To the silver sack
Zum Silbersack is a pub in St. Pauli near the Reeperbahn .
history
The restaurant was founded in 1949 by the couple Erna and Friedrich Thomsen in Hamburg-St. Pauli on a rubble plot near the Reeperbahn. In 1958 Friedrich Thomsen died, his wife Erna continued the business alone. The restaurant soon became a cult pub. Celebrities like Heinz Rühmann , Curd Juergens , Hans Albers , Freddy Quinn and Hildegard Knef were among the guests.
Erna Thomsen, born on April 16, 1924, died of heart failure on May 9, 2012 at the age of 88. Thereupon the "silver sack" was closed because neither son Gerd Thomsen nor sister Heidrun Thomsen, who lives in Scotland, wanted to continue the cult pub. The silver sack, however, lives on under different management.
Start-up
Regulars, residents, the St. Pauli Interest Group (IG St. Pauli), the St. Pauli Citizens' Association from 1843 e. V. , the district office of Hamburg-Mitte and a Facebook initiative that will soon have more than 1,300 members campaigned for preservation. Through the mediation of the then District Office Manager Andy Grote , the bar property with the associated residential building was sold to the "Friends of Silbersack GmbH & Co. KG". This company was founded by 20 Hamburg real estate merchants, including Andreas Rehberg (Grossmann & Berger GmbH), Frank Schmidt (Quantum), Stefan Wulff ( Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung ) and Andreas Fraatz (Fraatz-Bartels group of companies) and real estate financier Christian Holle . The purchase price is estimated at around one million euros .
The "silver sack" was leased again and was able to reopen in August 2012. The tenant is Dominik Großefeld from Dortmund, who started working in the pub in 2010 and is considered the foster son of the late Silbersack landlady. He has signed a ten-year contract with the new owner group with an option for a further ten years.
Facade art
The building with its colorful, unusual facade was depicted by various artists, including the Hamburg scene painter 4000 , who painted the “silver sack ” for his St. Pauli series.
Web links
- Stefanie Backs: With patina and pathos to legend , article in Hamburger Wirtschaft (magazine of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce ), 7/2014, p. 18.
- Article picture May 18, 2012: Funeral of the "Silbersack" landlady / farewell to neighborhood legend Erna Thomsen († 88)
- Article Hamburger Abendblatt June 6, 2012, subject to a charge: cult restaurant Silbersack - a legend should be saved
- Article MoPo July 31, 2012: Neuer Wirt - Cult pub Zum Silbersack rescued
- Article Spiegel Online August 5, 2012: You are real silver sacks
Web links multimedia
- Photo Erna Thomsen at Hamburg-Web
- “Save the silver sack” YouTube
- "Silbersack opens again", Hamburg Journal July 31, 2012 NDR Mediathek ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- "Zum Silbersack opens again", HH1 July 31, 2012 YouTube
- “The silver sack song” - René Achneux YouTube
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '55.9 " N , 9 ° 57' 35.9" E