Windmühlstrasse 1
The building at Windmühlstrasse 1 (corner of Untermainkai above the Nice bank ) in Frankfurt's train station district used to be the seat of the culinary art museum and is now a listed building .
Culinary art museum
On September 2, 1896, Matthaeus Carl Banzer (1867–1945) founded the International Association of Chefs in Frankfurt am Main (IVdK). From October 12 to 22, 1900, the latter organized the First International Culinary Art Exhibition (IKA) at Messe Frankfurt am Main together with the Frankfurter Gastwirteverein and the Association for the Promotion of Tourism . The patron was Princess Margarethe of Prussia.
On March 5, 1908, the foundation stone for the culinary art museum was laid at Windmühlstrasse 1 in Frankfurt am Main. Architects were Vietze & Helfrich . The museum opened on January 19, 1909. In 1920 a teaching kitchen and a lecture hall for specialist lectures and a research institute for culinary and kitchen-related innovations were set up. From October 11th to 14th, 1928, the World Association of Chefs was founded under Honorary President Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935). On May 2, 1933, the International Association of Chefs was incorporated into the German Labor Front as part of the Gleichschaltung . In 1937 the culinary art museum at Windmühlstrasse 1 was closed and stored in the manor house of the Sommerhoffpark , where the entire collection was probably destroyed in a bomb attack. During a heavy bombing raid on Frankfurt on September 12, 1942 , the building in Windmühlstrasse suffered a roof fire.
Post war history
In 1949 the house at Windmühlstrasse 1 was sold to Anton Krätz , who set up the Hotel der Kochkunst there. On November 13, 1984 the house was listed as a historical monument.
On May 18, 1988, the Association for the Promotion of Table Culture was founded (today after the renaming: Deutsche Tafelkultur eV ), which has set itself the goal of reopening the museum. This new museum opened as the German Museum for Culinary Art and Table Culture on November 25, 2015 in a building between the streets Zeil and Holzgraben.
In 1989 Mrs. Marianne van Mastrigt bought the house on Windmühlstrasse. In the same year, a memorial plaque was attached to the house, reminding of the culinary art museum.
literature
- Walter Schwarz: The culinary art museum in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7829-0387-0 .
Web links
- History of the house on Tafelkultur.com
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Duplication In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 13.6 ″ E