Hirschgasse (Heidelberg)
The Hirschgasse is one of the oldest and most famous inns in Heidelberg . It gained importance above all as a long-standing drum club for the local student associations .
history
The hotel is located on the site of a former Meierhof of the Lobenfeld Monastery . This and the surrounding buildings formed the village of Dagersbach in the high Middle Ages , which also had a mill, a church and a cemetery. The village as a community ceased to exist in the late Middle Ages and the district was added to Neuenheim. The place remained populated, however, and along the stream, which was also called Dagersbach , but also Darisbach , Tarsbach and other similar spellings and is now called Schweinsbach , houses can be found on old views from all times since the beginning of the depiction.
In 1472 a garden by the stream flowing down Hirschgasse is mentioned for the first time, in which wine and beer were served. The property was later taken over by the owner of the Gasthaus zum Goldenen Hirschen on the Heidelberg market square , who had a garden with a summer house and fish ponds laid out there around 1580. It was named Hirschgarten after its owner, the Hirschwirt . Later, the property was divided into a smaller Zum Hirschen inn on the Neckar and the estate in the upper Hirschgarten .
In the second half of the 18th century, the upper deer garden and the estate there came into the possession of the Metz host family Ditteney. Georg Adam Ditteney, the progenitor of the Heidelberg family, acquired the sign justice of the Gasthaus zum Hirschen in 1790 and expanded his manor house to include a hall. The Hirschgasse , as the house was soon called, became one of the most popular places for excursions in Heidelberg. When Georg Adam Ditteney died in 1835, the business was passed on to his eldest son Joseph, who ran it until his death in 1873, ultimately supported by his eldest daughter, Elisabeth Dietz, who was widowed at an early age, who initially ran the house on her own after 1873. In 1901 the family sold the property.
Its use as a dining hall can be traced back to the first half of the 19th century. Initially it was often still in the forest in Hirschengasse crammed, later in the great hall of the house itself, the American author. Mark Twain described in his book A Tramp Abroad (German: A Tramp Abroad ) and a Mensurtag in Hirschengasse he during his stay 1878 there experienced:
One day in the interest of science my agent obtained permission to bring me to the students' dueling place. We crossed the river and drove up the bank a few hundred yards, then turned to the left, entered a narrow alley, followed it a hundred yards and arrived at a two-story public house; we were acquainted with its outside aspect, for it was visible from the hotel. We went upstairs and passed into a large whitewashed apartment which was perhaps fifty feet long by thirty feet wide and twenty or twenty-five high. It was a well-lighted place. There was no carpet. Across one end and down both sides of the room extended a row of tables, and at these tables some fifty or seventy-five students were sitting.
“One day, out of a scientific interest, my agent obtained permission to take me to the students' hall. We crossed the river and drove up the bank a few hundred yards, then turned left, came into a narrow avenue, followed it a hundred yards, and came to a two-story inn; We were already familiar with the sight of it, as it could be seen from the hotel. We went up the stairs and entered a large, white-painted room that was perhaps fifty feet long, thirty feet wide, and twenty to twenty-five feet high. The room was brightly lit. There was no carpet. At one end and on either side of the room were a series of tables, and at those tables were about fifty to seventy-five students. "
After the First World War , the Hirschgasse was temporarily replaced by locations in Neckarsteinach in Hesse due to the ban on the scale in Baden . It was not until the relaxation of the legislation in the summer semester of 1933 that the Mensur Days were held regularly in Heidelberg again until the corporation associations were dissolved in 1935/36.
Even after the Second World War it was not possible to fight openly at first. The first scales took place in the corporation houses . Only gradually did the drumbeat return to Hirschgasse. After a fire in the winter of 1954, the interior of the building was redesigned. The drum hall was rebuilt in simpler forms. The last measure there was in 1979. Since then, the corporations of the Heidelberg Interest Group and the Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention (SC) have been fencing almost exclusively on their homes.
Today the Hotel Hirschgasse is located here with the restaurant serving upscale gastronomy "Le Gourmet". The dishes are served in the former dining room, among other places. In 2013 the kitchen of “Le Gourmet” was awarded a Michelin star.
The building is a historical monument.
See also
literature
- Berthold Kuhnert: History of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg 1802-1869 , o. O. 1913, ND Heidelberg 1997
- Volker von Offenberg: Cheers Heidelberg! The history of the Heidelberg breweries and beer bars (= series of publications by the Heidelberg City Archives, special publication 15), Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2005
- Mark Twain: Stroll through Europe . Original title A Tramp Abroad . First printed in London 1880
- Theodor Lorentzen: Chronik der Hirschgasse (reprint of the original edition published by Otto Petters in Heidelberg in 1910) Hilden: WJK 2004, ISBN 3-933892-76-7 .
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Eugen Holl: Gone out places in the Rhine-Neckar area and in the nearby Odenwald , in: District Association Handschuhsheim e. V. Yearbook 2015 , Heidelberg 2015, pp. 29–35, here pp. 32–33.
- ↑ Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad. First printed in London 1880
- ↑ "The Heidelberger SC again on Hirschgasse", ms. Report, Institute for Higher Education , Kösener Archive, A 1 No. 554
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung: "Le Gourmet" finally got a star
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg, Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 8 ° 42 ′ 54 ″ E