Ratskeller Leipzig

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Entrance to the Ratskeller, 2010

The Ratskeller Leipzig is a restaurant in Leipzig . It was opened in 1904 in the New Town Hall , which was built on the foundations of the old Pleißenburg . The former Ratsweinkeller in the vaults of the town hall has seven lounges with a total of around 700 seats and has been a restaurant with home- style Saxon cuisine since the late 1990s .

history

Neither in the previous building nor in the old town hall was there a council cellar in Leipzig, as is common elsewhere, in which local beer and locally grown wine were sold. A first wine cellar can only be identified in 1563. From 1573 to 1625, the city council ran a council wine cellar in the house at the golden snake (today Barthels Hof ). Due to the lack of profitability, the council leased the location to the previous Ratsweinschenk from 1626 to 1811 . After the bar continued for a few years under the name Ratsweinkeller , operations were discontinued in 1826. From 1575 there was also a council drinking room in the Alte Waage on the market , which was later also leased.

In 1895 Leipzig bought the Pleißenburg, which had become militarily insignificant, from the Saxon King Albert for over four million gold marks . With the exception of the tower, the fortress was razed in 1897 in order to build a new town hall on the foundations. The builder Hugo Licht emerged as the winner of an international architecture competition ; Based on his designs, the New Town Hall was built between 1899 and 1905 for a total of more than 10 million marks . On the ground plan of an irregular pentagon - around three inner courtyards - a large building complex was built, on the outside without a closed, uniform facade.

Sequence of dishes at the inauguration of the New Town Hall, 1905
Ratskeller menu 1915

The tender for the town hall building in 1896 explicitly provided for a "council cellar with all the utility and ancillary rooms required to run a wine and beer bar", and on May 9, 1902, the council decided to build a city cellar. In the spring of 1903, they began to buy and store wine. The basement rooms provided for this purpose comprised around 2,300 square meters in 1904, and today still around 1,000 square meters. On October 1, 1904, the Ratskeller was opened before the town hall was completed; the first tenant was the Leipzig host Karl Blechschmidt. The premises included in addition to the storage, economic and kitchen areas, the Schopp compartment (288 places), the Gewandhaus hall (204 places) connected trophies equipped hunting room (50 places) and the Ratstrinkstube (35 places); later the wedding room and the Bach hall were added. In 1904 the restaurant offered space for up to 740 guests on 1,056 square meters. On October 7, 1905, on the occasion of the opening of the New Town Hall, the banquet was held in the Ratskeller in the presence of the Saxon King Friedrich August III. held. In 1922 the institution was subordinated directly to the city council, and Hugo Heinke was appointed economic director to manage it. In 1930 they returned to the old form of management, the new tenant Wilhelm Karst took over the Ratskeller until his death in 1945, his wife continued the business until 1949. On September 1, 1949, the Ratskeller became a KWU ( municipal business enterprise ) subordinate to the city, and between 1971 and 1976 the trade organization took over the management of the restaurant. In the following year, the Ratskeller was extensively renovated and given a patio . The head chef Klaus Haustein received the title of Master Chef of the International Class in Berlin in 1987 . From 1990 the Ratskeller was continued as a communal GmbH , on July 1, 1999 the restaurant was privatized under the name Ratskeller der Stadt Leipzig GmbH and then gradually renovated.

On the evening of December 24, 2013, a fire broke out in the Ratskeller after a technical defect ; after renovation work and redesign, the restaurant was reopened on October 1, 2014. On March 27, 2017, the opening of the in-house brewery Leipziger Braumanufaktur took place with the tapping of the barrel by the Mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung , and the Ratskeller has been producing the Lotteraner cellar beer ever since . Between 2010 and 2019, the so-called Lene Voigt Coffee Cabinet was operated in cooperation with the Lene Voigt Society eV , in which exhibits about the dialect poet could be seen and the association's events took place. The room is to be used for beer tastings under the new name Schalander .

In 2019, the Ratskeller houses the guest and event rooms Gewandhaussaal (180 to 250 seats), Großer Keller (150 seats), wine restaurant (120 to 150 seats), Alte Wache (up to 55 seats, former hunting room ), Admiral Bromme Salon (up to 30 seats, former wedding room ), Club Alt-Leipzig (former Bachsaal ) , a bar and an in-house souvenir and gift shop called Lotterladen .

Web links

Commons : Ratskeller Leipzig  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Leipzig Ratskeller. In memory of the inauguration of the New Town Hall, October 1905 . Stadtkellerei publishing house, Leipzig 1904, SWB online catalog 329593714 .
  • Herbert Pilz, Helmut Vogel: The Ratskeller in Leipzig . In: Dies .: Leipziger Kulinarien 1 (1984), ZDB -ID 1175133-2 , pp. 28–31.
  • Herbert Pilz, Helmut Vogel: The Ratskeller celebrates its 80th birthday . In: Dies .: Leipziger Kulinarien 2 (1985), ZDB -ID 1175133-2 , pp. 26-28.
  • Ulla Heise : Ratskeller. Burgplatz . In: This: A guest in old Leipzig . Hugendubel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88034-907-X , p. 88 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Müller : The house names of old Leipzig. From the 15th to the 20th century with references to sources and historical explanations . (= Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig 15). Association for the history of Leipzig , Leipzig 1931. DNB 365001511 , p. 29.
  2. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, pp. 68–71.
  3. ↑ Herbert Pilz, Helmut Vogel 1984, p. 28.
  4. ^ Mustafa Haikal , Peter Leonhardt: The New City Hall in Leipzig , Ed .: City of Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-893-3 , p. 41.
  5. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, p. 63.
  6. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, p. 65.
  7. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, p. 73 f.
  8. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, p. 78.
  9. ↑ Ulla Heise 1996, p. 89.
  10. ↑ Herbert Pilz, Helmut Vogel 1985, p. 26.
  11. ↑ Leipziger Ratskeller 1904, p. 80.
  12. ↑ Ulla Heise 1996, p. 88.
  13. ↑ Herbert Pilz, Helmut Vogel 1985, p. 27 f.
  14. ↑ Ratskeller in new splendor . In: Sächsisches Tageblatt of July 5, 1977, ZDB -ID 1138345-8 .
  15. ↑ Snacking is part of it ... "Master chef of the international class": Klaus Haustein, "Ratskeller" . In: Central German latest news from February 17, 1987, ZDB -ID 1386595-X .
  16. ↑ Thomas Müller: Ratskeller became a grave of millions for the city. Company is to be privatized in autumn . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from 13./14. February 1999.
  17. ↑ Leipzig Official Journal 9 (1999), No. 15, p. 10 and No. 20, p. 13, ZDB -ID 1124979-1 .
  18. ↑ Defective music system triggered a fire in the Ratskeller . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from December 31, 2013/1. January 2014, p. 13.
  19. ^ History. Historical data. In: Ratskeller Leipzig. Ratskeller der Stadt Leipzig GmbH, accessed on October 7, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Kerstin Decker: Cheers! The new “Lotteraner” beer brand tastes like more. Ratskeller inaugurates its own brewery with invited guests . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of March 28, 2017, p. 14. ( online at www.lvz.de under the title: With "Lotteraner", the Leipziger Ratskeller now only serves home-brewed beer , accessed on October 7, 2019)
  21. ^ Kerstin Decker: Ratskeller: Beer will be tasted in the coffee shop in the future . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from 5./6. October 2019, p. 19.
  22. ↑ rooms. In: Ratskeller Leipzig. Ratskeller der Stadt Leipzig GmbH, accessed on October 7, 2019 .

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