Café Wunderer
The Café Wunderer was under monument protection standing Viennese coffee at the Kennedy Bridge in the 14th district of Vienna Penzing (address Hadikgasse 62).
history
The forerunner of today's restaurant was the Schönbrunn café, which was demolished in 1912. In 1913 Anton Wunderer had his new house built on the same site. He entrusted the design of the café to the architect Josef Hoffmann . A conservative Catholic resistance movement against the Nazi regime, the Greater Austrian Freedom Movement, was founded in this café in November 1938 .
Anton Wunderer died in 1954 and the Café Wunderer was taken over by the Gstrein & Musil family, the interior of the restaurant was largely preserved in its original form. In 1974 Messrs. Weinmann and Wurst began to work as waiters in the café and took over in 1986.
The BSK Union, Vienna's oldest billiard club ( Karambolage ), had its headquarters here from 1971 to 1995. The coffee house was declared a non-smoking business in the course of the new smoking law.
The last managing director, Gerhard Weinmann, retired in the summer of 2013 and the coffee house was closed. The fast food chain McDonald’s opened a branch on the premises at the end of December 2013. The Art Nouveau ambience is only rudimentary.
literature
- Peter Schubert: The Austrian scene. Topographic lexicon on contemporary history in three volumes . Volume 1: Vienna . Hollinek, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-85119-147-1 , p. 77.
Individual evidence
- ↑ BSK Union: Our roots. , accessed July 25, 2015
- ↑ Fast food instead of coffee house , in: Wiener Zeitung , July 18, 2013. Retrieved on December 4, 2013.
- ↑ Press release: McDonald's Restaurant opened on the Kennedy Bridge in Vienna on December 20, 2013, accessed on July 25, 2015
Web links
- Website of the café with historical photos ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 18.2 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 13.1 ″ E