Thuringian Court (Leipzig)
The Thüringer Hof is a traditional restaurant at Burgstrasse 19 in Leipzig.
history
The history of the Thüringer Hof, now at number 19, is linked to properties 19 to 23. The corner house (later No. 19) was a free house on what was then Burggasse, which belonged to Dietrich von Buckensdorf in the 15th century and then to the Pflugk family and to the Böschischs in the 17th century.
The neighboring property no. 21, the "Landhof" formerly known as the court of the bailiffs of Schkeuditz, was in 1285 by Heinrich III. Bishop of Merseburg bought. In the 14th century it belonged to the family of Birkicht and was until 1446 owned by the electoral Vogts John Undervoit, 1466 appeared the first kind of gastronomic use as students burse on. Until 1515, an inn with a break was owned by the professor and chancellor of the diocese of Naumburg Heinrich Schmiedeberg. He was a friend of Martin Luther , as evidenced by an inheritance to him. From this it is concluded that Luther also visited the inn.
In 1838 the innkeeper Friedrich Pietzsch, who came from Thuringia, bought the house at Burgstrasse 21 and opened an inn here on October 1st, which he called "Thuringian Court", referring to his homeland. In 1858 Johann August Grimpe took over the inn. He had good contact with the students, for whom he was soon "Father Grimpe". His wife earned recognition in the city by feeding the poor. After Grimpe's death in 1871, his sons continued to run the business, from 1877 Georg Grimpe (1853–1927) alone.
In the "Wolfsschlucht"
"The Karzer"
The "House Chapel" department
In 1888 he acquired the two neighboring properties no.19 and no.23 and, after extensive renovations and rich design with architectural painting, artistic wall and ceiling paneling, ironwork and leaded glass windows, united numbers 21 and 23 to a popular large restaurant with 1200 seats, which was 17 Rooms were distributed. These had names like “Burgverlies”, “Karzer”, “Wolfsschlucht”, “Cantorei”, “Gute Stube”, “Grimpe-Stube” or “Hauskapelle”. Rooms were also named after Richard Wagner , Theodor Körner and Johann Sebastian Bach . Lorenz Clasen and Adolf Lehnert were involved in the artistic design . The latter also created a bronze bust of Georg Grimpes for his grave. The restaurant gained a good reputation beyond the borders of Leipzig and was mentioned in the same breath as the Munich Hofbräuhaus .
In 1911 the Würzburger Brauhaus AG (today Würzburger Hofbräu ) bought the restaurant and the property. Andreas Herrmann (1873–1934) became the new host. He also invested in the artistic design and received the legendary reputation of the house.
In 1930, under the direction of the architect Alfred Liebig (1878–1952), a major renovation began, including the corner house no. 19, which in the meantime had housed a wine shop. The Luther Hall, which was inaugurated in 1933, was built here on the ground floor. The room was shaped by various artistic depictions from the life and work of Martin Luther. The stained glass windows were made by Emil Block . The next innkeepers were the Börner family.
The ruins of the Thuringian court
Clearance in the area in 1949
At the Thüringer Hof 1979
During the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, the Thüringer Hof building complex was completely destroyed except for the brickwork in the ground floor zone. Only this was rebuilt in 1947/1948. A partial construction was carried out up to the first floor by 1949. The war and post-war years with supply problems, total destruction and partial reconstruction was largely managed by Johanna Börner, née Herrmann, alone. The hostility of a "bourgeois" company at that time must be added to this. The structural condition remained that way for the next 40 years.
From 1947 to 1971 the restaurant was operated as a semi-public company by the Sternburg brewery . After the nationalization in 1971, HO Gastronom took over the business until 1991. During this time there was a contract with the ambulance service in Leipzig, which got lunch there at a special price. As a result, there were often up to 5 ambulances in front of the door at lunchtime, which regularly caused confusion for those with no knowledge.
The Thuringian Court 2014
The new Luther Hall
The cooper figure on the corner of the house
The historic house sign in Sporergäßchen
In the 1990s, the entire Burgstrasse street was re-listed. Since the old building fabric could no longer be used, a five-story new building with historical references to the pre-war building was built on the corner plot No. 19 according to plans by the architect Alexander von Branca from 1993 to 1996, which houses the Thuringian Hof restaurant on the ground floor. The round archway entrance, window reveals made of Rochlitz porphyry , the historical house sign (now in Sporergäßchen) and the cooper figure on the corner of the house are reminiscent of the old Thuringian court. As in the past, the Luther Hall as the main dining room has columns and a ribbed vault. An inner courtyard that is covered as a winter garden is new.
The owner of the building complex, which also includes residential and commercial space, became GVG Munich in 1997. The tenant was Würzburger Hofbräu AG with a beer supply contract until 2011, which concluded a lease with “Thüringer Hof zu Leipzig GmbH”. This lease contract has been running directly with GVG Munich since 2006, and the beer has been coming from the Wernesgrüner brewery since 2012 .
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 74.
- Rudolf Neugebauer: The Thuringian Court. A traditional Leipzig student bar . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 44 (1999), pp. 13-18.
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 599–600.
- Heinz Peter Brogiato: Leipzig around 1900. Volume 1: The inner city in colored postcards from the archive of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig eV Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937146-69-0 , p. 39.
Web links
- Thuringian Court in the Leipzig Lexicon
- History on the restaurant website
- Website of the restaurant
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig (= writings of the association for the history of Leipzig. 15th volume). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 13.
- ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: City of Leipzig (Part II) Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , Verlag Meinhold, Dresden 1896, p. 446f
- ↑ Leipzig closer. No. 25, 2009, p. 9 digital ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
- ^ Bronze bust of Georg Grimpe
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. p. 600.
- ↑ Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. P. 74.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17.7 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24.1 ″ E