During the asparagus season from May to June , our kitchen team peels and processes the premium vegetable into asparagus spears, soup, salad, or in the "Original Leipziger Allerlei".
According to an American study, Auerbachs Keller currently ranks 5th among the 10 most famous restaurants in the world, following:. Auerbachs Keller Leipzig. Therefore, can be considered as the founding year of Auerbach's Cellar. In doing so, the basement retains its current dimensions: On three floors, there are the so-called witch's kitchen, the barrel cellar, the Luther room, and the Goethe cellar.
The house sign, a stone relief of the wine god Bacchus, which was attached to the facade at that time, can still be admired in the wine cellar today. In the renovated wine cellar, sales skyrocket, to the point that Heinrich Stromer paid almost a third of the city's entire wine tax in Johan Fausten," the story of Faust's barrel ride from a Leipzig wine cellar is told. Johann Vetzer, the great-grandson of Heinrich Stroemer, has the story of the Fassritt and the subsequent joyful revelry of the students depicted on two paintings by the painter Andreas Bretschneider.
Since then, the story has been closely associated with the venue "Auerbach's Cellar. The two corner paintings, in their current state, are the oldest original furnishings of the cellar.
While it is not proven that Bach visited the cellar, it is very likely since his path from the St. Thomas Church to the St. Nikolai and St. Johanniskirche led him past here several times a day for 27 years. Johann Wolfgang Goethe begins his studies in Leipzig. His stay at "Auerbach's Cellar" and especially the two old Faust paintings inspire him to write his Faust poetry. Franciscus Venoni leases the cellar and makes it one of the first "Italian cellars" known in Leipzig.
