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Eselskrug restaurant (2014)

The Eselskrug in the street An der Malzmühle 1b is a half-timbered house in the town of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is a restaurant that is advertised as being the oldest restaurant in town and a smuggler's pub . What is ignored, however, is that with the Hotel “Weißer Hirsch” and the Hotel “Zur Tanne” there are still two much older restaurants in the city of Wernigerode that have been operated as such throughout.

Architecture and history

The building is not far from the main street crossing at the Westerntor and is already on the territory of the Wernigerode district of Hasserode, which was independent until 1907 . The Harzquerbahn passes in front of the building and operated here until the 1930s.

After several unsuccessful attempts, Johann Friedrich Bollmann reached the Westphalian authorities in 1811 that he was granted the license to run a bar and inn in the house he had already built in front of the Western Gate on the territory of Hasserode-Friedrichsthal. He called it "To the three lilies", which he ran until his death at the age of 75 on May 22, 1830 with great success as a restaurant outside the gates of the city of Wernigerode. Since he had no son but only four daughters, whose husbands were not interested in gastronomy, his widow initially continued the inn. When Lucie Elisabeth Bollmann turned 77, given her old age, she was no longer able to run the restaurant to the full satisfaction of her guests. In Ernst Krebs from Osterwieck she found a tenant who took over the management from September 29, 1833. But the horror was great when the government and police adviser Wilhelm Stiehler forbade the continued operation of the "Drei Lilien". It took protracted disputes before the restaurant was allowed to reopen in 1938 under the new name Eselskrug , which is still in use today .

A letter from the owner's widow from 1834 is available as a contemporary source. It says u. a .:

“My late husband, the innkeeper Bollmann, built an inn, mostly with his own hands, in front of the Westernthore, in which he ran the inn until his death in 1830 and thus cared for his family properly. The entire property of the same consisted of the abovementioned inn and when he died, he gave me the usufruct of this inn by testamentary disposition. I am 77 years old and not very capable of running an inn; So there was only one way out for me to get my livelihood, to lease the inn to a real man, and I think I have found one in Ernst Krebs from Osterwieck. I therefore concluded with the same on July 25th. J. from the […] lease contract, according to which the same Michaelis took the lease in 1833. [...] To my great horror, the [...] order of the Government and Police Councilor Stiehler has now banned my tenant Krebs from running the bar and inn. "

The sculptor Otto Welte made the wooden figure of the donkey driver on the corner of the building.

In 1949 the restaurant was reopened after it had been closed during the Second World War. In 1955 the HO took over the business. After the petrol station next to the inn was demolished in 1967, a terrace could be built at this point. In 1974 structural defects led to the house being closed, which lasted until 1984. In the last four years up to the reopening, the house had been renovated and has been privately operated since 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Eselskrug restaurant
  2. ↑ Andreas Fischer: "New Facades - Old Stories" (Part 40) / At the Malzmühle 1b. Otto Welte's donkey driver adorns a traditional house. In: Harzer Volksstimme . January 5, 2011, accessed December 22, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 54.8 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 48.4"  E