The cent ral is a coffee house in Vienna. The former bank and stock exchange building in the gentleman Mr. 14 in the first district in, which are called today after its architect Heinrich of Ferstel palace Ferstel, is (a building established in the toskanischen Neorenaissance style).

The was opened 1860; in late 19. Century became it one of the most important meeting places of the mental life in Vienna. To the regular customers in the cent ral belonged among other things Peter Altenberg, Egon Friedell, Hugo of Hofmannsthal, Anton cow, Adolf Loos (that the museum sketched), to Leo Perutz and Alfred. Until 1938 one called the cafe also jokeful the chess university, since many chess players operated there.

A well-known anecdote means that the Austrian politician Heinrich count Clam Martinic, on whom possibility of a revolution in Russia is to have responded, say: Is "“who to make Perhaps the Mr. Bronstein from the cent Thus Leo Trotzki, civil Bronstein, was meant, since October 1907 up to the beginning of the 1. World war as an emigrant in Vienna lived and regularly in the cent ral chess played.

The writer Alfred wrote into the theory of the cent ral: "“Cent ral is no like other but a world view (...) its inhabitants are to a large extent people, whose people hostileness is as violent as their demand for humans, who want to be alone, but in addition society (...) the guests of the cent ral need, dear and each other (...) it small give works, to which only in the cent ral nothing occurs, estimate far everywhere elsewhere less (...)"”.

The closed after end of the Second World War. 1975, in the year of the monument protection, were reconditioned the palace Ferstel and cent ral - however not like before were again opened in the inner court of the palace, but in the areas of the former counter hall of a bank. 1986 was again reconditioned the premises.

Today the cent ral is on the one hand one point of attraction for tourists, on the other hand a good-civil which lives on the call of its literarily coined/shaped past.

Literature

• Kurt Heering (Hrsg.): Viennese the coffee house. Island, Frankfurt/Main 2002, ISBN 3-458-33018-6
• Ernst Wolfram Marboe (publisher): cent ral. Mueller, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-900784-06-X

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