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Zum Seppl, front view (before 1906)
Today's front view (2012)

The Gasthaus Zum Seppl is a historic student bar in Heidelberg .

History of the house

Joseph Ditteney († 1890)

The building located at today's Karlsplatz was built after the city's destruction in 1693 in 1704 as a spacious, gable-free Baroque house on the foundations of an older stone cellar. Since then it has been a restaurant, initially with its own brewery. The current name is derived from the former owner Joseph Ditteney († 1890), a son of the Hirschgassenwirt of the same name , who took over the "Wolf'sche Brewery" and restaurant in 1848. In the 1850s, the Rhenan bar was temporarily located on the upper floor of the house . In 1885 the restaurant passed to the innkeeper Heinz, whose widow sold the house to the Gugel family after his death, which soon followed. This led it until 1911. At the beginning of the 1890s, brewing operations were stopped. The building is a historical monument.

Furnishing

In 1884 the house became the official restaurant of the Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention . It received the stained glass windows with the color or coat of arms shields of the five Heidelberg Corps at that time . The background was a dispute between the SC and a local black association in the winter semester of 1882/83, during which the Academic Senate imposed a number of prison sentences, including against almost all members of the SC. This prompted an intervention of the Heidelberg citizenship, which "saw in the processes an unfair treatment of the corps with which they felt more or less one, for better or for worse." Joseph Ditteney led a delegation of the citizenship to Karlsruhe, who successfully interceded with Grand Duke Friedrich I. As a reminder, the corps donated the five windows.

Inside there are mainly pictures of the corps on the walls from the time before the First World War. Traditionally, each Heidelberg corps had its own table. The rustic interior is a listed building .

meaning

In May 1935, Seppl was the starting point for the events that led to the Heidelberg asparagus meal , which became famous throughout the Reich . In 1951 it was, among other things, the location of the film Heidelberger Romance with Liselotte Pulver and OW Fischer , in 1959 the setting for the film Alt-Heidelberg by Ernst Marischka . Today the bar is a major Heidelberg tourist attraction and the most famous historical student bar.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Kuhnert: History of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg , Heidelberg 1913, p. 326
  2. ↑ Geert Seelig : A Heidelberg boy fifty years ago. From German students, Schleswig-Holstein lawyers and soldiers in Berlin in the Bismarckian Empire , Heidelberg 1933, p. 125

literature

  • Bernd Müller: Architectural Guide Heidelberg. Buildings around 1000-2000 , Mannheim 1998, p. 62
  • Volker von Offenburg: Cheers Heidelberg! The history of the Heidelberg breweries and beer bars , Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2005, pp. 79–82
  • State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg , Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3

Web links

Commons : Zum Seppl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 45.8 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 47.5"  E