To the Csikós

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"Zum Csikós" in the old town of Düsseldorf

The restaurant Zum Csikós was opened in the old town in the winter of 1950 as a Hungarian tavern with Hungarian cuisine and gypsy music and was one of the traditional restaurants in Düsseldorf .

Location and building

The "Zum Csikós" is on Andreasstrasse 7-9, opposite the former town house . The houses of the no. 7 and no. 9 are connected to each other and belong to a more than 300-year-old, with ensemble monument standing Baroque row of houses from 1687 and 1697. In the Andreasstraße 9 was located from 1697 to around 1798, the Creudersche pharmacy .

In house no. 7 there is a large hall at the rear and the more rustic, very narrow neighboring house of no. 9, which has several floors, is also used as a guest room again. In the quiet pedestrian zone , which is only 120 m long and named after the Andreas Church , there are two more traditional restaurants, Benders Marie and Weinhaus Tante Anna .

history

Otto Schuster, born in 1901 in Bohemia , and Trude Schuster opened their restaurant shortly before Christmas 1950, on Andreasstrasse 7–9 in Düsseldorf's old town. As early as 1948, the couple found a 30 m² shop with an apartment on the ground floor of Altestadt 14 , today's “Kreuzherrenecke”, as their home. The couple offered "Trudls' Hühnersuppe" for consumption in the front area of ​​the small room on the corner of Ursulinengasse and the extension of Ratinger Straße . Business went well and so the Schuster family opened a real restaurant called “Zum Csikos”. The original tavern quickly developed into a jazz bar and a popular meeting place for artists.

There was Hungarian cuisine to eat, along with Bohemian beer and slivovitz . A guest once wrote about the goulash soup : “After enjoying this fiery soup, the flames came out of all orifices and I had to find out that for weeks I had no more problems with annoying nose and ear hairs. My glasses were fogged up, my eyes were watering and my voice pitch was a little higher one or two hours later. "

A combo with Dixieland Jazz entertained the audience. The artist Horst Geldmacher played with his friend Günther Scholl (* 1923) on the banjo and Günter Grass , while studying at the art academy , on the washboard . There used to be a face check at the entrance. Grass began his career here in 1952/53 as a bouncer, collected the material for the novel The Tin Drum , and thus set a literary monument to his friends. The "Csikós" became the "onion cellar" and the innkeeper Otto Schuster the "Schmuh". The trio broke up when Grass went to Berlin in late 1952. Another formation was a duo of violinist and double bass that Schuster had brought from Austria.

In 1957/1958 Schuster had his regular guests captured in a picture. The painters Franz Witte and Germán Becerra , both representatives of the 1950s scene in “Csikós”, captured the company in a large-format work. Fifty-five people can be seen, including Schuster himself, Ewald Mataré , Otto Coester , Bernhard Pfau and Günter Grass, other artists and architects as well as representatives from politics and society.

Kay and Lore Lorentz came from the nearby Kom (m) ödchen . The artists Bruno Goller , Anatol , Hannes Loos , Hannes and Trude Esser , Peter Rübsam , Kurt Sandweg , Herbert Zangs were guests as well as the cabaret artist Ursula Herking and film stars like Hanne Wieder , Gert Fröbe and Elisabeth Flickenschildt . Theater greats like Gustaf Gründgens and Karl-Heinz Stroux celebrated here according to their ideas.

The "Csikós" was very soon one of the leading bars visited by a discerning international audience. Artists only paid half the price. Otto Schuster met Franz Bobby Rethmeyer, who was a buffet in the house brewery "Zum Schlüssel" after the Second World War , and in November 1954 he opened the "Kreuzherrenecke" with schnapps (80% schnapps from Poland) in the corner bar as an artists' meeting place. The restaurant was only called "Bobby" internally after the landlord had taken over the "Kreuzherrenecke" from Otto Schuster.

Trude Schuster and Anna Nolte, who called themselves Countess Anima Orlowska, laid the foundation stone of the Düsseldorf Boulevard Theater Komödie Düsseldorf in 1962 .

New beginning

After unsuccessful attempts as an animation bar or Indian eatery, the "Csikós" reopened in 2011 after enlargement and renovations with a new tenant based on the traditional concept with Bohemian beer, Hungarian cuisine and live gypsy music. It has been closed again since 2018.

literature

  • Karl Böcker, Heidi Richter (Ed.): Bobby. Pictures and stories from the schnapps bar Kreuzherrenecke: Düsseldorf, Alte Stadt 14 , Emons Verlag, Cologne 2003 ISBN 3-89705-274-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Schreckenberg: Düsseldorf trendy bar celebrates its birthday , on NRZ.de from September 13, 2014
  2. ↑ Helga Meister: poet Grass as a doorman , on WZ from April 13, 2015, accessed on October 11, 2015
  3. ^ Michael Gassmann: Grass Memoirs. There the rotten dog lies buried Frankfurter Allgemeine from September 8, 2006, accessed on October 11, 2015
  4. ^ The tin drum picture , on Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
  5. ↑ To the Csikós ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on reisetipp-duesseldorf.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reisetipp-duesseldorf.de
  6. Jump up ↑ Helga Meister: The forever young Kreuzherrenecke is turning 60 , on Westdeutsche Zeitung, Düsseldorf from September 11, 2014, accessed on October 12, 2015
  7. ↑ Boulevard vomFeinsten, 50 years comedy at the Stone Road in IHK magazine August 2012, p.8, accessed on 12 October 2015
  8. ↑ Inge Hufschlag: Das Csikos is coming again , NRZ from January 27, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 37 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 26.5"  E