Dirt tavern

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The increasingly dilapidated Dreckschänke, August 2009 ...
... and in June 2006 still with the shield secured by the Erzgebirgsverein
Dreckschänke (as it was in 1912, still without extension)

The Dreckschänke was an inn in Breitenbach ( Potůčky ), which is known far beyond the borders of the Ore Mountains , in the Bohemian Ore Mountains (now in the Czech Republic ), directly on Anton-Günther-Weg and 500 meters south of Johanngeorgenstadt .

history

The history of the inn at the lower end of the Hammerbergweg in the valley of the Breitenbach ( Blatenský potok ) in the Breitenbach district of Ziegenschacht (today: Stráň ) can be traced back to the year 1829. The house then belonged to a Wenzel Dörfel. In 1834 he had leased to the landlord Josef Korb. In 1835 Johann Adalbert Hahn bought it. The inn in Breitenbach No. 7 (formerly number 49) on the Poststrasse from Johanngeorgenstadt to Karlsbad initially only bore the name of the owner from the Hahn family and was called Hahn's-Gasthaus . It is speculated that the nickname will soon be popular due to the dirt on the street just outside the front door of the innDreckschänke naturalized, which was officially taken over from 1875.

The Hahn family never got rid of the popular name "Dreckschänke". In 1885, Hahn's widow Theresia first adopted the name in an effective way by having a small oval porcelain sign “Vulgo Dreckschenke” affixed over the door. After her death, daughter Sophie took over the restaurant and in 1901 married the head waiter Richard Weickert, who lived in Johanngeorgenstadt. He is said to have “instigated” Anton Günther to write the song about the restaurant, which became so popular from 1904 that the inn, song and postcard became known far beyond the borders of the Ore Mountains. Richard Weickert died in December 1921, after which Sophie Weickert ran the inn herself until 1945.

In 1935 the restaurant celebrated its centenary with a big party in which Anton Günther also took part. With his 1904 song Da Draakschänk , which u. a. was published on a song postcard , he made a significant contribution to increasing the awareness of the inn. In the chorus of the song it says:

“ This is Draakschänk
's is widely known on brat, far rem in Sachsn as in Böhmerland on goes mr there, there is no
one, was in the Draakschänk rests, that's aa good. "

After the German population was expelled from Breitenbach in 1946, the Dreckschänke stood empty, was plundered and first used by Czech border troops, later temporarily as a children's holiday camp and for a longer period as a day-care center. At that time, a red star was emblazoned over the entrance, where the dirty bar sign previously hung. After the opening of the pedestrian border crossing between Johanngeorgenstadt and Breitenbach in 1991, the Dreckschänke was reopened as a sports hotel. The various operators advertised that the Dreckschänke was the oldest hotel in the Ore Mountains region . After initially a relatively large number of visitors, the guests stayed away more and more, so that the hotel was closed again in 2001. The building, which is now in great need of restoration, then served as a place to stay for Vietnamese traders from the Breitenbach black market and is now empty. On the opposite mountain slope, on which a few houses from the scattered Pechöfen settlement were located until after the Second World War , a downhill slope for skiers was created in 2006.

First version of Anton Günther's song postcard in 1904
Second version of Anton Günther's song postcard with an image from another person after the renovation of the restaurant, around 1935

In 2009 members of the Erzgebirgszweigverein Johanngeorgenstadt removed the wooden relief with the inscription Sport-Hotel Dreckschänke above the door in order to secure it and store it for future use.

Since 2019, the Dreckschänke has been renovated by the new owner and entrepreneur Marek Plachý from Potucky.

Owners / hosts

  • from 1829: owner Wenzel Dörfler
  • 1834: Josef Korb
  • 1835–1884: Johann Adalbert Hahn († June 1884, carpenter and general merchant)
  • 1884–1887: his son Franz Xaver Hahn († July 1887), master carpenter and innkeeper
  • 1887–1900: his widow Theresia Hahn b. Leiner († January 20, 1900)
  • 1900–1901: their daughter Sophie Hahn, who married Richard Weickert from Johanngeorgenstadt in 1901
  • 1901–1921: Richard Weickert († December 9, 1921)
  • 1921–1945: Sophie Weickert († July 1960)
  • 1990-2017: Potucky Parish
  • 2017 - today: Marek Plachý

literature

  • Sophie Weickert and children (ed.): The Hundred Years Dreckschänke - Jubilee Issue, 1935; without publisher or printer information, Breitenbach, April 28, 1935, 20 pages, 14.4 × 22.5 cm
  • Rudolf Behr (Author): Neudeker Heimatbrief; The History of the Dreckschänke, No. 176, May 1, 1970
  • Rudolf Behr (Author): Neudeker Heimatbrief; Centenary of the Dreckschänke, No. 48, 1954
  • Alexis Kolb (Ed.): “The money man in the dirty tavern” - Erzgebirge spikes in one act, 1925, action 1870; Thümmlers Theater-Bücherei, Chemnitz, Vol. 13/14, 40 pages, 11.5 × 15 cm

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Behr: The history of the Dreckschänke. In: Neudeker Heimatbrief. No. 176, May 1, 1970 and centenary of the Dreckschänke, No. 48, 1954.
  2. ↑ https://www.drschubertfrank.de/newpage2
  3. ↑ Rudolf Behr: The history of the Dreckschänke, No. 176, May 1, 1970 and centenary of the Dreckschänke, No. 48, 1954, Neudeker Heimatbrief
  4. ↑ Sophie Weickert: The Hundred Years Old Dreckschänke, 1935
  5. ↑ https://www.drschubertfrank.de/newpage2
  6. ↑ https://www.drschubertfrank.de/newpage2

Web links

Commons : Dreckschänke  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: De Draakschänk by Anton Günther  - sources and full texts

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 7.8 "  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 58.1"  E