Description
According to the company's own chronicle, the original building of the brewery on Goldgasse was first mentioned in a shrine register in 1442 and listed as a brewery in a tax list in 1487. The name and owner of the brewery changed several times over the next few centuries. The name Zum Mailaen has been handed down from 1589; a new building in the 1650s was named Zum Marienbildchen. The "counter sheep" of the chamber of horrors The "counter sheep" of the chamber of horrors The last real master brewer of the Marienbildchen at Johannistraße 42 / corner Goldgasse (today the bus station or the location of the commercial hotel on Breslauer Platz) was Christian Firmenich in 1798, before the Cologne guilds came through The French revolutionary government were dissolved. 1912 the Cologne address book contains the brewer Johann Krips as the owner of the Chamber of Terror at Johannisstrasse 40/42. [2] He had a new building built in 1912 and sold the brewery in November 1933 to the brewer Ferdinand Wirtz and his son Cornelius, father and grandfather of the current shareholders Hermann-Josef Maria Wirtz and Georg Wirtz. The building at its original location was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943. After the war, instead of the destroyed row of houses, the city bus station was set up on part of the site, and the corner property was given to another owner. As compensation, Cornelius Wirtz received the property at its current location in Ursulagartenstrasse not far from the Romanesque church of St. Ursula. It was not until 1960 that the restaurant could be reopened here - further under the name of the Chamber of Terror. It is run by the Wirtz family to this day and was expanded and expanded to include a neighboring building in 2009. The origin of the name "Schreckenskammer" is unclear. There are anecdotes according to which exams of a neighboring railway training institute took place in the rooms of the restaurant, which could be a "horror" for the examinees. An alternative theory is that those sentenced to death would have received their executioner's meal on the way to the Weckschnapp execution site at the inn.
