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“Be silent, don't chat…” - beginning of the coffee cantata by J. S. Bach (autograph) written for a concert in the Zimmermann's coffee house
Oertel's house with the Zimmermann's coffee house, from an engraving by Johann George Schreiber (1720)
Katharinenstrasse 1905, on the right the Oertelsche Haus

The Zimmermannsche Kaffeehaus , contemporary Zimmermannisches Caffe-Hauß , more rarely Café Zimmermann , was a café in Leipzig .

history

The Zimmermannsche coffee house was located in the baroque town house (architect Christian Döring ) built in 1717 by Christian Schellhafer, owner of a tavern on the market , which was called Oertelsches Haus from 1727. The house was at 14 Katharinenstrasse, at the corner of Böttchergasse, near the market square . With its baroque buildings, Katharinenstrasse was a boulevard that was known far beyond the borders of Leipzig in the 18th century.

The coffee house was run by Gottfried Zimmermann. From 1723 the Leipzig student Collegium Musicum , which Georg Philipp Telemann founded as a law student in 1702, gave concerts there. From 1729 to 1739 Johann Sebastian Bach directed the Collegium Musicum and performed many of his secular cantatas and instrumental compositions here . The concerts ended with Zimmermann's death in 1741. They are considered to be the forerunners of the Gewandhaus concerts, the hour of which was the founding of the musical society Großes Concert in 1743.

The hall of the Zimmermann Coffee House offered larger music ensembles - including trumpets and timpani - and around 150 listeners. The two-hour concerts held weekly all year round, twice a week during the three fairs , took place in the summer in Zimmermann's coffee garden on Grimmaischer Steinweg , with about the same number of listeners as in the hall. Although no admission fee was charged, the concerts revived Zimmermann's coffee and restaurant operations so much that he bought instruments for the Collegium Musicum at his own expense.

The building was destroyed by the air raids on Leipzig in December 1943. The square remained undeveloped for over 60 years and was part of Sachsenplatz . Now in its place stands the Katharinum, built by Christoph Kohl , an enclosure for the Museum of Fine Arts .

Trivia

  • The Internet radio Radio Café Zimmermann has been broadcasting classical music around the clock from Munich since 2018 . The name is chosen after the traditional Leipzig site.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bach in Leipzig
  2. ↑ Ulrike Dura: text accompanying the copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, page no longer available , search in web archives: object database of the Leipzig City History Museum@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtmuseum-leipzig.de
  3. ↑ a b c Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach. 2000, p. 379.
  4. ^ Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach. 2000, p. 381.
  5. ↑ Two violins, a viola, two bassoons and two violons are documented (Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach. 2000, p. 379 f.).
  6. ↑ Café Zimmermann. In: maierartists. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ Website of Radio Café Zimmermann. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .

Web links

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 30 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  E