Leydicke

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Exterior view, 2007

Leydicke is the name of a Berlin liqueur manufacturer that houses one of the last traditional Berlin bars. The distillery and pub , founded in 1877, is located in the Schöneberg district of Berlin on the border with Kreuzberg and has an interior that is essentially unchanged from the 1880s to the 1920s. At the time of the 1968 student movement in Berlin , she was an integral part of the Kreuzberg-Schöneberg scene. The pub, like the former landlady Lucie Leydicke, is considered by some journalists to be a prime example of a “Berlin original”.

history

Interior view, counter with cash register, 2007

The restaurant was founded in 1877 by the brothers Emil and Max Leydicke in the Schöneberger Mansteinstraße as a liqueur and fruit juice factory or schnapps distillery and wine tasting room. In World War II, an incendiary bomb hit the house, pub and distillery but remained largely undamaged. In the 1960s and 1970s, the restaurant with its rustic taproom was preferred by students and tourists. Specialties today are homemade fruit wines and liqueurs. Leydicke stands for a form of German alcohol production inspired by the Netherlands .

From the late 1960s until the fall of the Berlin Wall , the pub became a national attraction: in addition to the regular audience of students, university members and the Berlin scene, tourists from all over the world also came, as did school classes on school trips, a frequent destination in Leydicke . For Americans, however, it was mainly known as a rowdy bar for soldiers. The Leydicke that time was the center of the West Berlin scene, just steps away from risk , next to the Music Hall over the Ex'n'Pop and well ahead such as the SO36 the central meeting place of the Berlin scene. The pub was on the so-called "pub trail" that the left-wing scene ran off in the 1970s. Since then, travel guides have described the distillery as a must, which Berlin visitors should not miss.

In the period of 29 August 1980 an obituary appeared on Lucie Leydicke who until her death last led the local as a senior manager.

The New York Times attested the Leydicke in 1987 : "Even today, the people, the atmosphere and the drinks, homemade berry wines and schnapps, give the impression of having traveled backwards through time." The Washington Post described the visitors in 1991 as a mixture of yuppies and alternative scene dressed in black drinking frighteningly sweet home-brews.

Situation today

Swing concert at Leydicke, 2009

Managing director Raimon Marquardt, Leydicke in the fourth generation, runs the pub according to the principle of not changing anything: the ceiling has never been painted, there are still movie posters from the 1950s and long-playing records from the 1960s on the walls. Concerts and parties with swing, blues, jazz or rock 'n' roll bands take place regularly . Punk veterans like John the Postman come from Manchester every year to celebrate their birthday at Leydicke. Marquardt itself is one of the few certified distillers in Germany. The Berlin magazine zitty recommended the Leydicke as one of the best six Berlin venues to rent. It serves as a film set. A documentary called Lucie's Legacy was broadcast in 2006.

Web links

Commons : Leydicke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ines Brzoka: Again in the Leydicke . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 9, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Peter Peter : Cultural history of German cuisine . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-406-57224-3 , p. 151.
  3. ↑ a b raise your cups! In: The colorful world
  4. ↑ Elmar Schütze: A “completely normal pub” . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 31, 1999
  5. ↑ a b E.M. Leydicke . ( Memento of August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Newberlinmagazine
  6. ↑ a b c Bong Boeldicke: Never again new buildings ( Memento from August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ First pub then alcoholic advice center . Drying press
  8. ↑ Ursula von Kardorff : Berlin. 4th edition, DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1985, p. 37, ISBN 3-7701-1150-8 .
  9. ↑ My Fair Lady Lucie . In: Die Zeit , No. 36/1980
  10. ↑ Krista Weedman: Berlin by Night . In: The New York Times , May 10, 1987
  11. ^ Marc Fisher: Here's How to Shrink Boom-Town Berlin Costs . January 21, 1991
  12. ↑ Ortwin Passon : I'm looking forward to the next liqueur . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 21, 2009
  13. ↑ It's my party: boat tour or garden party - the best locations to rent . ( Memento from March 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: zitty , May 24, 2007
  14. ↑ Photo session with Marco Girnth, Robert Seeliger, Reiner Schöne, Sonsee Neu, Lukas Schust, Carolin Spiess u. v. a. on the set of the big Sat.1 film "Now or never" . Sat 1
  15. ^ Film by the Dekra University

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '33.3 "  N , 13 ° 22' 0.5"  E