal, 2004) or 1896 ( Kurier 2013).) On April 30, 1919 ( one?) Jos. F. Postl and a Rudolf Steigberger "the polite announcement to a PT audience that we are taking over the well-known Café Westend from May 1st, 1919." It remained in the possession of the Postl family for 80 years until it was taken over by Edmund and Melitta Kroyer in 1999 who continued it in the legal form of Kroyer GmbH until it was taken over by Hans and Claudia Kroyer.

The interior design with its high, stucco-decorated ceilings has largely been preserved, although the chandeliers date from the 1950s. Due to its proximity to the Westbahnhof , the coffee house has always attracted travelers and commuters in particular. According to the information provided by the new operator, the café was in a "deep sleep" until it was taken over in 1999 and the guests stayed away. After a complete replacement of the staff (with the exception of a veteran waiter) and careful conservation and restoration of the old stock, "young people would be back again and not just the typical students. ”On September 1, 2018, the coffee house was taken over and gently renovated.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architecture and urban design in the western belt area - belt target area 2002 to 2007: new building belt. In: wien.gv.at - urban development. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  2. ↑ here: Neues Wiener Journal from December 16, 1899, or here: Wiener Bilder from December 17, 1899
  3. ↑ a b c Café Reportage: Preserving, restoring and conserving. ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Cafejournal, December 22, 2004. Retrieved February 28, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cafejournal.at
  4. ↑ a b A coffee house like 100 years ago. In: Courier. April 16, 2013, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Takeover of the coffeehouse. In:  Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , April 30, 1919, p. 6, advertisement, 3rd column (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / waz
  6. ↑ See the café's website. (Note: The description retrieved on February 28, 2012 and shown on the website under History is an almost identical copy of this article in the version of January 9, 2012. )

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 24.3 ″  E