Spandauer Bock
The Spandauer Bock was an excursion restaurant with a brewery, the Spandauer Berg Brewery in the Westend district in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin . The restaurant located at the confluence of Reichsstraße with Spandauer Damm consisted of two parts separated by Spandauer Damm, the actual Bock south of Spandauer Damm and the restaurant at the brewery north of Spandauer Damm, which is popularly named after the female counterpart to Bock Zibbe ( North German for 'mother sheep') baptized.
history
In 1840 the Bavarian beer brewer Conrad Bechmann, who owned a brewery in Spandau , bought the site, which is now in the corner between Spandauer Damm and Reichsstraße, and opened a small bar there. After the dark bock beer served there in spring , the restaurant was named Spandauer Bock . It burned down in March 1875, but was rebuilt that same summer. In 1854, Bechmann moved his brewery from Spandau to the Spandauer Berg site on the opposite side of the Spandauer Damm, which from then on was called the Spandauer Berg Brewery and had its own bar. The brewery was taken over by the Schultheiss brewery in 1917 . The two excursion restaurants were closed at the end of the 1930s. The buildings were largely destroyed in World War II and not rebuilt.
Bock and Zibbe
The two garden bars offered up to 6000 table places, which were not enough on warm spring weekends. Some families then camped in the surrounding area in the great outdoors. Both restaurants addressed a different audience. While the simple public enjoyed themselves at the Bock on the south side, the Zibbe met more affluent groups who could afford the diverse conversations in the restaurant and on the surrounding outdoor area. Contemporaries praised the beautiful panoramic view from the Zibbe open-air site on the Spandauer Spitze of the Spree valley . An artificial alpine panorama with water features and alpine glow in the evening were highlights for an audience, few of whom had seen the Alps with their own eyes. The imposing hall building with a floor area of 40 × 20 meters had an orchestral niche on the west side and a 5 × 10 meter colossal painting on the opposite side depicting Bacchus drinking beer on a barrel drawn by goats. Since the location was generally known as the Spandauer Bock, even contemporaries had difficulties with the assignment of the smaller, older Bock and the larger, newer Zibbe.
traffic
For most of its existence, the Spandauer Bock benefited from good transport connections for the time, which at times enabled crowds of Berlin and Charlottenburg excursionists to make their way to the Spandauer Bock. First, gate cars drove out from the Brandenburg Gate to the Spandauer Bock. The first horse tram in Germany in 1865 had its western terminus at today's corner of Spandauer Damm and Sophie-Charlotten-Straße, from where a half-hour walk over the Spandauer Berg led to the Spandauer Bock. On November 1, 1871, the Westend-Gesellschaft opened a connection line between the horse station and Kastanienallee, which was continued in 1879 to the Spandauer Bock. For the line that climbed steeply up the Spandauer Berg to Westend, you had to change at the horse station to one-story wagons drawn by two horses. The unimportant branch line was the first tram line in Germany to be electrified with an overhead line on a trial basis in 1882 when Werner Siemens set up a test operation for an electric tram , which was terminated the following year. From the Spandau side, the tram reached the Spandauer Bock on July 1, 1906, but in the valley. To change to the Charlottenburg line, passengers had to go up a ramp on the Spandauer Berg. The connection of the two lines was not created until 1917 with a terrain adjustment. When the subway with the stations Neu-Westend (1922) and Ruhleben (1929) reached the Spandauer Bock, the best times were already over.
The Spandauer Bock in literature
The contemporary travel literature often did not give the Spandauer Bock good marks. For the middle-class authors, the rustic entertainment for the proletarian audience in the buck on the south side was a horror. In the same tenor, Julius Stinde dedicates a chapter in his novel The Buchholz Family to a family outing to the Spandauer Bock. Even Theodor Fontane expressed repeatedly negative to the amusements at Spandau Bock. In a letter in 1892 he mentions the Spandauer Bock brewery with Tingeltangel and Good Friday rattle , referring to the fact that it was traditionally busy on Good Friday .
The Spandauer Bock after the Second World War
The remains of the destroyed buildings were removed in 1957. The preserved basement buildings of the brewery were used by the Bajon garden center as sales rooms from 1950 until the bankruptcy in 2004 . On the south side, east of Reichsstrasse and north of Spandauer Damm, you can still see the boundary wall to the lower street and access stairs to the Bock site, on which two high-rise buildings originally built for the British occupation power stand. On the grounds of the Zibbe, a colony of arbors bears the name Spandauer Bock and there is now a pub of the same name in Spandau's old town .
literature
- Willy Bark: Chronicle of Alt-Westend. Mittler, Berlin 1937 (modified reprint: Edition der Divan, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-925683-00-3 ).
- Stephan Brandt: Berlin-Westend. Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-458-6 .
- Fritz Schaletzke: History about the Spandauer Bock. Manuscript, 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandt 2009, p. 19.
- ↑ This is how Kießling's hiking book confused for the Mark Brandenburg: Nearer surroundings of Berlin in its 1892 edition Zibbe and Bock, but corrected the information for the 1895 edition.
- ↑ Schaletzke, 1984, p. 11.
- ↑ On the box. In: Julius Stinde: The Buchholz family. 1884.
- ^ Theodor Fontane : From my colorful life. Hanser 1998, ISBN 3-446-19104-6 , p. 266.
- ↑ Ohmann's Westend blog from January 25, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '23.4 " N , 13 ° 15' 11.1" E