Established: 1849

Fichtekränzi: A long history, founded in 1849, Fichtekränzi belongs to the oldest apple wine restaurants of the city. The name may sound somewhat strange to many non-residents, but as you can see the logo is in fact a ring consistent of twisted branches of spruce, or - in German: Fichte. For many hundred years, in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, this indicates one thing: Apple wine is served here.

Era: Biedermeier

In weekly publications and literature the conventionalness, the bigotry and unpolitical attitude of large parts of the middle class were caricatured and ridiculed. The poet Ludwig Pfau wrote a poem in 1847 titled Mr. Biedermeier, which indicts narrow-mindedness and double moral. It begins with the lines:

Look, there walks Mr. Biedermeier / and his wife, the son on her arm
his footstep is cautious as if walking on eggs / his slogan: Neither cold nor warm

Revolution

The central demands of the opposition in Germany and the Frankfurt national assembly, which was held 18.5.1848 - 18.6.1849 in the Paulskirche, were following: the induction of citizen and liberty rights, the installation of liberal federal state governments but above all the creation of a German national state with an all-German constitution and a representative government. As we know, it failed. For the time being.

Phoenix from the ash

Fichtekränzi survived all confusions of the time more or less unharmed, until it fell into a kind of Sleeping Beauty slumber around 1980, from which it awoken again in 1993.
Klaus Borsch took over the "Fichte" with many ideas, enthusiasm and an innovative concept. From the past remained, what was good - apple wine and Frankfurt kitchen -, added to it was an eager cook, who extended the food offer internationally (a look at the large slates in the guest areas will convince you), outstanding wines, draught beers, Alsace spirits. To name a few.

And now "Fichte" is again one of the most popular restaurants of Sachsenhausen.

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