Franz Sacher

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Franz Sacher
Ad for the wine shop; 1865

Franz Sacher , also: Franz Sacher sen. (* December 19, 1816 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † March 11, 1907 in Weikersdorf near Baden near Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian cook and confectioner ; he is considered to be the inventor of the internationally known Sachertorte .

Life

Franz Sacher was the son of a castle administrator in the service of State Chancellor Metternich (1773-1859).

16-year-old and second year apprentice in the court kitchen of the Metternich house, when the man of the house instructed his kitchen in 1832 to create a special dessert for himself and his guests . "That he doesn't shame me tonight!" He said. But the chef was ill, and so - at least according to legend - the apprentice Franz had to take on this task. The chocolate cake composed by him is said to have tasted very much to the guests - with which the story of the Sachertorte began.

Even in his second post with a Countess Eszterházy, the young chef has to follow the instructions of head chef Impère. When the teacher was appointed to the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg, Sacher was transferred to another branch of the count's extended family and came to the country estate in Zelis .

In 1840 Franz Sacher married Rosa Wieninger from Vienna (sometimes: Veininger). Her second child, Eduard, was born in 1843 in a servants' wing of Rosine Eszterházy's castle.

Family grave in Baden

As a trained chef, Franz Sacher set up his own business after a few years of professional experience, first in Pressburg and then for a short time on Danube ships between Vienna and Budapest . He was also the first head chef at István Széchenyi's casino in Pest . In 1848, Sacher returned to Vienna and opened a delicatessen shop with a wine shop at Weihburggasse 4, with the “Franz Sacher chocolate cake” proving to be a best seller. Johann Gundel (1844–1915), founder of the Gundel restaurant in Budapest, did his first training with Franz Sacher during this time. From December 1, 1865, Sacher also ran the Grand Hôtel de l'Europe in Leopoldstädter Asperngasse 2 (today: Aspernbrückengasse ), which he gave up in 1871.

Franz Sacher settled in Weikersdorf near Baden near Vienna in 1881, where he lived until his death on March 11, 1907 in the villa on Schloßgasse 10 (now: ON  23), which no longer exists . In his home, a two-minute walk from Weikersdorf Castle and thirteen from Weilburg Castle , Sacher cooked again and again for members of the resident and locally active high aristocracy.

About five years before his death and very old, the passionate hunter suffered a serious hunting accident (crash) in Styria , but was able to recover completely. Sacher only spent the last year of his life in infirmity , supported by the help of his long-time housekeeper, Miss Rosa .

Franz Sacher (will of December 24, 1902) was buried in the family grave at the Helenenfriedhof in Weikersdorf.

progeny

Franz Sacher and his wife Rosa born. Wieninger had three sons:

  • Franz († 1889; age: 48/49), took over his father's business in Weihburggasse in the mid-1860s, later was a restaurateur and hotelier in Bucharest , then head of the marine casino in Pola ; after losing his fortune, he returned home sick, where he died soon after near Baden near Vienna and was buried in the St. Helena cemetery; Brother Carl Sacher became the guardian of his underage children, Franz, Johann and Adrienne; the widow, Adrienne, reopened a restaurant in 1894 as a tenant at the Feste Hohen-Salzburg cable car
  • Eduard (1843–1892), who completed the Sachertorte at the kuk Hofzuckerbäcker Demel and in 1876 founded the Hotel Sacher in Vienna
  • Carl (1849–1929), who founded Sacher's Hotel & Curanstalt in the Helenental in 1881 . Many important personalities, including Empress Elisabeth, were guests in this hotel and restaurant, which is still frequented today .

Honors

  • Franz Joseph Order
  • On December 19, 2016, Google showed the animated Google Doodle 200th birthday of Franz Sacher in DA-CH with the second "o" as a coffee house table. There were four pieces of cake on the plates, which disappear with the exception of a few crumbs.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Sacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Sacherhaus in Zelis . In: Dietmar Grieser : The uncle from Pressburg. On the Austrian trail through Slovakia . Book club Donauland, Vienna 2010, OBV , sp
  2. ↑ Hotel de l'Europe. In:  Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , supplement to No. 334/1865 (18th year), December 3, 1865, p. 9 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ↑ ( Advertisement :) Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Vienna, Leopoldstadt. (...). In:  Neues Fremd -Blatt , Morgenblatt, No. 226/1871 (Volume VII), August 16, 1871, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfb.
  4. ^ Photograph from around 1870 by Oscar Kramer
  5. ↑ The building erected in 1857 in anticipation of the World Exhibition in 1873 came into the possession of the federal government after the hotel business was closed in 1922 and served as a tax office building for a long time; it was demolished in 1992 and replaced by a new building, see Hotel de l'Europe (2, Aspernbrückengasse 2, Praterstraße 18) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  6. ↑ Obituary. In:  Badener Zeitung , March 13, 1907, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  7. ↑ Daily report. (...) Franz Sacher †. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 70/1907 (XLI. Volume), March 12, 1907, p. 8 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  8. ↑ a b c Little Chronicle. (...) Franz Sacher sen .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 15286/1907, March 12, 1907, p. 8 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  9. ↑ Daily news. (...) The old Sacher †. The head of a Viennese hotel dynasty. In:  Neuigkeits -Welt-Blatt , No. 60/1907 (XXXIV. Volume), March 13, 1907, p. 4, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwb.
  10. ^ Convocations (...). (...) Franz Sacher. In:  Official Gazette of the “Wiener Zeitung” , No. 218/1907, September 21, 1907, p. 336, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  11. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Franz Sacher
  12. ↑ Baden Local Chronicle. (...) deaths. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , No. 13/1889 (IX. Year), January 29, 1889, p. 3, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb.
  13. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) death. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 22/1889, January 26, 1889, p. 7 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  14. ↑ amortization. (...) Police. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 142/1894, June 23, 1894, p. 861, column 3 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  15. ↑ Opening ad. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , No. 101/1894 (XXIV. Volume), May 3, 1894, p. 5. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / svb.
  16. ↑ Local messages. (...) New facilities in Rauhenstein. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , No. 47/1881 (Volume I), November 19, 1881, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb.
  17. ↑ 200th birthday of Franz Sacher Doodle Archive, google.com, December 19, 2016, accessed December 19, 2016.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1873 a villa was built in today's Sauerhofstrasse 10 (formerly: Rauhenstein, Eliasgasse 10) by order of Franz Sacher, restaurateur . The client is likely to have been Sacher's firstborn, professionally ambitious, but ultimately hapless son. - Bettina Nezval: Villas from the Imperial Era. Summer residences in Baden. 2nd, extended edition, Berger, Horn / Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-85028-476-9 , p. 176. The author queries after the name of the client: Inventor of the Sachertorte?
personal data
SURNAME Sacher, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian confectioner, is considered to be the inventor of the Sachertorte
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1907
Place of death Baden (Lower Austria)