Efreuna
Efreuna was the name of various restaurants in Chemnitz . The branch on the Kaßberg , west and corner of Ulmenstrasse, which existed until 2012 , was considered to be the oldest still existing confectionery in town. The musical tradition and the role as a meeting place and place of remembrance have had an effect up to the present.
Foundation and naming
Emil Freund founded a pastry shop in Chemnitz around 1850, which eventually became so successful that Freund's name was not erased when the business passed into other hands. The acronym Efreuna emerged from the new company Emil Freund Successor . In addition to the parent company, a branch was built on the Kaßberg around 1910. In contrast to the originally more important Café Efreuna on the corner plot of Zwingerstraße 6 / Innere Johannisstraße and other branches, this branch with the address Ulmenstraße 61 survived the bombings in World War II and was used until it was closed in 2012. It comes from the time when Karl Jentsch took over the business.
Café Efreuna in Zwingerstrasse
Jentsch opened the Efreuna in Zwingerstrasse in 1929 , which was advertised as a large confectionery and concert café and offered space for around 400 guests. The building in the style of the New Building had a horizontally structured facade with large windows, only separated by narrow pillars, and an abstract crenellated frieze, which ran around the rounded corner of the building on the parapet strips of the upper floors. The narrow side of the house was accentuated laterally by the vertical ribbon of windows of a staircase, which was effectively illuminated at night and acted as a light tower. A projecting strip of light was attached directly above the shop windows on the ground floor, on which the name EFREUNA was written in dark capital letters at the corner of the building - above the main entrance . Inside the cafe, which stretched over several floors, there was a podium for the chapel. The visitors could choose between seats on the ground floor and in the gallery; A large, artistically significant wall mosaic was located above the podium. The furnishings were in the Art Deco style .
From an architectural-historical point of view, the Efreuna on Johannisstrasse was a highlight of modernism in the city center, which was characterized by buildings from the 19th century.
Concert operations
The Efreuna had a long tradition of quality coffee house music and performances by important musicians at evening and dance events. Among others, Adolf Kühnholz and in 1934 the Brazilian jazz pioneer Eduardo Andreozzi played with their orchestras in the company.
Lore
The Café Efreuna in Zwingerstraße was in operation until 1945; Only a fully functional Baumkuchen machine has been preserved . The café on the Kaßberg and a demonstration of the Baumkuchen machine were part of city tours through Chemnitz.
The Efreuna is mentioned as a meeting place in several books, including fiction. It was the subject of a feature on Radio t in 2004 as Part 6 of the Local Heroes series .
In the post-war period, the café on the market took up part of the tradition.
Closure of the confectionery and a new start as an art trade
In 2012 the pastry shop on the Kaßberg closed. Later a new operator was found who runs his own pastry shop at the same location. Since 2016, the Efreuna company, now in its third generation, has been daring a fresh start as an art and antiques trade.
literature
- Jens Kassner: Chemnitz in the "Golden Twenties". Verlag Heimatland Sachsen GmbH, 2000, ISBN 3-910186-28-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Frank Selig: The master tells the sweetest city story. In: Sächsische Zeitung of November 20, 2010 ( online , accessed December 20, 2013)
- ↑ Illustration of a cake box with the inscription "E. Friend Nachf. "
- ↑ Uwe Kaufmann on flickr.com
- ^ Tilo Richter: Erich Mendelsohn's Schocken department store. Jewish cultural history in Chemnitz. Passage Verlag, Chemnitz 1998, ISBN 978-3-9805299-5-2 , p. 13 ( online at Google books )
- ^ Addi Jacobi: Adolf Kühnholz. In: Stadtstreicher from May 2004. ( online ( memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ↑ Adolf Kühnholz ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Chemnitz heads
- ↑ Adriano Mazzoletti: Il jazz in Italia dalle origini all orchestra grandiflora. Edt 2004, ISBN 978-88-7063-704-5 , p 139. ( online beu Google Books )
- ↑ Program of the Volkshochschule Chemnitz ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.3 MB)
- ↑ E.g. in Gipshut by Kerstin Hensel , Kiepenheuer 1999, ISBN 978-3-378-00618-8 , p. 95, in Gisela Liebe (ed.), Karl-Heinz Weg, We probably come to a very beautiful area or Die Liebe to the cyclamen. Letters from a German corporal from the Eastern Front of World War II. With comments on the war events , Halle (Saale) 2000, ISBN 978-3-933230-05-8 , p. 35, in Werner Bräunig , A crane in the sky. Unknown and known , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig 1981, ISBN 978-3-354-00501-3 , p. 188 and others
- ^ Radio t Chemnitz
- ↑ Lindner, Udo: Chemnitz, Karl-Marx-Stadt and back. Chemnitzer Verlag, 2001 - 176 pages, p. 40
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 57.9 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 22.5 ″ E