Doris Esselbach

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Doris Esselbach (born October 21, 1808 in Schleswig ; † November 19, 1869 there ) was a German restaurateur .

Life

family

Doris Esselbach was the daughter of the Schleswig innkeeper Jeppe Sörensen Seest from Seest near Kolding , who acquired an inn in Schleswig in 1805, and his wife Magrethe Elisabeth (née Cornelius) from Koldenbüttel ; she had six other siblings.

In 1831 she married the Altona wallpaper dealer Ferdinand Esselbach († January 23, 1840 in Schleswig); shortly after the wedding, her father handed over the management of the inn and hotel to his son-in-law; they had four children together; These included the physicist Ernst Esselbach .

Entrepreneurial activity

After the early death of her husband from jaundice , she took over the management of the Hotel Stadt Hamburg , which was known far beyond the borders; She also continued her deceased husband's wallpaper business. She impressed with her wealth of ideas, business acumen and assertiveness. In the hotel she welcomed royal highnesses, high military officials and politicians, both Prussian and Danish , while doing this she called all of her guests and was only addressed by them as Aunt Doris . Among other things, Theodor Fontane stayed in her house when he visited the scenes of the German-Danish War in May 1864 and chatted casually with general staff officers in the hotel ; a few months earlier, the Danish King Christian IX. stopped there.

The journalist Meïr Aron Goldschmidt mentions her in his memoirs as a nice, little woman, a little plump. She is an admirable host, a lively and interesting woman. Nowadays one speaks so often of emancipated women; here one meets a truly sensibly emancipated woman. She asserts her position in life through will and her personality .

War Minister Friedrich Emil August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg said of her that Madame Esselbach was the only man in town ; The population was told about them: Schleswig-Holstein did not have a father for a long time. But a country mother, the Esselbache. She is my husband .

She is also mentioned several times in the illustrated garden gazebo , for example in 1864: if he has ever been to Schleswig-Holstein, who does not know Doris Esselbach, the landlady of the "City of Hamburg" in Schleswig? ... All fighters for and against Schleswig-Holstein have stayed in their hospitable home for hours or days.

She took new initiatives and founded a post office next to the hotel in 1845 ; if you wanted to travel by stagecoach or wanted additional means of transport, you had to contact them. In addition there was the expansion of the first Schleswig city ​​traffic ; In 1844 she created a collective connection between Schleswig-Altstadt and Friedrichsberg . In 1848 she acquired the property north of the hotel, the Lobedanzsche property . In the same year the Heespenhof , today's district court Schleswig im Lollfuß , came into their possession, they rented it to the city administration of Schleswig.

It offered genuine Bavarian beer on tap and in 1850 built a brewery in the Bavarian house style on the site of the former Gottorf brickworks (today: Flensburger Straße 6–8); the beer from their Bavarian brewery increased the beer consumption in their hotel.

In the years from 1853 to 1855, Gottorf Castle was expanded into a barracks , after which the number of overnight stays by its military guests fell noticeably. Since it was far worse economically, in 1860 she sold the brewery to the Neumünster beer brewer Christian Blöcker. He kept the brewery going until his death in October 1912.

She was buried in the former Michaelisfriedhof at the side of her husband. The hotel and the Heespenhof became the property of their unmarried son Louis Esselbach; the hotel was flooded on the ground floor during the flood of the Baltic Sea in 1872 .

literature

  • Doris Esselbach . In: Bernd Philipsen: Schleswiger heads . Husum 2013. ISBN 978-3-89876-671-5 . P. 86 f.
  • Doris Esselbach . In: Børge L. Barløse: Doris Esselbach . Sønderjydske Årbøger 1960. (Danish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Berbig: Theodor Fontane Chronicle . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-021560-1 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2020]).
  2. ^ Moritz Busch: New diary sheets of the author of "Count Bismarck and his people" . Grunow, 1879 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2020]).
  3. ^ From Schleswig to Missunde - Wikisource. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ www.alte-schleihalle.de - The Schleswig storm surge of November 13th, 1872 - Information about Schleswig, history, construction projects, photos and films. In: www.alte-schleihalle.de. Retrieved on August 13, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Esselbach, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seest, Doris (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1869
Place of death Schleswig