Café Griensteidl

Café Griensteidl in Vienna, Austria (2007)

Café Griensteidl was a traditional Viennese café located at Michaelerplatz 2 across from St. Michael's Church and St. Michael's Gate at the Hofburg Palace in the Innere Stadt first district of Vienna, Austria. The café was founded in 1847 by former pharmacist Heinrich Griensteidl.^[1][2] In January 1897, the original building was demolished during the course of the renovation of Michaelerplatz.^[1] In autumn 1898, it was succeeded by the Café Glattauer.^[3] During the early twentieth century, the café was frequented by many artists, musicians, and writers, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal,^[4] Arthur Schnitzler, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky,^[4] Hermann Bahr,^[4] Friedrich Eckstein,^[5] Rudolf Steiner, Hugo Wolf, and Stefan Zweig.^[1]

In 1990, the café was reopened as Griensteidl again and became a popular location among the Viennese coffeehouse culture. But the owners closed in June 2017, citing rising rents.^[6]

Gallery

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  Old Café Griensteidl, before 1897
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  Old Café Griensteidl interior, before 1897
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  Café Griensteidl, printing by Reinhold Völkel, 1896

See also

• List of restaurants in Vienna

References

1. "Das Cafe". Cafè Griensteidl. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
2. Eisenschmid, Rainer, ed. (2011). Baedeker Vienna. Ostfildern: Verlag Karl Baedeker. p. 254. ISBN 9783829768085.
3. Carr, Gilbert (2015). "Time and Space in the Café Griensteidl and the Café Central". In Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, and Simon Shaw-Miller (ed.). The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. p. 40, 48n54. ISBN 978-0-85745-765-3.
4. Moskovitz, Marc D. (2010). Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. p. 9. ISBN 9781843835783.
5. Friedrich Eckstein's reminiscences, published as Alte, unnennbare Tage, page 122, republished by Severus, Hamburg, 2010. ISBN 3942382199
6. Kurier ("Cafe Griensteidl has to close", in German)

External links

• Café Griensteidl (German)

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