Hasbach (bookstore)
The bookstore & Antiquariat AL Hasbach eU is a bookstore in the wool line 29 in the first district of Vienna . The bookstore has been in Vienna for over 140 years and specializes in antiquarian books as well as books on Vienna, history , philosophy and children's books .
history
The bookstore was founded on October 1, 1876 in the Kärntnerhof by Ludwig Bloch and August Ludwig Hasbach. On March 10, 1885 Bloch left the company. On February 12, 1911, the bookstore moved to Schulerstraße 18. On January 1st, 1914, the bookstore was taken over by Carl Borufka and on September 1st, 1925, a second shop was added at 9 Wollzeile. In 1934 the bar at Schulerstrasse 18 was closed and moved to the more frequented Wollzeile 29, where the shop of the antiquarian firm JJ Plaschka was acquired. Carl Borufka died on September 2, 1944 after a long illness.
During the war, the company was only kept up with the help of family members, as almost all employees were drafted into the Wehrmacht. The shop in Wollzeile 29 had to be closed. Hermine Borufka, Carl B's widow, continued to run the business on a makeshift basis at No. 9 Wollzeile, supported by her son Fritz. The second son, Herbert, was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was captured by the British on the invasion front in July 1944. In March 1945 Fritz died in the Mauthausen concentration camp . In June 1946 Herbert returned to Vienna after two years of imprisonment. The shop at Wollzeile 29 was reopened in addition to the shop at Wollzeile 9.
In 1976 the company celebrated its 100th anniversary, when HC Artmann read from his works. Herbert B. died after a short illness in 2011 and his son Michael Borufka took over the bookstore.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Company logs. In: Wiener Zeitung , October 27, 1876, p. 962 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Company logs. In: Wiener Zeitung , March 15, 1885, p. 420 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Company. In: Hasbach. Accessed December 15, 2019 (German).
- ^ Georg Hupfer: On the history of the antiquarian book trade in Vienna . Ed .: Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Vienna 2003, p. 112 ( wienbibliothek.at [PDF]).