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{{short description|Austrian pastry shop and chocolaterie established in 1786}}
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[[File:Café Demel, Vienna.jpg|thumb|Demel in Vienna]]▼
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| name = Ch. Demel's Söhne
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| image = Café Demel, Vienna.jpg
| image_caption = Demel pastry shop in Vienna
| type = [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|GmbH]]
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| foundation = 1786
| founder = Ludwig Dehne<br />Christoph Demel
| location = [[Innere Stadt]], [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
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| industry = [[Confectionery]] ({{Lang|de|[[Konditorei]]}})
| products = [[Pastry|Pastries]]
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| parent = [[Do & Co]]
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| homepage = [http://demel.at/ Demel.at]
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'''Demel''' (colloquially ''der Demel'') is a famous [[pastry|pastry shop]] and [[chocolaterie]] established in 1786 in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]. The company bears the title of a [[Royal warrant of appointment|Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court]] (''k.u.k. Hofzuckerbäcker'') up to today.
== Location ==
The building is located in the central [[Innere Stadt]] district on [[Kohlmarkt, Vienna|Kohlmarkt]] 14 near [[Hofburg Palace]]. The interior was designed by Portois and Fix decorators in a [[Baroque Revival architecture|Neo-baroque]] style. The white-aproned waitresses — the ''Demelinerinnen'' — usually address the customers in a traditional [[honorific]] third person [[Style (manner of address)|style]], "''Haben schon gewählt?''" or "''Wollen etwas zu sich nehmen, wenn belieben?''".<ref>{{citation |title = Wien ist anders - Ist Wien anders? |page=894 | author=Philipp Charwath}}</ref> The cabaret artist [[Helmut Qualtinger]] extolled their timeless quality in his song ''Die Demelinerinnen''.<ref>{{citation |title=Women in World History |page=493 |isbn=0787640638 |author=Anne Commire |year=1999 |quote=In a hectic and unstable world, Demel's has come to signify an unchanging world of tradition, perhaps best described by the Viennese cabaret artist Helmut Qualtinger in his song "Die Demelinerinnen" ("Demel's waitresses")... |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist04comm }}</ref>
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The ''k.k. Hofzuckerbäckerei'' pastry shop was founded on Michaelerplatz by Ludwig Dehne, a confectioner from [[Duchy of Württemberg|Württemberg]]. Upon his early death in 1799, the business was continued by his widow for their minor son August Dehne. In 1813 she purchased the house on Michaelerplatz 14. August Dehne inherited the company in 1832 and successfully managed the business, however, as his son pursued an academic career, he sold the company to his journeyman Christoph Demel in 1857.
The Vienna site features a museum with artifacts about the history of the Imperial chocolate-making bakery.▼
Renamed ''Ch. Demel's Söhne'' in 1867, Christoph Demel's sons Joseph and Karl continued the business and were granted the title of a purveyor to the [[House of Lorraine|Habsburg]] court by Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] in 1874. When in 1888 the old [[Burgtheater]] on Michaelerplatz was demolished combined with a general refurbishment of the whole square, they moved the confectionery around the corner to Kohlmarkt, where the company is still located today in its original building. In the heyday of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian monarchy]], notable customers included Empress [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria|Elisabeth]] (''Sisi''), Princess [[Pauline von Metternich]], and actress [[Katharina Schratt]]. During the Austrian ''[[Anschluss]]'' to [[Nazi Germany]] 1938–45, the Vienna ''Gauleiter'' [[Baldur von Schirach]] and his wife [[Henriette von Schirach|Henriette]] were regulars here.
The company was headed by Demel's heirs until 1972, when the entrepreneur [[Udo Proksch]] bought it and established the ''Club 45'' on the first floor, a popular venue of the Vienna [[High society (social class)|high society]]. After Proksch was arrested for his involvement in the ''[[Lucona]]'' affair in 1989, the [[Raiffeisen Zentralbank|Raiffeisen Bank]] became the owner of the famous company. In 2002 the [[Do & Co]] restaurants and catering company took over Demel.
[[File:Demel-Sign.jpg|thumb|Demel exterior sign]]
==Legal issues==
{{Main|Sachertorte}}
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a legal battle over the use of the label "The Original Sacher Torte" developed between the [[Hotel Sacher]] and the Demel bakery. Eduard Sacher, son of [[Franz Sacher]], the inventor of Sachertorte, had completed his own recipe of his father's cake during his time at Demel, which was the first establishment to offer the "Original" cake.
The first differences of opinion arose in 1938, when the new owners of the Hotel Sacher began to sell Sacher Tortes from vendor carts under the trademarked name "The Original Sacher Torte". After interruptions brought about by the Second World War and the ensuing Allied occupation, the hotel owners sued Demel in 1954, with the hotel asserting its trademark rights and the bakery claiming it developed and bought the title "Original Sacher Torte".
Over the next seven years, both parties waged an intense legal war over several of the dessert's specific characteristics, including the change of the name, the second layer of [[jam]] in the middle of the cake, and the substitution of [[margarine]] for [[butter]] in the baking of the cake. The author [[Friedrich Torberg]], who was a frequent guest at both establishments, served as a witness during this process and testified that, during the lifetime of
==Demel Museum==
{{See also|List of food and beverage museums}}
▲The Vienna site features a museum with artifacts about the history of the Imperial chocolate-making bakery.
==See also==
* [[List of restaurants in Vienna]]
==References==
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== External links ==
{{commonscat|Ch. Demel’s Söhne}}
▲{{Portal|Vienna|Food}}
* [http://www.demel.at/en/index_en_flash.htm Demel.at]
* [http://www.demel.at/en/frames/index_wien_museum.htm Demel Museum]
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