Cafe Frauenhuber Chronik

After Magister Marrus Faber, this bath house came into the possession of the Abbot of Heiligenkreuz (a monastery in the Vienna Woods some 40 km to the South-West of Vienna). O n June 12th, 1392, Michel the Gewchramer [Geukramer] , Mayor and Master of the Mint, and Niklas Weylpacher, head of the Civic Hospital and city councillor in Vienna, certified to having sold all property of that hospital including its jurisdiction and tithe (all listed separately) to Abbot Coloman of Heiligenkreuz for 700 pounds of Viennese Pfennigs. They received 400 pounds in cash and for the remaining 300 took over the monastery’s bath house, located by the Himmelpforten in Vienna. This transaction was challenged by the Abbot of the Scot’s Convent, the premises’ landlord, about which we are informed in a document from the 21st of July of that year. In it, brother Coloman, Abbot of Heiligenkreuz confirms having discharged for 132 Viennese Pounds a debt of four pounds of Viennese Pfennigs incurred on the bath house by Ulrich, Pastor of Burg L ocated on these premises was a bath house, first mentioned in 1314. In 1357 the bath house was in the possession of one Peters, wife of the Endres of Prchenfrits, who passed it on to her Husband, Andre the Prchenfrits. The premises owed the Abbots of the Viennese Scots Convent 15 Viennese Pfennigs a year [The “Scots Convent” was actually founded by Irish monks of Scots Origin. It was the Scots of Ireland who also gave Scotland the Name] . The register of the Scots Convent informs us about further owners during the 14th century: Rueger, son of Egidis the barber-surgeon, and Magister Marrus Faber. T he barber-surgeons [German: Bader] were principally healers, but originally no more than bath attendants and owners 1549. The conditions for becoming a master of the trade were three years of apprenticeship, an “honest and free birth” (meaning legi-timate), being married, citizenship and a qualified establishment. Nevertheless, they retained the duty of fire fighting. In 1736 there were 28 bath houses in Vienna. H istory of the building at Himmelpfortgasse 6 in Vienna [“Himmelpfort” literally means Heaven’s Gate] ! N achwort Das Haus, in dem sich heute das Café Frauenhuber befindet, existierte bereits im Jahre 1746, wie aus einem aus dieser Zeit erhaltenen Stich von Salomon Kleiner hervorgeht (Original befindet sich im Cafe Frauenhuber). Als Kaffeehaus wurde es seit 1824 erwähnt und es scheinen als Besitzer auf: Alois Hänisch (1824-1840) Kasimir (1840-1849) Anton Sagorz (1849-1877) Herzog (1877-1891) Josef Frauenhuber der Ältere (1891-1924) Leopoldine Frauenhuber, Gattin (1924-1928) Josef Frauenhuber der Jüngere, Sohn (1928-1959) Wilhelmine Frauenhuber, Gattin (1959-1968) Raimund Binder (1968-2005) Familie Binder (seit 2005) Die meisten Daten der Chronik stammen von dem Autor Herr Paul Harrer-Lucienfeld, der vor 30 Jahren das Kaffeehaus öfter besuchte und aus dessen Werk „Wien, seine Häuser und Kultur”, das sich in der Stadt- bibliothek im neuen Rathaus befindet. Auch im Bundesdenkmalamt in der Hofburg konnten viele interessante Details in Erfahrung gebracht werden. Zuletzt wurde das Kaffeehaus 2000 zur Gänze renoviert. Wir hoffen, daß es uns damit gelungen ist, ein Alt-Wiener-Kaffeehaus in seiner typischen Art und vor allem die damit verbundene eigene Atmosphärezu erhalten. Familie Binder