Café Zimmermann

The Zimmermannsche cafe, contemporary room Manni cal Caffe - Hauss, rare Café Zimmermann, was a café in Leipzig. It was in the 1717 by Christian Schell oats, owner of a tavern on the market, built in Baroque town house (architect Christian Döring), which was called from 1727 Oertelsches house. The house was in St. Catherine Street No. 14, corner Böttchergasse near the market square. The Catherine Street was a well-known far beyond the borders of Leipzig in the 18th century boulevard with its baroque buildings.

The cafe was run by Gottfried Zimmermann. There concerted from 1723, the Leipzig student Collegium Musicum, the Georg Philipp Telemann had founded as a law student in 1702. From 1729 to 1739 Johann Sebastian Bach directed the Collegium Musicum and carried here on many of his secular cantatas and instrumental compositions. The concerts ended with Zimmermann's death in 1741. You are regarded as precursors of the Gewandhaus concerts, as the birth of the founding of the musical society is viewed Grand Concert 1743.

The hall of Zimmermann 's coffee house offered larger ensembles - even with trumpets and drums - as well as about 150 people theater-style. The year-round weekly during the three fairs held twice weekly, two-hour concerts took place in the summer in Zimmermann's coffee garden at Grimmaischen Steinweg place at about the same number of listeners as in the hall. Although there is no admission fee was charged, the concerts carpenter busy coffee and restaurant so much that he first purchased instruments for the Collegium Musicum at his own expense.

The building was destroyed by the bombing of Leipzig in December 1943. The site remained undeveloped over 60 years and was part of the space axes. Now stands in its place, built by Christoph Kohl Katharinum, a Einfassungsbau of the Museum of Fine Arts.

In 1999, the violinist Pablo Valetti with harpsichordist Céline Frisch in accordance with the local historical performance, the ensemble Café Zimmermann, which specializes in historical performance practice of Baroque music.