Red head wine bar

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Red head wine bar

The former Rote Kopf wine tavern in the old town of Mainz is a listed property. It is located in the Rotekopfgasse 2-6 monument zone , a lane between the Fischtor and Heilig-Geist-Spital near the city wall. The original property had its entrance on the corner of Milanogasse and Fischergasse.

Building history

The houses in this area were built after the great fire of 1561. On the Sweden map of Mainz the house was named "Zum Klotter" in 1625. At that time the name “Zum Rote Kopf” was the name of a hostel on the same street. The name was later used for a brewery on the same street at the corner of Mailandsgasse. In the place of the current building there was initially a half-timbered house, which was remodeled in baroque style in 1730 and given a complete stone facade. The owners at the time did not want to be inferior to the plastered buildings of the nobility. The facade was decorated with a relief sculpture depicting the " Coronation of Mary " from 1730. This plastic was stolen in 1975 and has not been replaced.

During the French occupation after the First World War, the municipal trucking office rented rooms on the ground floor for use as a horse stable. Despite the considerable destruction in Mainz during World War II , the plastered building has largely been preserved. It stood empty until it was rebuilt and reconstructed in 1982 and fell into disrepair over time. Inside the house, the vaulted cellar from the 16th century is part of the original structure.

Because the original building was no longer used as a restaurant after the reconstruction, an inn was built in 1970 in a newly built property in Rote-Kopf-Gasse to prolong the tradition with the old name. This was operated as the "Red Head Wine Bar" until 2006 by "Edda" (Trittruf), a "Mainz Original". From then on, the restaurant was taken over by Gerald Reisert, who initially worked there as a cook until he acted as a tenant himself.

The Mainz winemaker Marcus Paul Landenberger has taken over the wine tavern since March 2018 and is continuing it today in the original.

building

The new building is built on the eaves on a rectangular floor plan and has a gable roof in a west-east direction. It consists of three full floors; the attic, which lies under the gable roof , is illuminated via gable windows. The house entrance with round-arched sandstone garments and skylight is on the western gable side and, like the entire facade, is entwined with wild vines. All of the rectangular windows in the house have no shutters. The lattice windows on the ground floor are white, on the upper floors they are gray, and the four closely spaced window axes are symmetrically structured. The murals inside the wine tavern show historical photographs of the property, which hang next to prints by the Mainz landscape painter Alfred Mumbächer .

The red head in literature

Carl Zuckmayer erected a memorial to the Red Head in a court scene in his story Die Fastnachtsbeichte . Zuckmayer has Clemens, one of the protagonists of the story, report on his search for Ferdinand, his half-brother, who was murdered in front of the Mainz Cathedral.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Lehr: From the pear tree to the mountains; Historic inns in Mainz - Meenzer Lebe - Meenzer Leit , Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, 2008, ISBN 3878542143
  2. ↑ Red head : tourists and locals at one table in: Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung from August 30, 2011
  3. ↑ WeinEssenTV: Weinstube Rote Kopf. June 4, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: New tenant in the "Red Head": Marcus Landenberger takes over the Mainz wine bar . ( Allgemeine-zeitung.de [accessed on July 25, 2018]).
  5. ↑ http://www.rotekopf.de/presse.html (link not available)
  6. ^ Carl Zuckmayer: The carnival confession. Story, Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-596-15010-8

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 33.3 ″  E