To the last instance
| Waisenstrasse House To the last instance |
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 View of the building complex of reconstructed town houses from Parochialstrasse |
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| place | Berlin center |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | before 1561 rebuilt 1961–1963 changed |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '2.4 " N , 13 ° 24' 49.6" E |
As a last resort , the name is one of the oldest Berlin restaurants . It was built in a residential building in the 16th century as a brandy room and has been given new names several times. Today's listed building complex is being rebuilt after being destroyed in the Second World War . The restaurant is located on Waisenstrasse in the Mitte district, close to a piece of preserved medieval city wall .
location
Waisenstrasse in the Mitte district is part of what is known as the Klosterviertel of Old Berlin . These include the Molkenmarkt , Grunerstraße , Stadtbahn (former fortress moat ) and Spandauer Straße . The restaurant, address Waisenstrasse 14–16, is located near the former Bullenwinkel , a cul-de-sac bordered by the city wall , where butchers rounded up cattle for night or slaughter in the 19th century.
history
The house, whose back wall also formed the Berlin city wall, was first mentioned in a document in 1561. The construction method using existing walls was later referred to as Wiekhaus , of which no further ones have been preserved in the old Berlin cityscape. The house, designed for two to three families, stood in the traffic route parallel to the city wall, which at that time was called the Stralauer Mauer . The house was used as a drinking parlor for the first time in 1621. In that year, a groom of the then elector opened a spirits parlor on the ground floor. Around 1715, the owners named the pub Zum Bierstübchen am Glockenspiel based on the carillon installed in the neighboring Parochial Church that year . An economic use seems to have been preserved for decades, in the year 1822, for example, there is this entry in the address book: Owner Hr. Junge, used as a farm by (Mr.) Schröder. When the street was named after the orphanage built on the neighboring Stralauer Straße in 1861 , an innkeeper named Runge ran the taproom.
It was not until 1924 that the restaurant was given its current name by the owner at the time, G. Hoffmann. Around 1930 the Rechenbergs took over the management of the restaurant. The self-designation "Berlin's oldest restaurant" is not exactly exact, it only applies to the use of the house, but not to the current name of the last instance . The Alte Waldschänke in Berlin-Tegel has had her name since 1650.
The house at Waisenstrasse 15 was badly damaged in the Second World War , but was considered rebuildable by the Berlin magistrate . After the war, the Allied division of the city meant that the house was in East Berlin . In November 1961, the city administration decided to reopen the last resort as a tourist magnet in the form of an HO restaurant. Due to the additional space requirement, the externally classical building Waisenstrasse 15 together with the neighboring houses 14 and 16 was demolished down to the foundation walls and reopened in January 1963 as a new building ensemble HO-Gaststätte Zur lastbeispiel . The medieval substance and the historical room layout of the three buildings were essentially lost. The added buildings date from the 16th century as well as house number 15. Waisenstraße 14 served four families as a residence, many of whom were small craftsmen (several times are called tailors ), house number 16 was a residential rental house, adding about six to eight tenants were accommodated.
This reconstruction based on the original house led to an expansion of the restaurant, which has since provided three dining rooms for up to 120 guests, eight hotel rooms with 13 beds and a two-room apartment for the landlord. The modeled parts of the city wall still adorn the back of the building.
Surname
Before 1924 the old Berlin pub was briefly called Maria Beil , probably after the first name of the tenant H. Beil, who was an innkeeper here around 1900. In the years that followed, the innkeepers changed frequently, for example in 1910 the address book shows an H. Liebig and an innkeeper L. Idakowski. The name given to the last instance in 1924 is traced back to the inauguration of the courthouse in Neue Friedrichstrasse, today's Littenstrasse . Legend has it that two farmers fought a protracted and unsuccessful legal battle at this court. In the restaurant with a glass of beer, however, they could - so to speak, "in the last instance" - make peace. During the GDR era, Littenstrasse was home to other courts as well as the GDR's Supreme Court - actually the last instance.
After 1990
The interiors are only related to the original restaurant from the 1920s in details, but bear witness to old Berlin inn culture. The historic tiled stove made of majolica tiles, where celebrities like Napoleon Bonaparte are said to have sat, was put back up. The French President Jacques Chirac visited the restaurant on February 24, 2003 on the occasion of a state visit with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . Some furnishings from the time the building was built have been preserved.
The ensemble includes a beer garden (50 seats) with a view of the last remaining remains of the oldest city wall made of reading stones , the foundation of which is said to be up to 3.50 meters thick.
The menu is very interesting . She tells a short story of a possible neighborhood dispute in Berlin dialect that might have been fought in court and names the dishes on offer. These have a relation to jurisprudence such as the Berlin meatball “Negotiation break ”, the roasted veal liver “Cross examination” or a cod fillet “Justizirrtum”.
media
The restaurant has been used in various feature and television films .
- 1973 - one of the filming locations for the Soviet spy film Seventeen Moments of Spring . There it was, however, 'To the rough Gottlieb',
- 2003 - Location of the film Liegen Learn by Hendrik Handloegten ,
- 2014 - eponymous location of the episode The last instance of the lawyer Joachim Vernau series with Jan Josef Liefers
See also
literature
- Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Planning, building and ownership history of the historic Berlin city center in the 19th and 20th centuries . Verlagshaus Braun, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935455-31-3 (also dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 2002).
- Theodor Constantin: Old Berlin pubs. Berlin 1989, p. 54 ff.
Web links
- Internet presence of the company
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- To the last instance . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- Historical photo of the house front , after 1924
- Historical photography restoration v. Marie Beil , 1901
Individual evidence
- ↑ Behind the Stralau Wall . In: CF Wegener: House and General Address Book of the Royal. Capital and residence city Berlin , 1822, part 3, p. 361 (Schröder, economic yard and a shoemaker are given as residents).
- ↑ Waisenstrasse 15 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1863, part 2, p. 172. “Runge, Schankwirth” (included for the first time in Waisenstrasse).
- ↑ Waisenstrasse 15 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 4, p. 1012. “E [= owner] Stadt Berlin; Hoffmann, G .; Merchant and innkeeper ”.
- ↑ Waisenstrasse 15 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 4, p. 1053. “Rechenberg, Karl, Gastwirt”.
- ^ Berlin address books 1901, 1910, 1925: Waisenstraße
- ↑ Waisenstrasse 15 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, Part 3, p. 882. "Owner Jochemsche Erben, tenant or administrator: H. Liebig, innkeeper, and L. Idakowski, innkeeper".
- ↑ Thomas N. Riens: Quite old Europe: Where Napoleon already dined. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2003, accessed on July 13, 2019