Wilhelm J. Sluka
| Wilhelm J. Sluka Nfg. GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1891 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | Coffee pastry shop |
| Website | www.Sluka.at |
Wilhelm J. Sluka is a pastry shop and café in Vienna and a former supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court . It is located at Rathausplatz 8 (formerly Reichsratsstraße 13) in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . In 2017 a second location was opened on Kärntner Strasse , also in the 1st district of Vienna.
history
The confectionery was founded in 1891 by Wilhelm Josef Sluka and his wife Josefine.
The pastry shop under the Wilhelminian era arcades is in close proximity to important Ringstrasse buildings. Guests of the highest society frequented here, including Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , the nobility, members of the neighboring parliament and imperial ministers, but also town hall officials and councilors, actors and employees of the Hofburgtheater and citizens.
Wilhelm Josef Sluka (1861–1932) was a pioneer of the Viennese confectionery trade, who built up the company together with his wife Josefine (1864–1954). “The Sluka” became known through in-house creations such as the “Sluka-Torte” (chocolate biscuit, almond wine cream coated with milk dunk), “Nut Suffler” or “Flora Krapfler”, which are still made according to the original recipe. His pastry shop quickly became successful.
Wilhelm Josef Sluka was Austria's first confectioner to use small machines as a work aid in the bakery. He won a gold medal at the 2nd International Culinary Art Exhibition in 1898. On December 20, 1899, he submitted his request for the title of imperial court purveyor to the Obersthofmeisteramt, which was awarded to him a year later on December 16, 1900.
Wilhelm J. Sluka died childless. After the Slukas, Alexander and Anna Jeszenitz became the successors. Jeszenitz had his apprenticeship in the zwieback confectionery in the 1st district and gained practice at Café Gerbeaud , also a former supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court, in Budapest. Under his leadership, the old premises were renovated and the production process modernized.
After the Jeszenitz, the Beranek family became owners in 1960. After a three-week renovation, the pastry shop was reopened on August 20, 1960. The lighting fixtures and stucco work from the early days were left. Susanne and Otto Beranek had a refrigerated display case installed in the sales counter, and in 1975 the renovation was carried out again and upholstered benches were furnished with Viennese Thonet coffee house chairs. In 2000 the Sluka received the "Golden Coffee Bean" from Gault-Millau as the best Viennese coffee and confectionery. The Sluka confectionery has been part of the List Hospitality Group since 2014 .
Sluka as an institution
During the time of the monarchy, Empress Elisabeth, the nobility, officials and also commoners came to the coffee-confectionery here. After the monarchy, important guests continued to come, such as Federal President Karl Renner, Kurt Waldheim, Federal Chancellor and politicians such as Alfons Gorbach and Wolfgang Schüssel, as well as Viennese mayors such as Theodor Körner and Michael Häupl, many of whom signed the guest book.
But the pastry shop also had its influence in art and literature. The writer Thomas Bernhard mentions the pastry shop in the last act of his sensational play Heldenplatz ; he himself was a frequent guest there.
An anecdote tells of a young drawing teacher at the beginning of the 20th century in a private school on Wallnerstrasse in Währing. After this narration, the teacher asked his young students to draw a story they had experienced themselves. A girl then drew her visit to the Sluka pastry shop, where her father rewarded her with a visit for good grades. The girl drew her impressions of the sweets such as the hazelnut donuts and the waitresses with the white bonnets. The teacher found the drawing very successful, but the school principal lost his composure and dismissed the young teacher. This young man then only devoted himself to art, his name was Oskar Kokoschka .
Products
On offer are the Slukatorte, Dobostorte , Maria-Theresia-Torte (whose recipe is secret) and other cakes, nut sufflers or Flora-Krapfler, dozens of petit fours , pastries , gluten- and lactose-free desserts and hot dishes from the kitchen.
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- Ingrid Haslinger, Erika Patka, Marie-Luise Jesch: The sweet luxury. The Hofzuckerbäckerei and the former kuk Hofzuckerbäcker Demel, Gerbeaud, Gerstner, Heiner, Rumpelmayer, Sluka. An exhibition by the Looshaus culture group. Agent's work Geyer + Reisser, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-9500302-4-7 .
- János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 22-27.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roland Mischke: The Kaiser was a customer here. Handelsblatt, July 12, 2003, accessed on February 4, 2009 (Austria's monarchy abdicated in 1919, but there are still exclusive shops in Vienna that were once imperial and royal purveyors. Today they fight against “brand madness” with customization and quality. ).
- ↑ János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK court suppliers of Vienna . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . P. 23.
- ^ Goldene Kaffeebohne 2000. (No longer available online.) Jacobs, 2000, archived from the original on September 3, 2007 ; Retrieved December 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Meeting point for the artists. (No longer available online.) Sluka Confectionery, December 22, 2009, archived from the original on December 13, 2009 ; Retrieved December 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK court suppliers of Vienna . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 24-25.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 33.8 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 27.9 ″ E