Gottlieb Wagner (restaurateur)

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Wagner with crank (around 1860)

Gottlieb Wagner (born October 17, 1794 in Schieben , † October 6, 1878 at the Rudelsburg ) was a German vineyard worker in the Saale valley . He was an innkeeper at the Rudelsburg for over 50 years and became famous throughout Germany as Samiel .

Preliminary remark

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Rudelsburg near Bad Kösen belonged to Gut Kreipitzsch , which was managed by the barons of Schönberg . They grew wine on the slopes of the castle. At this time the discovery of the Saale valley and its castle landscape began in the course of the romanticism of castles and hikers.

Like the other castles, the Rudelsburg had fallen into disrepair for centuries and was at times misused as a quarry. There was no infrastructure. There was no access to the castle and no closed rooms within the castle. The buildings were largely in ruins. Nonetheless, the Rudelsburg quickly became known as the “most beautiful of all Saale castles” with a corresponding attraction. Especially students from Jena wandering in the Saale Valley insisted on taking a break at the castle.

Life

Around 1824, the vineyard worker Gottlieb Wagner began to serve hikers resting at the castle from Gut Kreipitzsch. In 1827, Carl Peter Lepsius , District Administrator of the Naumburg district , asked the landlord Friedrich von Schönberg whether it was not possible to officially open the ruins to visitors. Then a road was built from Kösen to the castle. At Easter 1827 Wagner set up the tavern in the ruin - still "in the Lord's vineyard" - which was initially only open on Sundays. The students of the University of Jena jubilantly occupied the castle and brought the castle owner a torchlight procession .

Pacemaker of tourism

Rudelsburg under Kreipitzsch (2011)

Due to the better accessibility and the organized catering, the attractiveness of the castle increased considerably. More and more visitors came from further away, including the students from the University of Leipzig and the Friedrichs University in Halle .

Jena students gave him the nickname Samiel . Like the Freischütz in Carl Maria von Weber's opera, they shouted “Help, Samiel!” - but not with the shot, but with the beer. He was solemnly "baptized" in the biblical name.

In 1848 the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV) was founded in Jena as the umbrella organization for student corps in Germany. Kösen soon became a meeting place and the Rudelsburg a popular meeting place - now for corps students from all states of the German Confederation . "Samiel" became famous. In 1853 he hosted the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV for the Saxon provincial estates , who was in the area for a maneuver.

Gottlieb "Samiel" Wagner ran his castle tavern with the support of his wife, daughter and son-in-law for half a century. In all of the pictures he is holding a “crank”, a typical Jena wooden beer mug. Later the tavern was leased. The tenant was obliged to look after and look after the old man in the “Samiel cave” of the castle. Even today there is a guest room in the deeper part of the castle, the "Samiel vault".

Samiel died shortly before his 84th birthday in "his" castle. His request for a burial on the castle grounds could not be granted. On October 9, 1878, he was buried in the community of Tultewitz south of the Rudelsburg.

Burggeist

In the courtyard of the Rudelsburg, depiction from 1872, in the foreground, with a beer mug in his hand, the Rudelsburg host "Samiel", who had already died at that time

Fritz Reuter from Mecklenburg dedicated a poem to the "Burggeist auf der Rudelsburg":

The linden tree rustles in the courtyard, the
crowd is sitting
at the old oak tables,
The material is fresh and clear,

The old walls greet
So friendly and familiar,
How often did I watch all of this
as a studio.

There are the old pictures,
Only one
thing is missing in soul '- This is the old castle spirit,
The brave Samiel!

today

Kreipitzsch Manor (2011)

The gastronomic tradition is maintained today by the Rudelsburg Castle Restaurant and the Hotel & Restaurant Rittergut Kreipitzsch .

literature

  • Theodor Hölcke: Samiel help! In: Einst und Jetzt , Volume 22 (1977), pp. 219-221.
  • Rüdiger Kutz: The chronicle of the Rudelsburg and its monuments. As of November 17, 1991. In: Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Help Samiel . Universal lexicon