Fidelisbäck

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The Fidelisbäck in Wangen

The Fidelisbäck is a bakery with an attached restaurant in Wangen im Allgäu . The history of the Fidelisbäck can be traced back to the year 1505, making the bakery one of the oldest of its guild that still exists today. The house on Paradiesstrasse is also one of the city's sights because of its colorful facade paintings .

history

The first mention is in the tax book of the city of Wangen from 1505. Hans Wangner is named as the owner. Since then, with the exception of the years 1616–1637, for which the records were lost in the Thirty Years War , it has been used as a bakery, largely in family ownership. The bakery burned down twice in major fires. The first fire was in 1539 when Hans Wagner, the grandson of the first-mentioned company owner, ran the bakery. The second fire occurred in 1793. At that time, Fidel Hasel ran the house. The bakery owes its current name to him. The bakery was sold twice in 1887 and 1888, the last to Franz Joseph Schneider. His widow Kunigunde married her employee Anton Heine in 1900. The bakery has been owned by the Heine family since then. The current owner, Ursula Mönch, is Anton Heine's great-granddaughter and took over the business in 1991. In addition to the headquarters in downtown Wangen, Fidelisbäck operates six other branches, two in Lindau , one in Wasserburg , one in Neuravensburg and two more in Wangen.

Todays use

Fidelisbäck restaurant

The Fidelisbäck is known far beyond the borders of Wangen and is also advertised by the city as a tourist destination. The most popular product in the restaurant is the Leberkäs, which is supplied by the butchery Joos in Wangen. Around 5,000 servings of these are sold every week. 800 to 1000 guests come to the inn every day, plus around 1500 customers in the bakery. Even if it is not handled as strictly today as it was a few years ago, table reservations are generally not possible. So it could come to the curious episode that in the 1970s the then Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Karl Schiess was supposed to visit the inn. Because no table reservations were made, the city administration ordered some members of the local fire brigade and donated them Leberkäs, Laugenhörnle and beer so that they could block a table for the minister and vacate it when he arrived. The same procedure, only this time with school children instead of firefighters, was later repeated for a visit by the then Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Günther Oettinger .

In 2005 the Fidelisbäck celebrated its 500th anniversary with a big festival called "Fidelaeum". Almost 20,000 visitors are said to have come.

swell

Rolf Dieterich: Fidelisbäck is happy about Leberkäse weather. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from April 7, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Fidelisbäck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chronicle of Fidelisbäck ( Memento from November 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Locations , accessed on July 2, 2015
  3. ^ City stories in Wangen. Allgäu GmbH Society for Location and Tourism, accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Sylvio J. Godon: influx exceeds all expectations (PDF file; 201 kB) In: Schwäbische Zeitung. dated May 30, 2005.

Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 59.6 ″  E