1556
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Building is mentioned in city records for the first time.
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| 1711 |
Coffee is first served.
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| 1717 |
The building is converted to the baroque style and is expanded into a coffee house.
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| 1720 |
Sculpture is attached above the door; since then the building has been called “Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum”.
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| 1833 |
In the following years Robert Schumann and other musicians meet regularly at Coffe Baum.
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| 1905/1906 |
The building is completely renovated.
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| 1917 |
Meeting of the German Association of Metalworkers to prepare the great strike in April.
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| 1948 |
The site becomes state property.
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| 1978 |
Artists’ cafe set up on the first floor.
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| 1990 |
The building is closed.
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| 1993 |
The city purchases the property from the federal government.
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| 1995-98 |
The building is extensively restored and modernised.
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| 1998 |
Restaurants on the ground and first floor and the cafe on the second floor are reopened.
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| 1999 |
January 30, the coffee museum is opened on the top floor.
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