To the cornflower (Potsdam)

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Gasthaus to Kornblume street side
Gasthaus zur Kornblume courtyard
Gasthaus zur Kornblume Jägerstübchen
Gasthaus zur Kornblume Ratsstube

The Gasthaus Zur Kornblume was a historic inn in Potsdam's old town, Kirchstrasse 7. Since the middle of the 18th century at the latest, the street ran between the Nikolaikirche on the Alter Markt and Grünstrasse (today's Joliot-Curie-Strasse). In the course of the rebuilding of the rubble plots in the 1960s, the cornflower and Kirchstrasse disappeared from the Potsdam cityscape as a whole.

History of the house

In the house at Kirchstrasse 7 there was originally a break . This means an inn with the possibility to relax the horses from the carts and carriages, i.e. to spend the night of the travelers and to keep the animals in the stable. Since when the inn existed cannot be determined. The inn was reopened in the middle of the 18th century. In 1797, the inn "Black Bear" with the innkeeper Mathes is documented for Kirchstrasse. In the years 1811 and 1821, the list of innkeepers under the serial number 61 for Kirchstrasse 7 documents a pub under the landlord Menz, who also ran his own brewery. In 1836 the pub, in which rooms were also rented, was owned by his widow. Also in 1848 was a Mr. Menz at Kirchstrasse 7 Schankwirt, probably the son of the previous owner. In 1872 the inn was still owned by the Menz family, now in the hands of the innkeeper Friedrich Karl Gustav Menz. The inn seems to have been leased to the innkeeper, Ch. Senger. Since 1890 the inn had been owned by Mrs. Henriette Senger, who increasingly burdened him with mortgages in the years to come . From 1896 to 1903 the inn was run by the innkeeper Heinrich König, who was not registered as the owner. Since 1901 at the latest, the inn has been called "Zur Kornblume". At the end of 1903, the restaurateur Christoph Kästner bought the "Kornblume" and began to mortgage the innkeeper again in 1904. After the end of the First World War , the inn passed to Paul Kästner, who was probably his son. The "Kornblume" was now sold several times in quick succession, initially in 1930 to Bertha Klapper, the widow of the former owner of the "Residenz Restaurant" Robert Klapper. In January 1934 the innkeeper Heinrich Schulz was registered and finally in 1935 Dr. Heinrich Wetzel as owner in the land register , who was already rented here as a student for half a year in 1901. On the night of April 14, 1945, the inn was seriously damaged by British aerial bombs . At the end of April 1945 there was heavy artillery fire by the Red Army and the city was finally taken. The old town suffered severe damage, and the “Zur Kornblume” inn was completely destroyed. On April 29, 1945, Dr. Heinrich Wetzel (1878–1945) killed by soldiers of the Red Army with a shot in the head in the nearby ´Frenchisches Kirche´. In 1958, on the basis of a certificate of inheritance on September 24, 1958, entered on December 30, 1958, the student Peter Rudolf Wetzel, the only son of Dr. Heinrich Wetzel, documented as the owner of the rubble site . With effect from September 20, 1961, the property was finally expropriated and declared property of the people. In the sixties there was a complete overbuilding with a new building block, the Kirchstrasse finally disappeared from the cityscape .

Furnishing

Around 1900 the inn had stables for 35 horses and a total of 6 guest rooms . In the 1920s, the owner Paul Kästner undertook a large number of structural renovations, which he financed by taking out various mortgages . Most of these mortgages could be canceled by 1930. To increase the capacity of the guest rooms, the left side of the courtyard building was expanded and rebuilt. The heating system was completely renewed in the war year 1943.

meaning

Around 1900 the inn “Zur Kornblume” was a relaxation station and class III inn. The inn was mainly visited by the rural population who came to Potsdam for business. Especially on market days, the only dining room in the left part of the building was completely overcrowded (the inn was in the right part of the building). After the First World War , visits by local customers decreased noticeably and were therefore switched to the new city customers. The "Kornblume" developed into a meeting place for originals from Potsdam , such as the poet Hermann Kasack , the Potsdam local poet Friedrich Daumann, Joachim Ringelnatz and the publisher Alfred Richard Meyer (alias Munkepunke ), who published four of Ringelnatz's books. Here also peculiar clubs met, such as B. Munkepunke founded the "swimming club of intellectual men of high standing", the "brothers of the secret bar box" or the "Association of Friends of Steamship Sports".

literature

  • Jörg Fröhlich, Historic Hotels and Restaurants in Potsdam Yesterday and Today, Volume 1, The Potsdam Old Town and the Potsdamer Neustadt, Norderstedt 2012
  • August Bonness, guide of Bacchus and Gambrinus through famous and well-known restaurants in Greater Germany, Potsdam 1942
  • Konrad Haemmerling, Gastronomic Journey into the Past, Part VIII, Meeting Point of the Originals, in: Potsdamer Tageszeitung, No. 45, Speyer 1956, p. 4
  • Moritz Hoffmann, Goldener Anker and Black Whale - A Guide to Memorable Restaurants, Berlin 1940

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Fröhlich, Historic Hotels and Restaurants in Potsdam Yesterday and Today, Volume 1, The Potsdam Old Town and the Potsdamer Neustadt, Norderstedt 2012, p. 43 f.
  2. ↑ Address calendar of the kgl. Pr. Capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam
  3. ^ Primary electoral list for 1848
  4. ↑ see in the land register for October 4, 1872 and February 28, 1873
  5. ↑ see in the land register from October 3, 1890
  6. ↑ Land Register of Potsdam Volume 3, Sheet No. 171
  7. ^ Address book of the city of Potsdam from 1925
  8. ↑ Jörg Fröhlich, Historic Hotels and Restaurants in Potsdam Yesterday and Today, Volume 1, The Potsdam Old Town and the Potsdamer Neustadt, Norderstedt 2012, p. 45
  9. ^ Potsdam City Archives, City Building Office
  10. ↑ Jörg Fröhlich, Historic Hotels and Restaurants in Potsdam Yesterday and Today, Volume 1, The Potsdam Old Town and the Potsdamer Neustadt, Norderstedt 2012, p. 45
  11. ^ Konrad Haemmerling, Gastronomic Journey into the Past, Part VIII, Meeting Point of the Originals, in: Potsdamer Tageszeitung, No. 45, Speyer 1956, p. 4