Zill's tunnel

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Zills Tunnel (2017)

Zills Tunnel is a traditional restaurant, which has existed under this name since 1841, in Barfußgäßchen 9 / corner of Klostergasse in downtown Leipzig . The building is a historical monument.

Building description

The five-storey building, which has existed in this form since 1888, shows different forms of the German, in particular the Leipzig Renaissance . It has seven window axes after Barfußgasse and two after Klostergasse. The ground floor, which has been squared by painting, is rhythmically structured by arched openings for doors and windows. A corner bay and a bay window after the barefoot alley, each with adorned oriel towers, enliven the facade. Belt and window cornices provide rhythm. These and the window frames are made of light sandstone . The roof is supported by three wide dormers .

After the barefoot alley, two medallions of the wine god Bacchus and a Bacchante are directed on the ground floor . The wrought-iron pub sign hangs in the Klostergasse . An ornamental painting is attached between the window axes between the second and third floors.

  • Pub

  • Wine bar

  • Bay room

The guest rooms on the ground floor and first floor are called "Stuben" and, reminiscent of the history, are furnished in a rustic style. The pub on the ground floor has a barrel vault . Above is the wine bar , which is followed by the bay room . The monastery parlor and large parlor, which are primarily intended for closed events, are located on the ground floor and first floor of the adjoining building on Klostergasse, with the former having a separate entrance from Klostergasse. The upper floors contain guest rooms .

history

In the 18th century, there was a coffee house on the property of Zills Tunnel , which was initially called Weißleders Kaffeehaus and from 1769 Schrepfers Kaffeehaus . Johann Georg Schrepfer (1738–1774) had a license to play billiards and to serve coffee and tea. But he was also a con man and worked as a magician and ghost seer . In 1772 he founded a Masonic Lodge . He also held box meetings and seances in his coffee house.

  • Zills Tunnel 1885,
    before demolition

  • Floor plan of the new building from 1888

After Schrepfer's mysterious death , Heinrich Burckhardt ran a beer shop here from 1785 to 1838, for which the name Burckhardt's beer tunnel became established because of the vaulted ceiling in the inn . In 1841 Johann Gottfried Zill († 1868) acquired the restaurant, which was now named Zills Tunnel .

In 1877 the Plagwitz brewery CW Naumann , the third largest at the time in Leipzig, bought the Zills Tunnel property and continued to run the restaurant for ten years. In 1887 the dilapidated building was demolished and rebuilt within a year based on a design by Leipzig architects August Hermann Schmidt (1858–1942) and Arthur Johlige (1857–1937) for 996,000  marks while retaining the name it had introduced. The small size of the floor area was counteracted by the two bay windows on the upper floors. In addition, two rented rooms on the neighboring property in Klostergasse were breached through.

In the Second World War spared from destruction, the state-owned altered Trade Organization (HO) as the new operators during the communist era, the historical features of the house, including when she first floor the Bulgarian nationality restaurant Plovdiv instituted.

During the extensive restoration in 2000, the historical state was largely restored, taking into account today's technical needs and possibilities (elevator). This applies to both the picturesque design of the exterior facade and the interior furnishings, including the furnishings.

Guests

The hosts of Zills Tunnel ensured turnover and reputation in the 19th century by running round tables with prominent Leipzig citizens that had existed for many years . There were famous regulars for lawyers, writers and musicians, but also for craftsmen. Around 1850/60 Leipzig city councilors and city councilors sat at a round central table. It therefore seems plausible that the council feasts sometimes took place here after the first session of the year with the legendary “yellow soup”. The Tunnel over the Pleiße Association is also said to have met here.

Well-known personalities include the actor, theater director and stage poet Roderich Benedix (1811–1873), the writer and translator Adolf Böttger (1815–1870) and the composer, editor and music writer Heinrich Pfeil (1835–1899). The composer Viktor Nessler (1841–1890), whose opera Der Trompeter von Säckingen premiered in Leipzig and was the choir conductor at the Stadttheater and Kapellmeister at the Carola Theater , was also considered a regular guest in Zill's tunnel.

The composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800–1860), from 1820 singing teacher at the Leipzig Ratsfreischule and from 1840 at the Thomas School, was the leading figure in the Central German male choir . He invited his friends Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) and Robert Schumann (1810–1856) to Zill's tunnel. In 1844 he composed, based on the text by Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827), the folk song “Wandering is the miller's pleasure”. Its origin is associated with the mill weir in Oldisleben , but it must have been sung for the first time in Zill's tunnel. Another story connects Zöllner with Zill's tunnel. After boasting that he could set every text to music, he was asked to compose the menu, which he supposedly did by the next morning. And he actually has the title “The Menu”, which is still presented today.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 62 .
  • Bernd Weinkauf: Zills Tunnel. The return of a historic restaurant. In: Leipziger Blätter No. 38 (2001), pp. 38–40
  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 661 .
  • Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 123 .
  • Zill's tunnel. In: Leipzig and its buildings. Edited by the Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers, JM Gebhardt's Verlag, Leipzig 1892, p. 527

Web links

Commons : Zills Tunnel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig (ID 09298212)
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 62 .
  3. ↑ Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. P. 661
  4. ↑ a b Leipzig reading
  5. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon
  6. ↑ Bernd Weinkauf: Zills Tunnel. ... , p. 38
  7. ↑ On YouTube , the Amarcord and Gunther Emmerlich ensemble sing in the oriel room of Zill's tunnel, “The Menu” by Carl Friedrich Zöllner.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26.8 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 23.7"  E