Seehaus restaurant

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View over the Kleinhesseloher See to the lake house built in 1985

The Seehaus restaurant is located on Kleinhesseloher See in the English Garden in Munich . The restaurant that is now part of the Schwabing-Freimann district was established at this point at the beginning of the 19th century. An attached beer garden with its 2500 seats is one of the best known and most popular in the Bavarian capital; it is the only Munich beer garden that also opens in winter when the weather is right.

history

Until 1790 there was a facility used by the military at the site of today's Kleinhesseloher See , with a pond that was fed by the Schwabing brook . The parking attendant Josef Tax, known as the “Auwächter”, lived in a small house nearby. Reinhard Freiherr von Werneck (1757–1842) had this pond expanded into a lake around 1800.

Monument to Reinhard Freiherr von Werneck in the English Garden

The lakeshore was now on a collection of wooden buildings surrounding a dairy, which was called Kleinhesselohe and where Tax was already serving a beer with a small inn. From 1807 to 1812, under Friedrich Ludwig Sckell , the lake was expanded to its present size; gondolas were rented out in summer and the lake was used for ice skating in winter. In 1811, the hospitality business that had developed up to then (with a beer license) was officially leased to Tax. His successors as tenants, the married couple Kaspar, had a wooden lake house built at their own expense in 1837. In the following years, more restaurants were opened in nearby Schwabing; In 1840, the tenant of the business on the Kleinhesseloher See complained about the increasing competition from the Schwabing hosts.

In 1882/1883 a boathouse designed by Gabriel von Seidl - in two-storey wooden architecture with a hipped roof - with dining rooms was built and was first called the "Seehaus". The restaurant operated here was called "See-Restaurant Kleinhesselohe". In a separate pavilion healing treatments were offered, the so-called “Kleinhesseloher Kur”. Munich celebrities, such as the popular singer Weiß Ferdl or the writer Kurt Graf , were regulars here in the interwar period.

New building in 1935

In 1935, the now dilapidated restaurant building was torn down. A new wooden building designed by Rudolf Esterer with a lake terrace, which “happily adapted to the idyllic lake landscape”, was built by 1936. The developer was the Landbauamt München. The building was again referred to as the "Seehaus" and again became a popular destination for Munich residents; and Willi Graf , his sister Anneliese Graf and the Scholls wrong here.

After the Second World War , the US Army stationed in Munich occupied the Seehaus until 1955. Here, as at the Chinese Tower restaurant , a club for military personnel ( EM - Enlisted mens club ) was operated. On September 4, 1947, the US General and Chief of the War Veterans Ministry , Omar N. Bradley , visited the Seehaus after inspecting units stationed in Munich and the then Henry Barracks . After the return and repair of war damage, the Seehaus was reopened to the public in 1955. In 1970 the restaurant building was again demolished due to its dilapidation; Initially, the restoration business was maintained in temporary wooden huts.

In a tender for a new building, Alexander von Branca emerged as the winner; however, this design did not materialize.

today

It was not until fifteen years later that the temporary huts were replaced by the fourth new building of the lake house ; In 1985 the current building was built by the architects Ernst Hürlimann and Ludwig Wiedemann (1939–2013). Roland Kuffler GmbH also took over the business in the 1980s and is still responsible for the restaurant and beer garden to this day. In 2011 there was an extensive renovation and redesign of the interior of the restaurant. The restaurant offers high-quality meals, the beer garden offers traditional beer garden dishes as well as some salads. The beer served is delivered by the Paulaner brewery .

Trivia

Waldemar Hartmann moderated his "Waldis WM Club", which was visited by many celebrities , in the pavilion of the lake house on the occasion of the 2010 soccer world championship . Since November 2008, programs after the national team's international matches have also been broadcast live from here . In May 2005, Gerhard Schröder was a guest at the Seehaus . During the election campaign, he received writers ( Tilman Spengler ), artists ( Veronika von Quast , Lisa Fitz ) and various party friends ( Christian Ude , Hans-Jochen Vogel , Georg Kronawitter or Franz Maget ) in the restaurant's beer garden .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Excursion Eichstätt / Munich, Point 2.17 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), 2007, Faculty II of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (there also photo of the building)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Hartbrunner, Münchner Zeitensprünge
  4. ↑ Bavaria in the first four-year plan: Memorandum of the Bavarian state government on March 9, 1937 , Zentralverlag der NSDAP, F. Eher Nachf., 1937
  5. ↑ Munich and the surrounding area, Tegernsee, Schliersee, Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen: travel guide , Baedeker's travel guides, edition 3, Karl Baedeker, 1955, p. 96
  6. ^ Karl Fiehler, Munich builds up , central publishing house of the NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., 1937, p. 162
  7. ^ Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese e. V. , Volume 40, Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese (ed.), Verlag des Verein für Augsburg Diocesan History, 2006, p. 56
  8. ↑ Ruth Hanna Sachs, The White Rose Travel Guide , ISBN 0982298447 , Exclamation! Publishers, 2008, p. 12
  9. ^ Roman Pencil Stein SJ, Topography of Resistance in Munich
  10. ↑ Simone Egger, "Munich is becoming more modern": City and atmosphere in the long 1960s , dissertation, ISBN 3-839-42282-5 , Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, p. 289
  11. ↑ From the S&S archives: 1,749 Troops in Frankfurt parade for Gen. Bradley January 29, 2004, original report from the European edition of The Stars and Stripes , September 1947 edition
  12. ↑ Baumeister trade journal , 6/1973, Callwey, Munich 1973
  13. ↑ Personal entry : Branca, Alexander Frhr. from in a database of the Technical University of Munich
  14. ↑ New look, new chef: Fresh breeze at the Seehaus in the evening newspaper of April 9, 2011
  15. ↑ WM: Waldi broadcasts from the "Seehaus" at Merkur Online on May 6, 2010
  16. ↑ The Gerd show is a guest at Merkur Online in Munich

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '38 "  N , 11 ° 35' 52.8"  E