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The Schöne restaurant in the Filmhaus ( Vienna 7 , Siebensterngasse 19) was a meeting place for national and international celebrities from music, film and politics from its foundation to the renovation of the interior in 1992. On the one hand, the “Tuesday Society”, which met in the Schöne from 1933 to 1945 and formed one of the secret resistance groups against National Socialist politics , is historically significant . On the other hand, from 1949 to 1990 the house was home to the Austria Wochenschau , which used the beautiful garden room as a cinema. Numerous Viennese daily newspapers from 1920 to 1930 also report that a new café culture emerged with Schöner. The Schöne restaurant was next to the Café Carlton in Vienna I. the central office of the Schöner companies.
location
The Schöne restaurant no longer exists since 1992. It was located in the now unchanged former suburban house with a baroque facade in Vienna's new building at Siebensterngasse 19 on Spittelberg . While the baroque facade (renovated in 1965) has largely been preserved in its original state, all interior rooms, with the exception of the private apartments on the first floor of the house, were completely rebuilt from 1990 onwards.
history
According to a chronicle, there was from 1632 at the place of today's Siebensterngasse 13-19 near the then Spitalberg (today Spittelberg ) a wine house or an inn, which in 1683 by the Ottoman siege troops , as well as the nearby St. Ulrich, plundered and was burned down. The command posts of the siege troops were located around the site of today's houses at Siebensterngasse 13 to 19.
From around the year 1700 a building boom followed. In place of the Einkehrgasthaus, the baroque suburban town houses "Zur green pillar" and the house "Zur Goldenen Krone" were built at today's addresses 17 and 19. The inn on the ground floor, which had existed since 1632, was named the "Golden Crown" in 1873, after Andreas and Juliana Schöner took over the inn. In 1890, the family Beautiful owner of the house Siebensterngasse 19th 1923 bought Lina Beautiful house number 17, which under today was listed ( list entry is).
Established in 1903
In 1903 the company was transferred to Andreas Carl Schöner. After the First World War, Andreas Carl and his wife Caroline founded the beautiful company with the Grand Café Casa Piccola, in which their son Josef Schöner took a stake from 1939 . However, Josef Schöner made a career as an Austrian diplomat in the Leopold Figl government . In addition to the headquarters, numerous cafés and restaurants followed in Vienna from 1918. In the daily newspapers from 1920 it could be read that the Schöner family re-shaped the Viennese coffeehouse culture with the Café Casa Piccola , the Café Carlton , the Café Heinrichhof and the Café Fenstergucker, as well as with their leases, especially the Krieau dairy .
Further owners from 1945
The head office in Siebensterngasse was a military restaurant for the US Army from 1945 to 1949. After the clearance by the US military in 1949, the Schöner was leased to a new operator from 1950. The Sperka family ran the restaurant in the Filmhaus until 1980.
After the Sperka family, Herbert Hansy took over the beautiful in the film house. Around 1990 a new takeover followed and the interior was converted into the “Siebensternbräu”, which opened on July 22, 1992, in which Peter Zgonc was also involved. Since then, the new owner's beer brewery has been located in the former garden room of the Schöner restaurant. In addition to the garden, the facade of house number 19 has been preserved in the style of the Wilhelminian era . Inside, the over 100-year-old inn was adapted to the requirements of a catering business of the 21st century and converted into a beer brewery.
Interior design and style
The six guest rooms of the restaurant were kept in the turn of the century style in the colors red, white and pink until 1990. Ceilings and walls were decorated with classic lampshades and chandeliers or candlesticks. The wooden floors in the guest rooms were usually covered with red carpets and rugs. The "Petrus Corner" became famous, the picture of which is in circulation on a postcard from 1932. There was a mirror room and on the first floor of the rear building there was the “king room” in pink. There were two Biedermeier-style rooms for overnight stays . A guest room next to the "King's Room" was called the "Windsor Room". A special feature of the house was the so-called "beautiful garden" with the garden hall. The hall, which can hold 100 to 200 guests, was also used as a cinema until 1990 . The garden, advertised as the “Beautiful Garden” in 1910, still exists today in its original form.
According to Milan Dubrović, Eduard VII. , Who was on a state visit to Vienna in 1903 and who also came to Vienna privately in 1904 and for a cure in Marienbad, was among the guests of the Schöner . The “Little Chronicle” of the house also mentions the Viennese actor Alexander Girardi and the Austrian film pioneer Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky as guests. A special showpiece in the bar of the Schöner was the collection of autograph cards from all actors from famous Viennese films such as Hans Moser , the Hörbigers or Orson Welles , who lived in the film The Third Man in the Stiftgasse opposite the Stiftskaserne. Nothing is known today about the whereabouts of the autograph collection.
time of the nationalsocialism
Not only kings like Eduard VII. Were guests at the Schöner, but also Engelbert Dollfuss , Kurt Schuschnigg or Baldur von Schirach , as the Schöne family showed itself to the outside world as diplomatic and business-minded. Real politics was also pursued in the Schöne restaurant. From 1900 onwards, his father Andreas was a district councilor in Vienna-Neubau for ten years until his son Josef Schöner started a career in politics in 1933; In 1953 he was appointed ambassador to negotiate the Austrian State Treaty.
The “Tuesday Society” explains itself through the diary of Josef Schöner and a guest at the Schöner restaurant, Eduard Heinl , former Minister of Commerce and member of the first government of Leopold Figl . Eduard Heinl belonged to the “Tuesday Society” until his arrest by the Gestapo shortly before 1945. In 1948, Heinl described in one of his books ( Over Half a Century of Time and Economy ) the atmosphere at Frau Schöner’s home as a memory that he remembered after his release on April 9, 1945 on his way through what was then known as the “Street of July Fighters ”. returned. On the way through Siebensterngasse, Heinl stood before his eyes when the Gasthaus Schöner was the center of a large community of political functionaries persecuted by the National Socialists. So you could find yourself inconspicuously at Frau Schöner’s inn, where you could meet friends and like-minded people and learn about the fate of others. Eduard Heinl writes in his book: “I stopped by and was not disappointed ... The old atmosphere of resistance hit the visitor ... they were quickly informed about the exact state of the political and military situation ... I went with plenty of body and soul in my flat…".
literature
- Josef Schöner: Vienna Diary 1944/1945 . Edited by Eva-Marie Csaky. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1992, ISBN 3-205-05531-4
- Eduard Heinl: Over half a century of time and economy . Wilhelm Braumüller, University Publishing House Vienna IX
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Schöner: Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945 .
- ^ Daniela Kirchner (Ed.): Film and Television Collections in Europe - The MAP-TV Guide . Routledge, New York 1995, ISBN 0-415-13678-4 , pp. 8 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on May 10, 2020]).
- ^ Heinz Jankowsky, former director of the district museum of the new building: Archive pictures of the new building . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt.
- ↑ Elfriede Faber: New building, history of the 7th district of Vienna . Ed .: Felix Czeike.
- ^ J. Wolfgang Salzberg (ed.): House cadastre of the federal capital Vienna . tape III. . Moritz Perles, 1929.
- ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of April 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , status: January 18, 2018.
- ↑ Major shake Hofer: Danzer's Army newspaper . Ed .: Dr Egon Lauppert. 13th year edition. Austrian Officers Association, Vienna I, Schwarzenbergplatz 1 February 19, 1932, p. 6 .
- ↑ Josef Schöner: Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945 . Ed .: Eva-Marie Csaky. Böhlau, Vienna et al., Vienna 1992.
- ↑ Gerlach & Wiedling (eds.): Viennese municipal calendar and municipal yearbook . 38th year. Paul Gerin, Vienna II, Circusgasse 13 1900.
- ^ Eduard Heinl: Over half a century of time and economy. Wilhelm Braumüller publishing house, Vienna 1948