Sennhütte (Tübingen)

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Sennhütte with Sinner's mobile darkroom and special horse-drawn carriage, photo by Paul Sinner , around 1870
View of Österberg from Gartenstrasse , 1894. Above you can see the Rhenanenhaus on the left and the Sennhütte on the right.
“View from the dairy on Tübingen” over the Wielandshöhe, photo by Paul Sinner, 1875
Postcard "Greetings from Tübingen" from Paul Sinner, which uses his photographs: Sennhütte, Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, view of Tübingen from the Sennhütte and two couples in traditional costumes ( color lithograph , around 1891–1894)
The Sennhütte as an interim bar of the Corps Rhenania, photo by Julius Wilhelm Hornung , 1911
Exterior view of Sennhütte around 1911

The Sennhütte was a restaurant on the Österberg in Tübingen .

location

The Sennhütte was on the relatively flat foothills of the Österberg, facing the city, on which the Wielandshöhe viewpoint is also located. From today's point of view, it was in the southeast corner of the Corps Rhenania property , directly west of the liaison house of the Ulmia Landsmannschaft .

history

Paul Sinner

The Tübingen photographer Paul Sinner bought the property at Wielandshöhe at the end of the 1860s . He had a spacious garden house built on this property, which his father used as a retirement home. Sinner allegedly dried his wet photo plates on the property itself . In 1876, probably after his father's death, Sinner had the house converted and made it accessible to the public as an excursion restaurant. Sinner felt compelled to take this sideline because he mainly dealt with the branch of photography, which did not generate as big profits as portrait photography, namely with landscape and costume photography, and on the other hand had to support an expanding family. The inn was run by his wife, a butcher's daughter, Wilhelmine nee. Kienle (1839-1933). The Sennhütte was already a popular walking destination in the past and after the opening of the restaurant, which offered an excellent view of Tübingen, and - not least because of the commendable mentions in the "Tübinger Chronik" - it immediately became the most popular excursion restaurant in the city. That is why Sinner applied in 1878 to enlarge it significantly. In 1879, a hall with glazed walls and a viewing terrace above was added to the two-story house, from where guests have been able to enjoy a wonderful view since 1880. The restaurant was praised not only for the magnificent view, but also for the kitchen. Sinner's wife led them for a long time. Then the restaurant was leased to various innkeepers. All the time up to the time of the sale to Rhenania, a tourist book was kept which proves its popularity.

Rhenania

In the years 1885–1886 Rhenania built her corp house in the immediate vicinity of the Sennhütte. Since Rhenania wanted to expand later, and Paul Sinner could forego the continuation of the restaurant, which was then called Zur Sennhütte , for reasons of age , he sold it to Rhenania in February 1898 for 18,000 marks. The restaurant was initially leased and continued to be operated, as the two properties - that of the Rhenania and that of the Sennhütte - were separated from another property. After Rhenania bought this property on December 21, 1904, she was able to plan the expansion and renovation of the corp house. The lease for the Sennhütte was ended on March 31, 1905 and it was closed to the public forever. The building was initially empty until it was set up as a reading room for the Rhenanen in the summer semester of 1908.

From May 1911 to July 1912 - during the renovation and expansion of the corp house - the Sennhütte served as an interim bar. The active Rhenans also lived in their narrow rooms at this time. The glass hall served as a dining room and bar during this time, and the senior citizens' convention was held there. Next to it was a small coffee room. The kitchen was on the first floor. Despite the narrow space, the rooms are described as "quite comfortable", which one later fondly remembered. The caretaker was able to keep his apartment in the tower of the corp house during the whole renovation, "even if it was only accessible for him and his stout wife through a long ladder at times." - After that, the Sennhütte had no concrete use.

Between 1945 and 1956, the Sennhütte and the corp house of the Rhenania were confiscated by the French occupying forces - because of the active support of National Socialism by their (former) members. From 1945 to 1952, the corp house was the seat of the French governor for Württemberg-Hohenzollern General Pierre Koenig. When the Rhenania's house and property came back into the possession of the Corps in 1956, the Sennhütte had become dilapidated and the previously popular restaurant had to be demolished.

It wasn't until 2000 that the legendary cellar entrance of the Sennhütte was found by chance in the refuge of the inactive at the beginning of the 20th century.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The Sennhütte was not far from the city center, but at the time of construction it was completely outside the city: apart from the anatomy institute at the lower edge, the Österberg was still completely undeveloped and there was no paved path.
  2. ↑ When Sinner bought his house at Gartenstrasse 7 in 1867 , it was his first property.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Jonas: Tübingen on foot , p. 134.
  4. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia , p. 47.
  5. ^ Tübingen municipal administration in the last 50 years , Tübingen 1927, p. 94.
  6. ↑ Antje Nagel: Along the Neckar , p. 110.
  7. ↑ So z. B. in the guide by Eugen Nägele : Tübingen und seine Umgebung (3rd edition), Tübingen: Osiander 1884, p. 36.
  8. ↑ The tourist book was evaluated by Paul Löffler in 1924 (see literature ), but was then lost.
  9. ↑ Erich Bauer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , pp. 363, 429, 433, 455.
  10. ↑ Erich Bauer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , pp. 485, 493.
  11. ^ FX Frey-Donzdorf: The history of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen 1827–1927 , p. 266.
  12. ↑ Benigna Schönhagen: Tübingen as the state capital 1945–1952 - never was that much beginning . In: Karl Moersch; Reinhold Weber (ed.): The time after the war: Cities under reconstruction , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2008.
  13. ^ A b Wilhelm G. Neusel: Small castles, large villas , p. 189ff.

literature

  • Wilhelm G. Neusel (Ed.): Small castles, large villas. Portrait of Tübingen connection houses , Tübingen: Self-published by AKTV (ArbeitsKreis Tübingen connections), 2009, ISBN 978-3-924123-70-3 , pp. 189ff
  • Jürgen Jonas: Tübingen on foot. 13 district tours , Hamburg: VSA Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-87975-537-X
  • Antje Nagel [= Zacharias]: Along the Neckar . In: Udo Rauch (ed.): The Tübinger Stadtbild im Wandel , Stadt Tübingen, Kulturamt 1994, ISBN 3-910090-11-7 , pp. 63–114
  • Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia. Art, country and people in photos by the first Tübingen photographers and the photographer Paul Sinner (1838–1925) , Tübingen: Gebrüder Metz 1989, ISBN 3-921580-79-X
  • Erich Bauer : The Tübingen Rhenanen , Zeulenroda: Oberreuter 1936 (actually end of 1937)
  • Franz Xaver Frey-Donzdorf: The history of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen 1827-1927 , Tübingen: Laupp 1927
  • Paul Löffler : From the tourist book of the Sennhütte . In: "Tübinger Chronik" of October 18, November 5 and 11, 1924

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '11.8 "  N , 9 ° 3' 45.3"  E