Gösser beer clinic
The Gösser Bierklinik , also called Zum Steindl , is a traditional inn in downtown Vienna .
history
An inscription in the entrance to the house reads: “This house was built at the time when Vindobona was a Roman camp, 70 AD. Roman legionnaires camped here for 200 years.” The reference to the Roman camp is described by Vienna History Wiki as “a bold assertion "classified.
The house was first mentioned in a document in 1406 with the name "under the Pheilsnickers (arrow carvers) against the clergymen of Mauerbach over". In 1465, Prior Martin and the convent of the Carthusian monastery in Mauerbach allowed the owner Veit Hindperger to build an archway between the house and the Seitzerhof in order to maintain the good neighborhood. This arcade was preserved until the 19th century. Another entry from 1566 names the shoemaker Hans Präntlin as the owner. The house name was already "Zum Güldenen Drachen" at that time. The inscription "Haus zum Güldenen Drachen 1566" still stands over the door today. The associated house sign, a gilded dragon from the 17th century, is located above the entrance to the restaurant, today behind glass, to protect against the weather. A painted, presumably late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary , placed in a wall niche between the central windows of the first floor, has also been preserved.
The core of the house is said to date from the 14th century. The house has existed in its current form since 1566. The owner Johann Georg Steindl (Staindl) can be documented for 1665, who is said to have received the house as a reward for his bravery during the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683. He is also said to have been councilor and hospital director and opened an inn in this house. Research by the Austrian Academy of Sciences showed that Steindl had died in 1683 and that his functions as councilor and hospital director cannot be proven. However, it is certain that he gave the house its purpose, which is still valid today, with the establishment of an inn. The house and the alley now also bear his name, the signature Zum Steindl (verifiable from 1701) is on the facade. Even the name Bierklinik could easily be traced back to Steindl's dual function. The following owner, Johann Stephan Grundl, imperial city and district court assessor, who is only mentioned on the inscription inside the house, has also not yet been documented.
It was not until 1776 that there were entries in the municipal land register for this house. In 1784 the property probably passed into the possession of the municipality of Vienna, but not the house. The conscription number changed several times. Before 1795 it was 251, until 1821 it was 462 and finally - until 1862 - 429. Until 1922 the restaurant was called Pilsner Bierklinik . The building has been owned by Gösser Brau AG since the end of 1923 and has leased it ever since.
The house was badly damaged in World War II . On September 10, 1944, a chain bomb destroyed the third and partly also the second floor. Another bomb hit the pavement in front of the house crooked, penetrated the basement and killed four Italian workers who had taken shelter there. The restaurant, then called Zum Gösser Stüberl , was also damaged. The landlord, Hanns Stiedl, and the Gösser Bräu took part in the rapid reconstruction. The house was one of the first downtown to be restored.
Hieronymus Kos has been the tenant since 1988 . In 2000 the restaurant was renovated - "in favor of the special atmosphere of the house and its earlier appearance".
The house is a listed building . The Gösser Beer Clinic is known as the “oldest preserved pub in Vienna”.
Owners, restaurateurs
Inscriptions in the entrance to the inn:
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Beers, dishes
According to its name, the Gösser Bierklinik offers a range of beers on tap and in bottles, not only from the Gösser beer brand , but also from other manufacturers.
In addition to a dish of the day, a regular menu is offered. This includes classic dishes from Viennese cuisine , in particular goulash , blunzengröstl and veal beuschel , which are also offered in smaller portions, as well as the obligatory soups and pastries.
In the literature
In his prose text Meine prices, Thomas Bernhard describes the Grillparzer award ceremony , during which he felt humiliated as a prizewinner, from whom no one took any notice - both by the representatives of the Academy of Sciences and by the socialist culture minister who is said to have proclaimed : "Yes, where is the poet?" Then he is said to have left the Academy of Sciences and gone to eat with friends "to the so-called Gösser beer clinic". Die Zeit laconically commented on the choice of the restaurant, "with whose name everything is said".
In Wittgenstein's nephew , however, it is no longer the Gösser beer clinic that he visits after the award ceremony, but the Sacher .
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Steindl, Zum. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 327 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Gösser Bierklinik , website of the inn
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Zum Steindl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on November 21, 2017
- ↑ a b c CityABC: The house "To the golden (green) dragon", "Zum Steindl" - architecture and history , accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ a b c d Türkengedächtnis , a project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences : Steindlgasse, memorial plaque , text by Marion Goldner, accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ Gösser Bierklinik: Dish of the day from November 20 to 24, 2017 , accessed on November 21, 2017
- ↑ Heide Marie Karin Geiss, Dieter Luippold: Baedeker Travel Guide Vienna , Mair Dumont 2016, p. 98
- ↑ Kulinarisches-Erbe.at: Wiener Wirtshaus. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
- ^ ORF : My Prices , February 1, 2009
- ↑ Alexander Schimmelbusch : Thomas Bernhard versus Peter Handke , Die Zeit (Hamburg), February 12, 2014
- ↑ Martin Huber: "almost everything wrong"? Poetry and Truth in Thomas Bernhard's »My Prices«, in: Text and Criticism 43 - Thomas Bernhard: Fourth edition: New version, ed. by Hermann Korte
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 10.4 ″ E