Hotel Rebstock (Waldshut)
The Hotel Rebstock or the Hotel Cep-de-Vigne in Waldshut on what is now the Upper Rhine was an accommodation business between 1577 and 1958 that acquired cult status during the period of romantic trips to Switzerland.
history
The first known predecessor of the Hotel Rebstocks fell victim to the great fire in Waldshut in 1492. According to the 1495 tax list, it was owned by the butcher Hans Schweller. The successor building should have been built from 1493 at the earliest. The first documented mentions of the vine can be found in the Waldshut city accounts, in which the landlord Hans Gerber is mentioned in 1577 and the landlord Fridle Löw in 1583. In 1644, at the time of the French-Swedish occupation, the post office was housed in the vine. The last mention of the now imperial post office in the Rebstock dates from 1692. On September 9, 1764, Hans Jakob Schwengle transferred the business to his son-in-law Matthäus Bölle. On March 3, 1818, the Bölle family acquired the neighboring house, San Marco, which was merged with the vine and was given a uniform facade.
The Bölle family ran the vine until July 27, 1886. Under their leadership, I developed the inn into the first address in the region between Basel and Schaffhausen . Through reports and travel journal entries of the time, the Rebstock gained a worldwide reputation as a hotel assez bien tenue , precisely because of its small inadequacies . The hotel was about halfway between Basel (6 hours by post) and the Rhine Falls (5 hours). Breakfast in the vineyard garden, which was located on the Rhine terrace and offered a magnificent view of the lower Aare valley and the high Rhine valley , made up for the many prominent travelers. The list of deficiencies, on the other hand, ranged from inedible food ( Franz von Waldersee ), rustic furniture, casual cleanliness, rudimentary language skills ( Louis Simond ), drunk staff ( Rafael Guillermo Urdaneta ), English guests ( Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and Samuel Irenaeus Prime ), and the smell of cowsheds (David Bogue) to a hideous swarm of vermin in bed ( Victor Hugo ). With the connection to the railway from 1856–1863 and the construction of the power station, the hotel lost its sometimes high-ranking and prominent clientele.
From 1886 owned by the Kilian brewery, the company increasingly oriented itself towards the local clientele. On December 26, 1895, a fire caused by carelessness during the celebration of a Catholic association spread from the attached ballroom to the hotel building. The building burned out with the inventory. After the First World War, a cinema was set up in the ballroom of the new building. From 1945 to 1950 the building was used by the French occupation. In autumn 1957, the limited partnership Gröber acquired the hotel complex and converted it into a department store, the department store May at Kaiserstrasse 57.
The vine in literature
In 1822 Louis Simond (1761–1831) described his impressions of the vine from 1817 in his travel novel Voyage en Suisse . This section also appeared as a special print and excerpt under the title Extract from his tour in Switzerland . In 1842, Heinrich Zschokke reported in his self-examination a much-noticed psychological seance in the Rebstock at the beginning of the 1820s. For the Rhineland family friend Johann Peter Hebel , the vine was one of the top addresses for a Schöpplein of 1807 wine.
War events
During the First Coalition War , the French Revolutionary Army under Victor Moreau withdrew from Bavaria across the Rhine to Hüningen in October 1796 . The train was led across the High Rhine Valley. On the night of October 5, 170 French infantrymen attacked in Waldshut Chevauxlegers of the Austrian Karaiczay regiment under the command of Colonel Count Maximilian Friedrich von Merveldt . Two high-ranking officers and the military prosecutor (Commissaire du pouvoir exécutif) Nicolas Haussmann were arrested in the Hotel Rebstock. The event in the Rebstock reported in the German press at the time was painted by Johann Baptist Seele . The picture and a counterpart are exhibited today in the Princely Fürstenberg Collections in Donaueschingen .
The Rebstock landlord and town councilor Benedikt Bölle earned merit as a mediator and as a donor of a fire spike during the repeated moves of the French associations. His portrait painted by Josef Reinhard on behalf of the city is now in the Alte Metzig Museum in Waldshut.
The vine in the records of prominent travelers
- Johann Caspar Lavater and Christian von Mechel , 1777
- Franz von Waldersee, 1783
- Johann Peter Hebel, 1808
- Louis Simond, 1822
- Heinrich Zschokke, 1842
- Rafael Guillermo Urdaneta, 1843
- David Bogue, 1853
- Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, 1853
- Samuel Irenaues Prime, 1860
- Victor Hugo, 1869
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Sutter: House names and house signs in the old town of Waldshut, unpublished manuscript, 1992.
- ↑ Konrad Sutter: Here fools danced and the first films were shown, in: Der Waldshuter Erzähler, Alb-Bote from January 25, 1992.
- ↑ Waldshut loses a large hall, Südkurier of February 19, 1958, No. 41, p. 5.
- ↑ online at Google Books (French)
- ^ Arthur Schopenhauer : Letters, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1893, p. 233f. [1]
- ↑ s. Heinrich Zschokke: A self-review , first part The fate and man , Aarau 1842, p. 275 in the Internet archive
- ↑ Johann Peter Hebel: mixed essays, Müller, 1834, p. 215.
- ↑ Alexander Theimer: History of the Imperial and Royal Seventh Uhlanen Regiment Archduke Carl Ludwig from its establishment in 1758 to the end of 1868, L. Sommer, 1869, p. 122. [2]
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '21.4 " N , 8 ° 12' 41.7" E