Liqueur factory & wine shop Julius Kahlbaum

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Facade of the building in Mauerstrasse

The liqueur factory & wine shop Julius Kahlbaum is a Berlin company founded in 1709, which was based in a listed building from the 19th century on Mauerstrasse in the Mitte district between 1937 and 1990 . The house, which has been in use for around 60 years, is on Bethlehemkirchplatz . The official name of the monument is derived from the company that was located there.

Company history

In 1709 a Julius-Kahlbaumsche tasting room was opened in Old Berlin . This year is considered to be the founding date of the liqueur factory and wine shop Julius Kahlbaum.

Under the name of the founder, the liqueur or fuel factory, originally located at Mauerstraße 51, was continuously passed on to the next generation. From around 1930, the then owner Hermann Schmidt advertised as a liqueur factory, fruit juice press and wine wholesale company. Julius Kahlbaum .

In 1937 the Julius Kahlbaum company moved to the building described here at Mauerstraße 85. Even long after the Second World War , alcohol could be tasted and purchased in the ground floor rooms. Among other things, the Alte Julius Kahlbaumstube opened here in 1952 - based on the founding of the company . Julius Kahlbaum was also present on site in the 1960s . However, the company became part of the VEB Bärensiegel Berlin at the end of the 1970s . It now appeared as the “Kahlbaumstube” restaurant of the Berlin Beverage Combine . In the guest room, visitors could also buy drinks “outside the home”.

Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification did the dealers give up the business at this point.

History of the building

Christian Schmidt, a Berlin teacher, had a new building built here in Mauerstraße, which initially had no side wings. He insured the building in 1824 with the Berlin fire society . In 1835 the headmaster Friedrich Samuel Draeger acquired the property and had the front building extended to four floors by 1839 and a three-story side wing added to the right. The renovation took place in the context of the urban changes in Friedrichstadt , where in the first half of the 19th century, more and more high-storey residential buildings replaced mostly two-storey baroque buildings. Few evidence of this residential development has survived in Friedrichstadt. The liquor store was on the ground floor.

In 1875 the building was expanded again on behalf of the new owner, Wilhelm Schulz, a master painter. Schulz had a four-story transverse building added. At the same time, the front building was given an elaborate painting on the facade, in which encrusted clay slabs were primed in red and provided with painted grouting and ornaments in the style of the neo-Renaissance . Schulz may have done the painting himself. The interiors of the first floor also received stencil paintings, here in the late classicist style.

From 1937 the liqueur factory and wine shop Julius Kahlbaum is located on the ground floor.

The facade painting on the front building was restored during the restoration of the building between 1994 and 1996. It is one of the few surviving Berlin examples of decorative facade painting from the 19th century. Since then, the building has housed several service companies, including the Berlin agency for senior care Kursana of the Dussmann Group .

literature

  • Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): Monuments in Berlin. Mitte district. Mitte district . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-80-6 , pp. 373-374.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A fun tasting room (enter 'Kahlbaum' in the search window) at www.nd-archiv.de (the entire article is chargeable.) Accessed on December 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Advertisement from Julius Kahlbaum at Mauerstraße 85, Fernsprechbuch Berlin 1956, with the note parent company founded in 1709 .
  3. ↑ Kahlbaum, Julius . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1933, I, p. 1188.
  4. ^ Address book 1943, Part I, p. 1201.
  5. ^ Official telephone book for Berlin, 1952 edition: Kahlbaum Julius> Alte Julius Kahlbaumstube , accessed on December 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Telephone book Berlin (East), 1964: Julius Kahlbaum, Likörfabrik, owner Edgar Ripp , accessed on December 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Berlin telephone and address book 1986 : Parts of the VEB Bärensiegel: Alte Julius Kahlbaumstube, Mauerstraße 85 . Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ Evaluation of specialty restaurants and pubs in 1978: The Kahlbaumstube took second place. In: Neues Deutschland , (the entire article is chargeable), December 21, 1978. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  9. ^ Mauerstraße 85> owner E. Schmidt; in the house of Kahlbaum, J. Liqueur Factory . In: Berlin address book , 1941, III.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 19.5 ″  E