Café Sperl
The Café Sperl is a traditional Grade II listed Viennese coffee corner Gumpendorferstraße and Lehargasse in the 6th district of Vienna Mariahilf.
1880 opened Ronacher Jacob, brother of Anton Ronacher ( the founder of the famous Etablissement Ronacher ), a cafe, the Café at the corner Ronacher Gumpendorferstraße / Lehargasse. The design of the restaurant in the style of a ring road cafes with hardwood floors, chairs by Thonet, marble tables, crystal chandeliers and Caramboltischen was carried out by the architect Wilhelm Anton Jelinek and Large. However, in the same year was Ronacher on the business and sold it to the family Sperl, who continued it under the name Café Sperl. In 1884 Adolf Kratochwilla owner of the premises, but kept the now -established names in.
Among the regulars at the Sperl included in the period before the First World War, a curious mix of artists - writers, painters, architects, composers, musicians, actors - and the nearby military kuk Military school to the latter included, for example the later Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian army Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and Archduke Joseph Ferdinand.
From 1895 to 1942, the Association of Artists entertained Hagen society (from the 1900 Hagenbund seen ) here his regular table. Also in 1895 found himself in the Sperl Siebenerclub, the Josef Hoffmann, Leo Kleinradl, Adolf Karpellus, Maximilian Kurzweil, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Friedrich mushroom belong to the called later, along with other artists the Vienna Secession in life. In addition, included in that time Joseph Lewinsky, Alexander Girardi, Eysler, Richard Heuberger, Millöcker and Franz Lehár the regulars at the Sperl.
After the Second World War, the cafe began operation again. In 1968, Manfred dust the place of the family Kratochwilla and had it renovated in 1983, preserving the heritage-listed ensembles. In subsequent years, the Sperl gained various awards, it was named Austrian coffee house in 1998 and received the 2004 Golden Coffee Bean. Among the regulars in the recent past included the writer Jörg Mauthe, Robert Manasseh and Michael Köhlmeier.