Oberhafenkantine

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Oberhafenkantine 2012
Served drink at 8.7 ° incline
Pumpkin soup in the Oberhafenkantine illustrates the slope of the building

The Oberhafenkantine is a small, listed building in Hamburg that operates a restaurant. The rooms are clearly sloping.

history

The Oberhafenkantine was built in 1925 by the landlord Hermann Sparr as a so-called coffee hatch in the Port of Hamburg at Stockmeyerstraße 39. The coffee flaps served to provide the port and shipyard workers with non-alcoholic drinks and hot meals.

It goes back to a design by the architect Willy Wegner and is an example of expressionist functional architecture , the so-called North German clinker or brick expressionism . The location is the Oberhafen in what is now Hamburg's HafenCity district at the end of Stockmeyerstrasse below the Oberhafenbrücke . In Hamburg, the Oberhafenkantine is one of the few coffee hatches still in existence. It has a 3 × 7.5 meter small area on the ground floor and a tower-like stacked floor that originally served as a storage room. As the building is located directly at the quayside of the upper harbor, it is both through the regular tide as by storm surges been greatly undermined, with time plummeted and fall at an angle.

After the canteen opened, Sparr brought his twelve-year-old daughter Anita to join the family business as a kitchen helper .

The Oberhafenkantine remained in the family's possession until Anita Haendel's death in 1997, after which the canteen was empty and had to be closed shortly afterwards due to the risk of collapse. In 2002 it was bought by the entrepreneur Klausmartin Kretschmer, who also owns the self-managed Rote Flora cultural center in the Sternschanze. It was placed under monument protection on October 19, 2000 , in 2005 the cultural monument was renovated and leased to the celebrity chef Tim Mälzer , whose mother Christa reopened the snack bar in April 2006 in the old canteen style. As in the times of Haendels, traditional, hearty home-style cooking was served with sandwiches , meatballs , stew and potato salad .

On November 9, 2007, hurricane Tilo caused severe damage to the building, so that it had to be renovated again. Since April 2008 the restaurant has been run by changing restaurateurs.

In the summer of 2009, the artist Thorsten Passfeld built a 1: 1 copy of the Oberhafenkantine from found wood just a few meters away from the original in Stockmeyerstraße. The replica is to travel around the world in containers as Hamburg's ambassador for culture and sustainability .

During the hurricane Xaver on January 6th and 7th, 2014, which caused flood levels of up to four meters above mean flood in Hamburg, the building was severely damaged again. The restaurant business temporarily moved to the Brandshof, an old office building on Brandshofer Deich.

Picture gallery

  • Empty Oberhafenkantine 2005, before the renovation

  • Oberhafenkantine 2009

  • Oberhafenkantine at night

  • Served food at 8.7 ° incline

  • Oberhafenkantine 2012 (front view)

  • Oberhafenkantine 2012 (side view)

Web links

Commons : Oberhafenkantine  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments Hamburg-Mitte - Stockmeyerstraße 39: Oberhafen canteen. In: Culture Authority (Hamburg) . October 19, 2000, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The soul of the Oberhafen canteen . In: oberhafenkantine-hamburg.de .
  3. ↑ Almost three months after the death of the old landlady Anita: Oberhafenkantine dies - officially sealed. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . May 23, 1997. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Oberhafen-Kantine: Fight against demolition. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . May 24, 1997, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Original ... and replica. In: Now . September 19, 2009, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Gunda Bartels: Hamburger Oberhafen-Kantine now also in Berlin. In: Tagesspiegel . June 17, 2010, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ After the storm surge: Landunter in the historic harbor canteen. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . December 12, 2013, archived from the original on June 26, 2014 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
  8. ^ Events in the Oberhafenkantine in the Brandshof

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 40.8 "  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 24.7"  E