Ring Café (Leipzig)

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Ring-Café Leipzig (2009)

The Ring-Café Leipzig is located in the middle of the Leipzig ring development . This dominates the southeast ring and includes the houses Roßplatz 1–14. The entire architectural ensemble is available as a document of the DDR architecture under monument protection . Its central location directly on the City-Ring allows it to be linked to the center of Leipzig.

construction

The foundation stone for the ring development and thus also for the ring café was laid on August 29, 1953 by Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973). A draft from the design office for building construction in Leipzig, under the direction of architect Rudolf Rohrer (1900–1968), was implemented. The construction company was VEB Bau-Union Leipzig.

Structure and equipment

  • Guest room (1956)

  • Stairs (1956)

  • Mocha Bar (1956)

The Ring Café opened on January 13, 1956. At that time it was the largest café in the GDR with 540 seats and consisted of four parts: the day café and the mocha parlor on the ground floor and the concert café with a separate bar on the first floor. Furthermore, there was a spacious patio in front of the day café below and a large terrace in front of the concert café above. All rooms were furnished with fine materials and created the impression of a dignified house, which should, however, be accessible to everyone. The technical equipment fully met the requirements of the 1950s; For example, there was an automatically opening door from the waiter's corridor to the guest room, but also automatic cooling tables and cabinets.

use

The guests were also offered sophisticated musical entertainment, including a. on the Blüthner grand piano . Well-known events in the Ring-Café were the Leipziger Moderevuen, which were characterized by dancing fashion shows . There were also underwear fashion shows, tea dances and carnival balls . Every major Leipzig company held company celebrations in the Ring Café; The women's day celebrations were also quite “lively”.

In the 1990s and early 2000s there were several attempts to revive the Ringcafé in its old glory.

A Free Evangelical Congregation has been using parts of the Ring Café for its events since 2003 .

Since 2017, a “Regeriade” has been taking place in May in the Ring-Café, organized by the former Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller (* 1955) and dedicated to the composer Max Reger (1873–1916), who died near today's Ring-Café .

literature

  • Brigitte Lindert, Matthias Schulz: "... the crab cocktail was best ...". Stories and history for the 55th birthday of the Leipzig Ringcafé . KBB eV, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033635-5 .
  • Leipzig: Residential building on the Roßplatz. In: German architecture. Vol. 2, No. 6, 1953, ISSN  0011-9865 , p. 300.
  • Horst Riedel (Red .: Thomas Nabert ): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 502.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument protection object ID 09290549
  2. ^ A b c Ralf Koch: Leipzig and Dresden. Cities of reconstruction in Saxony. Urban planning, architecture, architects 1945–1955. Leipzig 1999 (Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1999).
  3. ↑ Horst Riedel (editor: Thomas Nabert ): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 502.
  4. ^ Rudolf Rohrer: The new buildings at Roßplatz in Leipzig. In: German architecture. Vol. 4, No. 3, 1955, pp. 100-107.
  5. ^ Rudolf Rohrer: Ring-Café in Leipzig. In: German architecture. Vol. 5, No. 12, 1956, pp. 513-515.
  6. ↑ Lindert, Schulz: "... the cancer cocktail was best ...". 2011, passim.
  7. ↑ Ring Café. FeG Leipzig, accessed on January 7, 2015 .
  8. ↑ I. Rege Riade. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 19, 2018 ; accessed on March 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Regeriade 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Ring Cafe  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 49.6 ″  E