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27.05.2024 – A Frankfurt institution: 20 years of Café Siesmayer

As an integral part of Frankfurt’s gastronomy scene, Café Siesmayer has stood for first-class baked goods, a well-trained team and a cosmopolitan atmosphere for two decades.

Founder and managing director Robert Mangold had the café built in 2004 with the help of the city of Frankfurt with the aim of “creating a modern Viennese coffee house that stands out with its own pastry shop and training of specialists.” It should be a meeting place for all generations and social milieus and so the living room of the city “invites you to linger from morning to early evening, to read the newspaper with a coffee after a visit to the palm garden or to have a business lunch.”

The elongated cube realized by Turkali Architects was based on two considerations: Based on the large café houses in Venice, Vienna and Paris, the café should serve as an open meeting place for people from different life situations and backgrounds and due to its location between the city and a green oasis convey. The facades respond to the development of the west end with a balanced proportion of closed and open areas. With its wide window front facing the palm garden and a longitudinal ceiling without supports as well as a raised light gap, the café offers a view of the surrounding greenery.

The café is named after Heinrich Siesmayer, a gardener and garden architect who designed the palm garden in Frankfurt’s Westend around 200 years ago. He must have been very busy, because he is said to have designed around 1,000 gardens in total, including the spa parks in Bad Homburg, Wiesbaden, Falkenstein, Frankfurt’s Grüneburgpark and Mannheim’s Luisenpark.

You can access the Café Siesmayer website here