Hofkonditorei Café Röcker
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| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Hechingen |
| management | Joachim and Christina Röcker |
| Branch | Pastry shop |
| Website | www.Hofkonditorei-Roecker.de |
The Hofkonditorei Café Röcker is a historic confectionery and coffee house on Hechingen's market square.
history
Johann Georg Röcker (1863-1946) from Ofterdingen did his apprenticeship as a pastry chef with Wilhelm Metzger at the Kegeltörle in the Schönblick pastry shop and spent his traveling and journeyman years in German countries and in Italy. In 1892 he went into business for himself when he took over the Nerz confectionery and thus founded his own company. Coffee houses already existed in Hechingen, but these were usually taverns where coffee was also drunk. A café-confectionery in today's sense did not yet exist, in 1901 it first appeared in Hechingen. Johann Georg Röcker became successful and, in addition to the bourgeoisie, also counted the nobility among the customers and finally the princely court. In 1909 he was appointed court confectioner . Several children arose from her marriage to Agnes Röcker († 1962).
Albert Röcker (1909–1980), Johann Georg's third son, successfully passed his master craftsman's examination in Munich in 1936 and later took over his father's pastry shop. The outbreak of World War II brought difficult times for the Röcker family. In 1940 Albert Röcker had to go to war, the pastry shop was closed for a few years. The premises were used by IBM as a patent office. In 1943 Albert Röcker returned from the war seriously wounded and later married Friederike Berkmann, who came from Scheidegg and who then worked in a pastry shop.
In the post-war years 1945–48, the house was used by the French occupying forces , and Johann Georg Röcker and his family had to vacate it. The French first set up an officers' mess for NCOs and men. Later the building became the seat of the French gendarmerie and a reading room with German and French literature was set up, which existed until 1949. Johann Georg Röcker died in April 1946 at the age of 83. He was carried to his grave in his confectioner's jacket and snow-white balloon cap .
In 1948 the pastry shop was reopened by Albert Röcker and his mother. The business regained importance so that a new building for the old coffee house was considered in the 1960s. On October 15, 1965, the old building was demolished, and the neighboring Schneider'sche Haus was affected. After long negotiations about the Schneider estate and the district office , city building authority and the state office for the preservation of monuments 1965-67, the new building could begin at the end of June 1967. On November 30, 1968 the pastry shop reopened.
Joachim Röcker (* 1947), the second child from the marriage between Albert and Friederike Röcker, also passed the master's examination in Munich in 1970. When he was gaining practical experience in the confectionery trade in Switzerland, he met Christina Wyss, whom he married in 1978. Albert Röcker died on Rose Monday 1980 and, like his father, was buried in his confectioner's clothes. His son Joachim Röcker took over the pastry shop. Salesrooms and the café were renovated and the shop reopened in 1982.
The first-born son of Joachim and Christina Röcker, Thomas Röcker, followed the family tradition and passed the master's examination at the master school in Munich in 2006 as the best of his year.
The confectionery is a member of the State Guild Association of the Confectionery Trade Baden-Württemberg Guild Sigmaringen-Zollernalb.
Products
The products of the confectionery include cakes , pies and pastries for all occasions, Salmendinger wood-fired bread and homemade jam .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the Hofkonditorei Röcker. Hofkonditorei Röcker, November 23, 2009, accessed on November 23, 2009 .
- ^ Members of the Sigmaringen-Zollernalb guild. Baden-Württemberg State Association of Confectioners' Guilds, November 4, 2009, accessed on November 4, 2009 .
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '7.39 " N , 8 ° 57' 48.76" E