Café Vienna (Wernigerode)

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Café Vienna in 2013
Detail of the upper and attic floors (2013)
Café Vienna in 1990

The residential and commercial building Café Wien in Wernigerode , Breite Straße  4, is under monument protection standing monument . The half-timbered building erected in 1583 is one of the oldest buildings in the city. Since 1897 it has housed a pastry shop and café . Since the 1950s it has operated under the name of the Austrian capital : Café Wien .

history

1583 to 1926

Since the externally two-storey half-timbered house was built at the end of the 16th century, it has survived, among other things, the great city fire of 1751, after which 190 houses were rebuilt and, as a result, various bottlenecks were removed, as well as the decisive historical upheavals of the 20th century.

Until the end of the 19th century, the property was used by various owner families, including the Saatze brewers, at the end of the 18th century or the Brauckhoff family of plumbers, during the second and third third of the 19th century, as the home of a wide variety of small-scale businesses. In 1897 the baker and confectioner Wilhelm Hauer took possession of it, followed by his son Hermann. From this tradition it was also called Hauersches Haus and the furnished restaurant Café Hauer. And that well beyond the period in which they carried out the same.

1926 to 1951

After almost three decades, the café changed hands. From April 1, 1926, the master confectioner Hans Siegemund ran the café, also beyond the time of National Socialism and the Second World War , the consequences of which in the form of air raids by the Allies led to losses in the historic building stock in Wernigerode and not far from Café Wien. In January 1938 Ernst Barlach celebrated his 68th birthday at Siegemund. Just like when Hermann Löns stopped here, two years after his visit in 1907, followed by a publication entitled Die Bunte Stadt am Harz , which the city now uses as an advertising slogan.

With the end of the Third Reich , Wernigerode fell to the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) after brief American and then British occupation , until the German Democratic Republic (GDR) emerged on October 7, 1949 . Only two years later, in 1951, the time of independent management by Siegemund came to an abrupt end.

1951 until today

With the transfer of the "Café Hauer", because the Wernigerode pub operated under this name also during the 1940s, under the umbrella of the trade organization  (HO) founded in 1948, its nationalization went hand in hand. Siegemund's daughter Marga, born in 1933, started on August 22, 1952 as an employee for 90  Pfennig ( GDR Mark ) hourly wages at HO, in what was previously her father's company. The coffee house tradition, on the other hand, was to live on under the new name “Café Wien”, initially with the shop sign “HO Kaffee Wien HO”.

It was only with the turnaround and the imminent reunification that a change could be made here. Since July 1, 1990, the “Café Wien” has been owned by Marga Siegemund again.

architecture

The two-story half - timbered house was originally three -story , with a low mezzanine being drawn into the ground floor. The three-sided gable storey was added around 1610 and has been spared structural changes since then. The Renaissance facade is richly decorated with palmettes and ship throats , or the coats of arms on the lower approach of the cleats . The upper floor protrudes by about the thickness of the beam head compared to the first floor, as does the bay floor by a few centimeters compared to the upper floor. In this way, the client moved further into the public airspace with each additional floor, thus increasing the size of the interior spaces.

The building underwent radical renovations towards the end of the 19th century, when the ground floor and mezzanine were combined and the storage door in the dwelling was removed. The shop furnishings in the neo-renaissance style also date from this period . With the renovations based on a design by the city's building officer Wilhelm Deistel (1869–1954), Wilhelm Hauer intended, among other things, to maintain an upper guest room, which has been preserved unchanged in the form of a gallery .

On the occasion of a facade renovation in 1906, the year 1583, which had previously been engraved above the lintel , was newly notched on the threshold of the upper floor. During the 1930s it was planned to cover the ground floor with artificial marble , which the state curator was able to prevent.

The residential and commercial building at Breite Straße 4 is listed under No. 094 03280 in the list of monuments of the city of Wernigerode.

Web links

Commons : Café Wien (Wernigerode)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gustav Sommer, Eduard Jacobs: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the county of Wernigerode. (= Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony and adjacent areas, VII.) Ed. Historical Commission of the Province of Saxony, Verlag und Druck Otto Hendel, Halle (Saale) 1883, p. 94. (Reprint Naumburger Verlagsanstalt, Aschersleben 2001, ISBN 3-86156-059-3 )
  2. ↑ a b Cafe Wien, Breite Strasse 4 - House history Wernigerode ( Memento from March 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ After Schmidt / Schmidt Siegemund took over in 1938, but the more recent evidence under house history contradicts this.
  4. ↑ Wernigerode. The companion through the colorful city on the Harz. A tour of the sights., Schmidt-Buch Verlag 1990 (14th updated edition 2011, 121th – 130th thousand), without ISBN, p. 5 f., Here p. 6.
  5. ↑ a b c Andreas Fischer: “Café Wien”: the oldest house on the former Bredestrate, on Volksstimme.de on April 7, 2010, accessed on December 22, 2015.
  6. ^ A b c Marion Schmidt, Thorsten Schmidt: Wernigerode. The city guide. A guide through the colorful city on the Harz, Schmidt-Buch Verlag, Wernigerode 1991 (13th edition 2013), ISBN 978-3-928977-08-1 , p. 21 f. (2013 edition)
  7. ^ A b c Hermann Dieter Oemler: Fachwerk. In Wernigerode, Oemler Verlag, Wernigerode 1999, ISBN 3-9805751-1-X , p. 24.
  8. ↑ Historical Register of Architects, on kmkbuecholdt, accessed December 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Wernigerode, number 094 03280

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 6.1 ″  E