Wolfsschlucht (Koenigsberg)
The Wolfschlucht was a restaurant in Königsberg i. Pr.
Cultural center
The couleur-capable restaurant was in Mühlengrund under the French Church . It has been run by the widow Fischer, a Königsberg original, since 1814 . Her name was generally Aunt Fischer and she was addressed as “Madamchen”. She stuck to the traditional and served only brown beer from Löbenicht in lidded mugs . She didn't want to know anything about the Bavarian “cuckoo beer”. She also didn't have Flibb (brown beer with rum), Hoppelpoppel (egg grog) and Fleck. The Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention met there after pubs . Some morning pints lasted two days. In 1847, in March , magazines were laid out for the students of the Albertus University in Königsberg . The Corps Masovia contributed to the costs . Among the guests was Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, who later became Emperor Friedrich III. , "Himself a first-rate humorist".
Arthur Kittel provided a detailed description of the Wolfsschlucht :
“In the two-lined, low room there was a bar on the right between the door and the window, on the intermediate board she [the landlady] wrote long and short lines of chalk on the half and whole pieces of stuff (1 1 ⁄ 8 liters) served. The whole food supply was on the table to the left of the stove: younger and older pickled curd cheese, one and two-year-old "seals", small rye rolls sprinkled with salt and caraway seeds, called knüstchen, which were roughly the shape of a star with three rays, and sausages . There was a brazier next to it to warm them up and to light the fidibuses for the cigars. Tallow lights in brass chandeliers were used for evening lighting. There was a chair by the stove for the dark-clad landlady, who always wore a white cap. "
There were 12 pewter mugs and 100 year old engravings on the walls. The student Sydecum is said to have brought the game of Skat to Königsberg at a hundred-year-old wooden table . The landlady had an elderly daughter who ran the internal business and was never allowed to show herself in the dining room. An old, darkened oil print hung over the door. If someone asked: "Madamche, is that the picture of your Miss Daughter?", She replied: "Master, master, you are having fun, that is Coppernicus ."
Kniestchen, the well-known old Königsberg pastry, was only available in Wolfsschlucht in the end. The house was demolished in 1900. In the Roßgärter shopping mall built in 1883 there was again a “Wolfsschlucht”.
Wolfsschlucht in Samland
The actual Wolf Gorge was a charming valley on the north coast of Samland . Ferdinand Gregorovius describes it in his Idyllen vom Baltic Shore , "which (where nobody suspects them) can be found in the famous years of traveling in Italy , but only in the now rare first edition, Leipzig 1856." ( Carl von Lorck , 1947).
literature
- Hans Lippold: At Madam Fischer's in the old Wolfsschlucht . Ostpreußenblatt , August 8, 1964, p. 10
- Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by Rüdiger Döhler and Georg von Klitzing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eduard Loch , Hans Lippold: History of Masovia . Königsberg 1930/1933, p. 81
- ^ A b c Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary , 2nd edition. Munich 1976, ISBN 3761200927
- ↑ Schindelmeiser, Vol. 1, pp. 99, 154
- ↑ Otto Vigouroux
- ↑ a b Ostpreußenblatt , May 1, 1965, p. 13
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- ↑ digitized version