Queen Luise House

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The Queen Luise House in Leipzig at the time of its opening
The Queen Luise House 2017

The Königin-Luise-Haus is a building belonging to the Leipzig district of Stötteritz at Prager Straße 191 opposite the main entrance to the Südfriedhof , which was built in 1913 as an alcohol-free restaurant.

history

As part of the abstinence movement at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Ottilie Hoffmann founded the German Association of abstinent women in Bremen , which spread throughout Germany and was called the German Women's Association for Alcohol-Free Culture from 1924 . The aim of the association was the operation of alcohol-free restaurants. The state association of the Kingdom of Saxony was located in Dresden , and a local association was founded in Leipzig.

When the Saxon state chairman Gustel von Blücher was in Leipzig for a lecture in April 1912 and saw the Monument to the Battle of the Nations , which was under construction , she was so impressed that the idea arose that, in addition to the symbol of liberation from the external tyrant, there should also be a symbol of the future liberation from the inner, alcohol, in the form of a non-alcoholic restaurant. As early as the end of May 1912, the general assembly of the German Association of Abstinent Women in Freiburg im Breisgau took the decision to build a large-scale non-alcoholic refreshment shop at the above location. The name of the most popular German princess during the Napoleonic era , Queen Luise of Prussia , was chosen because she was the "most popular princess of that time [of the anti-Napoleonic wars]". The German Association of Abstinent Women ran fundraising by publishing a play and asking noble women for support, the latter, however, mostly in vain.

The representative property was acquired very quickly. The Dresden architects of Leipzig Central Station , William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne , were commissioned with the planning. Construction began on March 11, 1913, and the opening ceremony took place on September 18, 1913, four weeks before the inauguration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. Gertraud Brinkmann became the first and longstanding director.

The main hall with adjoining large veranda and the smoking room were located on the high ground floor. Upstairs there were two small connecting rooms. The basement, basement and attic contained technical and operating rooms as well as living rooms for the staff. There was a large children's playground in the garden. The offer extended to all meals. Spicy dishes were avoided and a lot of vegetables were offered as well as homemade cakes, coffee, tea, milk and fruit drinks. In the so-called advance booking system, you ordered and paid for at the cash register before you were served.

After the Second World War , a polyclinic was housed in the house instead of the restaurant . After the fall of the Wall , the building housed various medical practices. In preparation for its centenary, it was extensively renovated and completely restored at the end of 2015. Today a physiotherapy practice and other service facilities are located there. You can also rent apartments for a city break.

literature

  • Birte Förster: The Queen Luise Myth. Media history of the “ideal image of German femininity” 1860–1960. (= Forms of Memory , Volume 46.) Göttingen 2011, p. 263 f.
  • Karin Bruns: National and German national women's associations in the "Second Reich". In: Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): Handbook on the “Völkische Movement” 1871–1918. Munich 1996, pp. 376-394.
  • DK: The Königin-Luise-Haus, an alcohol-free coffee and dining house in Leipzig . In: Strietzer Blätter, Interesting facts from Stötteritz and the surrounding area , No. 17 (2002) pp. 5–11.
  • Gustel von Bluecher: The Queen Luise House in Leipzig and the Union of abstinent women (eV). Dresden 1915. ( DNB 572433395 )

Web links

Commons : Königin-Luise-Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blücher, Gustel v .: The Queen Luise House in Leipzig and the German Association of abstinent women . Leipzig 1914, p. 7 .
  2. ↑ Birte Förster: The Queen Luise myth. Media history of the “ideal image of German femininity”, 1860–1960 . Göttingen 2011, p. 264 .
  3. ↑ Nosbüsch and Stucke: Lot 16. Accessed on February 18, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 0.5 ″  E