Schober confectionery
The Schober Conditorei is a listed building in Zurich . The 13th century, now six-storey residential and commercial building is located at Napfgasse 4 in the old town and was once part of a building complex comprising several buildings. It formed the rear building of the Manesseturm, which was demolished in 1836, at Münstergasse 22.
history
The property is mentioned for the first time in the “Anniversaria praepositurae Thuricensis”, the calendar of the Grossmünster from 1314, where it is recorded as “Des hinder hûs des Manessen”. The building complex was owned by Ulrich Manesse, knight and representative of the Manesse family of ministers and councilors . The complex later passed to his son and, from 1360 to 1383, to Rüdiger Manesse, who was the mayor of Zurich. After his death, his son Ital Manesse recognized an arbitration award in favor of the great minster, whereby the Secret Annex was mortgaged . The building came into the possession of the later mayor Johannes Schwend through marriage around 1400. From 1529 they were owned by the later mayor Bernhard von Cham and then presumably by the Blaarer family and the Grebel family.
The house with the ground floor, two upper floors and an attic is also shown in the Murerplan from 1576. Before the building was a walled courtyard or high garden, a narrow building on the courtyard side to Münstergasse, which was canceled in 1596, and the adjoining tower and a great hall with bay window . There is still a gap in the Murer plan for the house at Napfgasse 6. This was probably built in 1617 in the course of building construction for buildings on Münstergasse. Further construction work was carried out around 1670. The geometric stucco was created in the late Renaissance and early Baroque styles in the hall on the first floor. From 1689 the house is mentioned as part of the “Gross Erker” building complex.
In the second half of the 18th century, the house was extensively rebuilt under the owner Johannes Lavater. The collection of paintings and the baroque design of the building, some of which still exist today, date from this period. Inside the tag included in the stairwell, the paint, the railing with balusters and the balconies to the yard, in the room of the second floor, the paneling with blue in blue painted landscapes, the Zurich tower furnace and in the hall of the third floor, the Rococo -Stuckdecke and Oven. Externally, the hipped roof was created and the gap to the house at Obere Fences 17 was built. In the Zurich city map drawn up by Johannes Müller from 1788 to 1793 , all the gaps to the adjacent houses are closed.
Café Conditorei Schober
In 1829 the “Gross Erker” building complex was taken over by a commercial directorate and the courtyard walling was demolished. At the end of December 1834, a public Gant took place, which resulted in the building complex being divided among five different owners. The house at Napfgasse 4 was auctioned off to Jakob Würgler. With the extensive renovation that followed, the insurance value at that time rose from 5,000 to 19,000 guilders . The construction work comprised twelve rooms and the addition of two more storeys to the rear building and the roof. After that, the house changed hands several times within a few years until it was passed on to the Pfullendorf baker Johann Georg Eberle in 1842 . He opened a "sweet shop" there.
In 1874 his son Julius Carl Heinrich Eberle, who had become the owner in 1867, sold the house to the pastry chef, who was also from Pfullendorf and Theodor Schober senior, who was closely associated with the Eberle family. Around 1890 the façade, which still exists today, and the interior fittings of the shop and pastry shop were built in the neo-baroque style. In 1892, Schober rented the shop space to the Schwarzenbach family, who came from St. Gallen and sold colonial goods , who had already had a shop in Zurich on the rear Augustinergasse since 1882. Theodor Schober junior took over the shop in 1909 and shaped it until his death in 1983. The Schwarzenbach grocery store rented in it moved into its new location in the building opposite at Münstergasse 19 in 1912, where it is still operated today with an attached café and a roastery. For his part, Theodor Schober senior, who was also a tinkerer in addition to a pastry chef, devoted himself mainly to the development of technical devices and ovens after his retirement from active day-to-day business.
In the first years of the 20th century, various construction works were carried out on the house of the Schober confectionery. These particularly affected the roof, where a roof terrace was built on the 4th floor. In 1918 the bakery was moved to the basement and the first electric oven in Switzerland developed by Theodor Schober senior was put into operation. In 1920 a café was added to the shop . The pastry shop and café were run as a family business by Theodor Schober junior.
After retiring from professional life, the Schober community of heirs leased the pastry shop to Confiserie Teuscher. This carried out various modifications and converted the café into a Viennese café. After the renovation work was completed, the building was placed under monument protection in 1976. The bar, which continued to be operated under the name “Schober”, developed under the influence of the co-owner of Confiserie Teuscher, Felix Daetwyler, with its lavish decorations into a café that is known far beyond Zurich.
Todays use
After Felix Daetwyler had already announced that the café would be relocated at the end of 2005, the termination of the lease agreement between Confiserie Teuscher and the Schober community of heirs was announced in 2008. The restaurant was temporarily closed in March 2008 and underwent a major renovation. Felix Daetwyler, for his part, moved to the Bellevue in Zurich in September 2008 and set up the "Felix" café in the renovated former "Grandhotel Bellevue".
After a one-year renovation phase, during which special attention was paid to emphasizing the historical ambience, the restaurant at Napfgasse 4 reopened in March 2009 under the name “Conditorei Schober”. The tenants are the Zurich restaurateur Michel Péclard, who runs several restaurants in Zurich , and his business partner Martin Egger.
The building itself is owned by the Schober community of heirs and continues to be used as a residential building. On the five upper floors, it has a total of seven 1½ to 4½ room apartments, between 60 and 122 square meters in size, as well as a separate 50 square meter hall.
Web links
- Website of the Schober community of heirs
- Website of the leaseholder of the Schober confectionery
- Website The Brander - Brands and their makers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Café Schober celebrates the end of an era. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 25, 2008.
- ↑ “Schober” stays as sweet as sugar and becomes quite Francophile , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 24, 2009
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '17.5 " N , 8 ° 32' 39.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred eighty-three thousand five hundred thirteen / 247331