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Schipka Pass and Scharka Valley
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The Schipka Pass (Czech Zlatnice or Šipkapas ) was an inn near Prague . Karl Hans Strobl mentioned it in his novel Der Schipkapass ( The Flamanders of Prague ).

history

A German named Milde had a flourishing handicraft business on the Lesser Town in Prague . One of his sons became a forester in the Leitmeritz district . The other - Oskar or Moritz - graduated from the agricultural school in Liebwerd and became the manager of a noble estate near Leitmeritz . He married Anna Gärtner , the daughter of the innkeeper in Triebsch , who was born in 1853 . Father Milde bought him a farm in the valley of the "Silent Scharka" near Alt Dejwitz, which is famous for its natural beauty . During the holidays, many Prague students from the Leitmeritz area came to Anna's father's inn. They became friends with Oskar Milde. When they visited him on his farm, they bought the beer they needed in the valley from a Czech innkeeper. It was obvious that Oskar applied for the restaurant license. It is not known exactly when the restaurant was opened, probably in 1876. Guests came in droves, mostly Prague students, families on Sundays and sometimes professors.

Derivation of the name

Anna and Oskar Milde with guests

In the Russo-Ottoman War , the Czechs were entirely on the side of the Slavic peoples. The Germans , too, were initially opposed to their old Ottoman opponents; but when the discipline and bravery of the Turkish troops in the battle of Shipka Pass became known, the sympathies of the Prague Germans gradually switched to the Turks . Three German medical students at Karl Ferdinand University were as divided as the Prague population . In August 1877 they had stopped at the inn over the Scharka in the northwest of the capital. The gigantic landlord wore a fez that he had taken from a boozer the day before . A dispute between Russians and Turks broke out on Fez. With his beard and warlike appearance, the landlord was soon compared to the general Osman Nuri Pascha . After a few beers, the inn became the “Schipkapass” and the surrounding area became the “Balkan” . In fact, the location of the inn was reminiscent of a mountain pass . The landlord, Oskar Milde, was nicknamed Osman Pascha ; his wife was called Sulaika , the cook Zoraide and the Jewish waiter Sigmund Pick was nicknamed Abraham . The three students decided to introduce the bar to the Prague German student body. Soon after the opening, the Schipka Pass became their beer state .

Tourist tax

Postcard (1900)

With mock rudeness and gruff humor, "Osman" shrank from nothing with the students. He said goodbye to everyone, while “Sulaika” also greeted regulars. Her repartee was always apt, often coarse, but never hurtful. Her unique sense of humor never left her.

From the tables outside, on the open veranda of the Schipka pass, one had a very nice view of the Scharka valley. In The Flamanders of Prague Strobl describes a sunset in the "Balkans":

“Above the heights of the Balkans, a network of gold threads spanned a red background. Behind the rays of light the sky was like moiré, slightly flamed and wavy, and the whole miracle did not remain calm for a moment, and deeper and deeper the background plunged into a red rising from the ridge, while the last rays shortened and powerless into the twilight of the Tales fell. When the initially light and floating clouds turned a heavy and burdensome violet, while the background changed to sulfur yellow, Osman said in his rough beer voice: 'Sunset ex est.' He said it as if he had been the organizer of this show. "

- Karl Hans Strobl

According to Strobel, Milde used to charge five cruisers as a tourist tax for viewing the sunset. He asked just as much from students who came to the Schipka Pass for the first time and wanted to kiss the (probably very attractive) cook "Zoraide". The money went into the building fund, with which "Osman" could pay for all renovations .

Furnishing

The Milde couple

The ever-popular Milde couple brought enormous popularity to the secluded and rustic restaurant. The regular guests were allowed to sit at the kitchen table. The other guests sat at the four tables in the “Eagle Hall” behind the kitchen. The black double-headed eagle on the ceiling indicated that Osman was allowed to sell the tobacco control's products . Separated by a pane of glass door, next to the kitchen was the taproom, the “laboratory”. Opposite the private rooms was the hall of mirrors, in which a small pocket mirror adorned the large wall. Yellowed family pictures, compasses and lettering adorned the ancestral hall. The knight's hall owes its name to a Bosnian handshare (without a blade) and a painted knight. The floors and stairs were tiled. The furniture included wooden tables, garden chairs, bales of straw and a piano. There was often dancing.

“Only those who had advanced to higher levels of alcoholic transcendence could recognize the purpose of the rooms and facilities. Seen soberly, it was a desolate village inn. "

- Franz Böhm (1927)

Sale and Expiry

Ruin of the inn (2017)

Oskar Milde choked to death on a chicken bone on September 4, 1910. He was buried in the cemetery of St. Matthias Church in Dejwitz. A plaque with his image and an inscription were placed on the tombstone:

OSKAR MILDE, RESTAURANT AND REAL ESTATE OWNER, RESTES HERE

The restaurant was continued by Anna Milde and her son Moritz. In 1913 there was a big flower festival with the traditional celebration of the solstice . In the First World War Moritz Milde fell in Serbia.

In 1921 the restaurant was sold to a Czech builder. Anna Milde lived with her daughter in Austria for a few years. She died in May 1924 in a hospital in Klosterneuburg . In June 1946, Oskar Milde's remains were removed from the abandoned grave and placed in a jute sack.

In 1989 the completed Schipka pass was still standing. The building has now fallen into disrepair. The rubble can be found on the edge of a garage.

literature

  • K [arl]. Fischer: "Alte Kameele" of the German student body in Prague , in: Burschenschaftliche Blätter 20 / 9-10 (1906), pp. 230-231.
  • Eugen Hellsberg: Old Prague student bars . Contributions to Austrian student history, Vol. 14 (1987), pp. 18-28.
  • Egon Erwin Kisch : The Osman died . Bohemia , September 5, 1910, noon edition, ZDB -ID 820916-9 , p. 2 f.
  • Henning Lenthe: Student and fraternity life in Prague , in: Ders .: Customs of the fraternity. Historical development of student associations and their customs , vol. 2, part 2, Munich 1998, pp. 293–399, here 377–383.
  • Christian Oppermann: The Flamanders of Prague at the Schipka Pass . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 32 (1987), ISSN  0420-8870 , pp. 165-181.
  • Adolf Siegl : "Abraham" and "Osman" - two originals of the Prague German student body . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 28 (1983), pp. 159-163.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in Bohemia of May 10, 1906, p. 6.
  2. ^ Obituary for Oskar Milde, in the Prager Tagblatt
  3. ↑ a b c d Raimund Lang : The Schipka Pass . GDS weekend "Prague", supplement 5, 4. – 6. April 2008
  4. ^ A b Adolf Siegl: "Abraham" and "Osman" - two originals of the Prague German student body . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 28 (1983), p. 166.
  5. ^ Report in: Reichenberger Zeitung of July 21, 1921, p. 6.
  6. ↑ picture from 1989
  7. ↑ Address: Zlatnice (Am Goldberg) 56/5, Prague 6

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mild first name is unclear: "Oskar" from Adolf Siegl , the most important connoisseur of Prague student history; “Moritz” with Christian Oppermann , a member of the Prague fraternity Arminia.
  2. ↑ Flamänder is derived from the Czech flamovat = to celebrate and the German-Czech jargon, in which Flamänder means loiter.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 5 ″  E