Lorenz Caviezel

Lorenz Caviezel was a confectioner from Riga in what is now Latvia and the son of Johann Caviezel.

Caviezel, whose family emigrated from the German to the Russian Empire in the late 18th century and had founded a pastry shop in Riga, settled in Tallinn / Reval and opened Estonia's first pastry shop there on 23 September 1806 at Langstrasse 16 . Although Caviezel and his family moved back to Riga in 1835 for business reasons, his pastry shop was continued: In 1864 it was taken over by Georg Johann Stude (1839–1919), who founded the café “Maiasmokk” (English: “Schleckmaul”), which still exists today which in turn later laid the foundation stone for AS Kalev , today the largest confectionery manufacturer in Estonia.

The Caviezel, a Rhaeto-Romanic family that is still widespread in Graubünden in Switzerland, split up after the Reformation, like many other Graubünden families, into a Catholic and a Reformed branch. The Reformed branch emigrated from Reischen to the German Empire in the second half of the 18th century and after 1750 had success as a confectioner in Berlin, Leipzig and Anklam.

Johann Caviezel (1764–1824), Lorenz's father, worked in his father's pastry shop in Anklam until 1787 and in 1796 took over a pastry shop in Riga, which was also founded by emigrants from Graubünden. In 1805 he and his brother Heinrich bought the Rigahaus in Chur as a retirement home. He died in Chur in 1824.

In Estonia, the Caviezel family is still present today, as Kalev dates its origin to 1806 in its logo.

literature

• Heino Gustavson: AS Kalev. Eelaeg, sin yes elu . Tallinn 1999.

Web links

• Roman Bühler: Caviezel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .