To the happy pike
To rejoice Hecht is a traditional inn in the town Lübbenau / Spreewald belonging Spreewald village Lehde .
The Hecht is located in the village center at the mouth of Pike trench in the Lehder ditch and was, quite Lehde, accessible only by water until the 1929th Even today, the guests arrive with Spreewald boats that dock directly at the pub's beer garden. The restaurant is now heavily geared towards mass tourism.
Native fish species are shown in several large aquariums in the Spreewald. The Spreewaldmuseum Lehde is located directly opposite the Fröhlichen Hecht .
history
The Richter family has been running the Lehdes village tavern since 1640 . The tavern was a Halbkossäthengut and at that time consisted of a simple log house , the usual buildings in Lehde. The house was home to both the inn and the dining room. Various additions were made later, including the Altwendische Saal made of planks and an ice cellar. In 1897 the so-called summer house was built as a lodging house , also as a timber frame construction. A laundry room followed in 1925 at the rear of the restaurant. In the garden stood a wooden, slate-roofed garden room with stained glass windows, which was open to the courtyard.
The Merry Pike gained national fame with the advent of organized Spreewald tourism at the end of the 19th century. The innkeeper at the time , August Richter , was very open to art and artists. Well-known painters were among the guests of the house and sometimes lived and worked here for months. The Görlitz painter Professor Woite recommended that brochures from the inn be sent to artists' associations in Germany. The idyllic motifs of the Spreewald landscape were particularly emphasized here. A large number of painters from home and abroad followed the call. Painters such as Carl Röchling , Eschke and Georg Estler left their works in a gallery that was originally set up next to the old-fashioned dance hall.
Since 1886, at Woite's suggestion, the inn has been called Zum Fröhlichen Hecht. Woite justified his idea with the "excellent young pike [n]" and the happy atmosphere in the house. The landlord also set up barges traveling from Lübbenau to Lehde every quarter of an hour as a Spree omnibus and organized many festivals, such as Venetian Nights , especially aimed at the artist clientele . August Richter died on June 17, 1933 as a result of a heart attack.
In 1975, during the GDR era , the old romantic inn was torn down and replaced by a new building. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on March 26, 1976. The old Wendish hall and the summer house were preserved.
literature
- Christel Lehmann-Enders, Ute Henschel: Das Spreewalddorf Lehde , 1996, page 46 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Riemer: Spreewald and Tourism in the History of the City of Lübbenau - 20th Century - , 2004, page 175
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 46.3 " N , 13 ° 59 ′ 27.7" E