Mushroom kiosk
A mushroom kiosk is a typical 1950s kiosk building in the shape of a toadstool , which was originally developed as a "milk mushroom" to promote the sale of milk and dairy products .
background
The economic miracle of the 1950s was reflected in the regained prosperity. Since alcohol wasn't available until the age of 21, it was considered chic to meet in milk bars and ice cream parlors . At the same time, dairies and their products also competed in Germany against the new soft drinks that could be bought easily and conveniently at every kiosk. There was a lack of such outlets for milk.
This supply gap was to be closed with the idea of a milk kiosk with a wide range of dairy products. The first kiosk in the shape of a toadstool was presented as a so-called “milk consumer advertiser” at the conference of the “Metropolitan Milk Supply Companies” in May 1952 in Bayreuth and was later brought to Regensburg. Later the manufacturer, Hermann Waldner KG from Wangen im Allgäu , had both the design and the name “Milchpilz” legally protected. Since a milk kiosk should have a high recognition value, Hermann Waldner's son Anton, at the time managing director, chose the distinctive shape of a fly agaric .
The actual construction of the building was a white painted wooden prefabricated building. In its original form, the kiosk was covered by a flexible, water-repellent roof membrane made of polyvinyl chloride (trade name Mipolam ). It had the characteristic red color with white spots. In the course of the color and structural aging, this soft PVC also shrank noticeably, so that some specimens were soon covered with a massive metal roof skin and then painted in a comparable style.
Milk mushrooms ex works had a total height of around 4.0 meters and a roof width of 4.60 meters. The diameter of the usable space was 3.15 meters. It had four sliding windows, a glass door, three built-in tables, and four shelves. Built-in refrigerator, hot water storage tank with wash basin, whipped cream dispenser and ice machine could be purchased as additional standardized devices.
On the part of the authorities, however, resistance arose: The Württemberg State Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Ludwigsburg wrote in a letter dated August 12, 1952 to the management of Waldner: “I think the design of your mushroom-shaped milk houses is completely absurd. The rejection of this building, which would be better suited to America, by the city building authorities is okay. I don't think it takes a milk mushroom to make milk drinks popular. Reliable service and low prices will add more than tasteless advertising. "
The mushrooms were not only marketed in Germany, but also exported across Europe to Austria , Switzerland , Italy , France , Belgium and Greece .
The last position in the Waldner KG order book is number 49: The delivery took place on November 21, 1958 to Mannheim .
Locations
Eight of the kiosks sold are still in operation today:
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Bregenz , Bregenz district , Vorarlberg , Austria → Seestrasse / main entrance to Seeanlagen ( 47 ° 30 ′ 17.72 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 46.44 ″ E ) |
On the shores of Lake Constance in Bregenz at the main entrance to the lake facility opposite the Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) is the milk mushroom delivered on July 20, 1953.
In the 1990s, it got in the way of traffic planners. After a public protest, the demolition plans were off the table and it was only moved a few meters to its current location at the level crossing. It has been a listed building since 2007 . The owner is Vorarlberg Milch eGen . The Milchpilz Bregenz is the only kiosk that still serves its original purpose, the sale of milk and dairy products, although the original range has been expanded to include baked goods. In 2015 the state capital Bregenz signed an option contract with Vorarlberg Milch. This grants the city a thirty-year right to purchase the property at a price of 20,000 euros with a secured value, in order to ensure that the milk mushroom will also be preserved for the citizens of Bregenz in the future. |
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Lindau (Bodensee) , Lindau (Bodensee) , Bayern , Germany → Sina Kinkelin-Platz 1 ( 47 ° 32 '52.94 " N , 9 ° 40' 56.43" O ) |
The Lindau milk mushroom is the first mass-produced mushroom. He was delivered on May 13, 1952. Its location is on the north side of the island of Lindau below the Thiersch Bridge. Today it is under monument protection (D-7-76-116-533) and is still in operation, currently as a kiosk with a bar license, Vesper menu and beer garden. |
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Mardorf , Neustadt am Rübenberge , Hanover region , Lower Saxony , Germany → Warteweg / Uferweg am Steinhuder Meer ( 52 ° 29 ′ 11.05 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 21.11 ″ E ) |
The milk kiosk is located on the north bank of the Steinhuder Meer at the jetty "Mardorfer Warte" of Steinhuder Personenschifffahrt & Berufssegler GmbH. The so-called "fly agaric" at the southern end of the waiting path was set up in front of the culvert in 1952 and later developed into a fish sandwich station with an extension. In 2004 the monument was renovated and reopened, but had to be completely renovated in the winter of 2012/2013. The reason was the renewal of the riverside path. For this, the fungus had to be moved at least temporarily. It was noticeable that many wooden planks on the handle had rotted and the tarpaulin of the hood was weathered. Only the frame construction was still intact. In addition to the mushroom, a wood extension with a storage room and public toilet was built. It reopened in July 2013 and serves as a snack and ice cream stand. Owner is the real municipality. Since April 2019 the mushroom has been reopened under the name "Klücks Pilz". |
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Oldendorf , Borgholzhausen , Gütersloh district , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany → Versmolder Strasse ( 52 ° 5 ′ 8.88 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 3.59 ″ E ) |
The kiosk in Borgholzhausen-Oldendorf is used as a snack bar. The interior of the mushroom is used for food preparation, the food can be consumed in a wood extension. The existence of this kiosk is endangered by the extension of the federal motorway 33 between Borgholzhausen and Bielefeld . While the traffic from the end of the expansion of the autobahn is currently being guided completely past the kiosk, the completion of the gap closure can be expected to result in a significant reduction in traffic volume. The operator therefore had a larger replica of the mushroom made about 1.4 kilometers to the southwest at the Borgholzhausen truck stop. This snack bar, located at Kurt-Nagel-Strasse 2a, has a diameter of 12 meters and a sturdy lamella roof.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 25, 2007 and opened on January 6, 2008. ( 52 ° 4 '45.95 " N , 8 ° 14' 58.32" O ) |
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Regensburg , Bavaria , Germany → Fürst-Anselm-Allee ( 49 ° 0 ′ 48.24 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 56.04 ″ E ) |
The Regensburg milk mushroom, which has been a listed building since 2003, in Fürst-Anselm-Allee (D-3-62-000-1587) replaced the prototype that was installed in Regensburg after the Bayreuth conference in 1952. It bears the serial type no. 38, 1954, and is now used as a standing café. |
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Rose garden , Harburg district , Lower Saxony , Germany → Open-air museum on the Kiekeberg , water playground ( 53 ° 26 ′ 21.37 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 28.01 ″ E ) |
The milk kiosk, which was delivered to R. Scherer, operator of the train station restaurant in Ingelheim am Rhein , on May 7, 1955 , stood opposite the northeast corner of Ingelheim train station until 1999. When mixed milk drinks and milk bars went out of fashion, it was used as a taxi control center at times. When the station area was completely rebuilt, the mushroom that had meanwhile stood empty had to give way. It was carefully dismantled and stored by the senior boss Dirk Gemünden of the construction company Karl Gemünden GmbH & Co. KG, which was involved in the development of the property and the new building.
In 2007, the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg was looking for buildings for the new exhibition area “Post-war times in the country”. After initial contact, Dirk Gemünden gave the museum the mushroom kiosk without further ado. After extensive restoration, it has served as a kiosk for ice cream, drinks and snacks in the open-air museum since 2008. In August 2014, the mushroom kiosk was recreated in a smaller version than the original during a hands-on campaign in Ingelheim and can now be borrowed. |
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Wangen , district Ravensburg , Baden-Württemberg , Germany → fairground (corner Klosterbergstrasse / Aumühleweg) ( 47 ° 41 '3.94 " N , 9 ° 49' 59.33" O ) |
The Wangener mushroom, whose wooden framework no longer corresponds to the original state, is still cultivated. During a restoration, it was fitted with new walls that now have curved windows.
In the last few years it went through several changes of tenant, but was always used as a snack - from kebab to bratwurst to Thai food, dishes of different nationalities were already offered in the mushroom. It received a new interior design in 2009. |
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Leopoldstadt , Vienna , Austria → Wurstelprater ( 48 ° 12 ′ 56.21 ″ N , 16 ° 24 ′ 1.07 ″ E ) |
The mushroom kiosk in Wiener Wurstelprater, at the corner of Leichtweg and Jantschweg, was clad with a square wooden wall. The structure of today's “Schwammerlhütte” can still be recognized by its round roof shape. It is used as a snack stand for mushroom dishes. |
Other still preserved Waldner milk mushrooms or mushroom kiosks of unclear status are:
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Bad Harzburg , district of Goslar , Lower Saxony , Germany → wheel waterfall , North Straße 17 ( 51 ° 51 '12.97 " N , 10 ° 32' 49.31" O ) |
The mushroom kiosk on Bundesstraße 4 is used by the Waldgaststätte Radau-Wasserfall to sell souvenirs. |
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Bad Sachsa , Göttingen district , Lower Saxony , Germany → Hindenburgstrasse 9 ( 51 ° 35 '51.44 " N , 10 ° 33' 0.63" O ) |
The milk mushroom in Bad Sachsa is now used for advertising purposes by the nearby Hotel Lindenhof. |
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Frankenthal (Pfalz) , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany → Nachtweideweg 44 ( 49 ° 32 ′ 20.46 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 22.3 ″ E ) |
The building was operated from 1952 to 1962 as a milk mushroom by the Frankenthal / Pfalz dairy cooperative at the Frankenthaler Strandbad and from 1962 to 1978 as a kiosk at the current location. Restoration followed in 1983 (roof) and 2003. | |
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Heidelberg , Baden-Württemberg , Germany → Im Neuenheimer Feld 304, directly at the Botanical Garden of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (southwest side of the cafeteria) ( 49 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 12.46 ″ E ) |
It has not yet been clarified whether the so-called “Bierpilz” is a converted milk kiosk from Waldner. | |
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Wehrda , Marburg District of Marburg , Hessen , Germany → Zum Marienhäuschen 9 ( 50 ° 49 ′ 59.38 ″ N , 8 ° 45 ′ 16.2 ″ E ) |
A milk mushroom can still be found in the garden of the former Zwergenschänke restaurant , then a popular restaurant near Marburg-Wehrda. However, this is possibly a replica. |
Miniature edition
These "mushrooms" also became known through a miniature version of the Faller company for model railways . The model for the nominal size H0 has been in the range since 1961.
literature
- Bettina Vaupel : Toadstool milk: only a few kiosks survived the 1950s . In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Monuments : Magazine for Monument Culture in Germany No. 11/12 , December 2008, focus: Cultural monuments in transition
Web links
- The Pilzkiosk , a web project by Andreas Weyand
- On the trail of the milk mushroom , a post on Janina Schütz's blog
- There is enough seriousness. The photographer and architect Hendrik Bohle on the Regensburg milk mushroom at Moderne-regional.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pilzkiosk.de
- ↑ Ascent begins in a modest workshop . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from September 1, 2008
- ↑ The mushroom in Regensburg ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - Bavaria 1
- ^ Eva Moser: Bodensee: Three countries - culture and landscape between Stein am Rhein, Konstanz and Bregenz . DuMont, Cologne, 2nd edition 2002, here p. 260.
- ↑ Sabrina Stauber: Milk mushroom as a meeting point: The popular mushroom kiosk on Bregenz Seestrasse is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year . In: Vienna.at of August 17, 2013; accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ Should the milk mushroom be preserved? In: Vorarlberg Online from February 9, 2007
- ^ Milchpilz Bregenz ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ fst: The future of the “Milchpilz” in Bregenz is assured . In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten of February 5, 2015
- ↑ rj: Cult in Bregenz: the milk mushroom. The city secures the right of first refusal for the "small sight" ( memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Scroll. Independent weekly newspaper for the Bregenz region with official announcements from the state capital . 33rd year, issue KW 7 of February 12, 2015, p. 14
- ↑ List of monuments for Lindau at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Home stories: The “milk mushroom kiosk” in Lindau . Contribution from the series we in Bavaria the Bavarian television on 10 September 2014
- ↑ The mushroom is back . In: Steinhuder Meer and more. A magazine of the Leine newspaper from March 28, 2013, p. 16.
- ↑ Realgemeinde inaugurates the “fly agaric”. The landmark is on the north bank ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Wunstorfer Stadtanzeiger . Issue no. 30B of July 27, 2013
- ^ Anke Schneider: Gottesmann instead of Burger King ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Haller Kreisblatt from January 3, 2008; Retrieved February 24, 2015, Memento
- ↑ List of monuments for Regensburg at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Ingelheimer Milchpilz ends up in the North German open-air museum . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of the Rhein Main publishing group from May 6, 2014; accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ “Milk mushroom” as it stood in many places. A splash of color between the rubble - the mushroom kiosk from Ingelheim . In: Heimatanzeiger online ; accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ Milk mushroom - A kiosk from the 1950s! Open-air museum on the Kiekeberg
- ↑ Mushroom kiosk built by children for children . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of August 25, 2014; accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ Milk mushroom is "polished up" . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of August 7, 2009; accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ www.modelleisenbahnfan.de - product description