Coffee axis
Coffee axis is an ironic term for residents of Saxony , alluding to their alleged special love for coffee . The origin of the word coffee axis is traced back to the course axes . In the 18th and 19th Century for the fact that, besides tea and chocolate, coffee in particular became popular. The term is mentioned in the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm , in connection with the expression Soupschwabe , which in the vernacular referred to the Swabians' preference for soup .
Importance of coffee in Saxony
Saxony has played an important role in the development of German coffee culture in many ways, not least in the invention and use of European porcelain for the courtly as well as the bourgeois coffee table and the custom of afternoon coffee and, next to Vienna, the coffee house . With the restaurant Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum, Leipzig has one of the oldest continuously operated café-restaurants in Europe. Coffee was already served publicly in Leipzig in 1694 and in 1697 the first German "coffee house regulations" were issued. Coffee (in strength and composition), the possession of Meissen porcelain with flower painting in particular (see Blümchenkaffee and Schwerterkaffee for particularly weak coffee in Meissen cups) increasingly gained prestige.
The Saxons' preference for coffee, which has been documented since the 18th century, was already the subject of ridicule in the 19th century. The cliché of the “Coffee Saxons ” is partly under the motto Without Gaffee, don't gämpfn! attributed to the Seven Years War . The golden coffee stuff created by Johann Melchior Dinglinger for August the Strong , which contains gold, silver, enamel and ivory as well as around 5,600 diamonds, became famous .
As early as the 19th century, serious considerations and calculations on the influence of Saxon coffee consumption on import statistics and the negative balance of payments were documented. After the rétablissement (Kursachsen) , an early economic miracle in the 18th century, Saxony was the leading German business location until the 20th century and accordingly broader sections of the population were able to afford the “prestigious” coffee. The occasional compulsion to replace real coffee with surrogates has led, since the beginning of German coffee culture, in times of need such as the continental blockade and the war and post-war periods to terms such as “Schon- und Kinderkaffee”. However, the cliché of Fritz-Bliemchen , who was constantly drinking coffee , named after a funny figure of the same name in the Leipzig garden gazebo , together with the mockery of the local dialect, did not emerge until the end of the 19th century.
Others
- In 1908, Melitta Bentz from Dresden - who gave the Melitta company its name - invented the filter bag . The utility model No. 347895 was registered with the Imperial Patent Office .
- Due to poor harvests in Brazil, world market prices for coffee imports rose in the 1970s. With their chronic lack of foreign currency, the GDR could not pay them. That the state leadership to introduce a coffee mixes with chicory decided led to substantial protests of the population.
- The terms for Blümchenkaffee include the following, although some of these are also used in Central and Eastern Germany.
- Blembe, Blämbe: thin, bad coffee
- Bliemschen: Coffee with a lot of milk
- Bliemchen coffee: thin coffee, malt, substitute coffee
- Lursche, Lurke, Lorge: for a lousy drink and especially for thin coffee
- Muckefuck: also more widely used for substitute coffee or thin bean coffee
Movies
- Carom episode 562, Arte, 2018
literature
- Ulla Heise: Coffee has to be sweet! Three centuries of European coffee culture and the Coffee Saxons. Museum for the History of the City of Leipzig, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-910034-04-7 (Exhibition April 28 – June 12, 1994, Leipzig City History Museum in the Old Town Hall, Eduscho Bremen Collection).
- Manuel Schramm: Consumption and regional identity in Saxony 1880–2000: the regionalization of consumer goods in the field of tension between nationalization and globalization (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplements, No. 164). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08169-0 ( Dissertation Uni Leipzig 2001, 326 pages).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regensburger Zeitung Neubauer, 1852, Miszellen Kaffeesachsen, p. 148.
- ↑ Astrid Pawassar: DuMont Illustrated Atlas Travel Guide Saxony . DuMont Reiseverlag, p. 71. June 5, 2013.
- ^ History of the Electoral State and Kingdom of Saxony: From the middle of the sixteenth century to the most recent period: 1553–1831. 2, Perthes, 1831, page 485.
- ^ A b Manuel Schramm: Consumption and regional identity in Saxony 1880–2000: the regionalization of consumer goods in the field of tension between nationalization and globalization . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.