Dorfschenke (Friemersheim)
The village inn in the Duisburg district of Friemersheim was the first German internet café .
The building erected around 1810, which has been a listed building since April 17, 1985 , housed an inn which Hans-Joachim Wiese (1940–2007) had been operating since 1978 . After Wiese already the 32 places at the time the smallest in the Village Inn 1980 cinema had set up in Germany, he expressed his strong interest in computers and the Internet to make his restaurant on 12 October 1994 to Germany's first Internet cafe.
The original equipment consisted of three Internet terminals , which were named paprika, tomato and lemon . Internet surfers ordered online time at the counter and received an egg timer , the shape of which corresponded to the name of the respective computer terminal.
The oldest internet cafe in Germany was until October 2004, when the village inn over unpaid rent claims against the operator evicted and the restaurant was closed; The year before, the village inn was one of the main locations for Helge Schneider's film Jazzclub - The early bird catches the worm .
The former village inn now has new users and has been a photo studio since December 1, 2006 . It is located on the edge of the Rheinaue Friemersheim nature reserve opposite the Werthschenhof .
Web links
- archimedia institute bochum: And in the evening in the cyber bar
- Data on the history of the internet café in the village inn
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of this monument (number: 86) in the monument list of the city of Duisburg ( access )
- ^ Message on the death of Hans-Joachim Wiese
- ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (local edition Duisburg): Dorfschenke was evicted . October 15, 2004.
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 55.2 " N , 6 ° 42 ′ 19.1" E