Pupp Journal Sommer 2013 - Grandhotel Pupp

Saga of the Pupp Family
Wenn Johann Georg leben würde, müßte er sich in jener Zeit von den
Taten seiner Söhne mit Schmerz abwenden. Oder wenigstens von dem
älteren, Josef. Josef, dem gelernten Zuckerbäcker fiel der Böhmische
Saal sowie die Pupp'schen Alleen zu. Er erweiterte Vaters Werk um
keinen Finger breit. Er heiratete die Fleischerstochter Barbara Urban
aus dem Hause Zu den drei Lämmchen und ohne jeden Nachkommen
starb er. Es war hier noch der Bruder Johann. Als Jüngerer erbte er
irgendwelche zwei Geschäftslager und einen hölzernen Schuppen
beim Böhmischen Saal. Zum Glück war er auch Erbe des Familienhauses
Melone. Im Testament von Johann Georg stand nämlich, daß
wenn der ältere Bruder ohne Nachkommen stirbt, fällt der Saal mit
dem Alleen dem jüngeren Bruder zu. Johann Georg wollte so sein
Vermögen für seine Familie erhalten. Aber Josef machte auch dies
zunichte: er ließ er seinem Tod den Besitz auf seine Gattin Barbara
umschreiben. Der Bruder Johann prozessierte dann Jahre lang, vergebens.
Der enttäuschte Johann öffnete in der Melone ein Kaffeehaus
und entsagte sich der Welt. Aber nicht einmal die Barbara freute sich
lange von dem Sieg. Sie machte Bankrott und verkaufte den
Böhmischen Saal an drei Eigentümer. Die Eigentümer überließen der
Barbara den Saal gemietet, die Barbara schaffte es nicht einmal diese
Chance sich zu erhalten, für sie die letzte. Im Böhmischen Saal wechselten
dann eine Reihe von Mietern, zumeist Fremde, bis es dem
Johann in dem unweiten Kaffeehaus das Herz entreißen konnte.
Nochmals versuchte er einen gerichtlichen Weg, erneut wurde er
geschlagen. Es schien schon, daß der Traum vom Johann Georg vom
großen Hotel unter dem Zepter der Pupps in den Trümmern liegt. Die
Tatsache, daß alles anders ausfiel, sieht wie ein Wunder aus...
The SECOND Generation – JOSEF and JOHANN
Johann Georg Pupp, the founding father, was dreaming about a success
by means of which he – a stranger – would have astonished
respectable burghers of Karlovy Vary. About a hotel so big that all
Wallenstein’s company could have stayed there overnight. He himself
was not strong enough for such a task any more. And Franzisca,
who he deeply loved, died. He married again in the early autumn of
his exhausting life. But it was only Franzisca that gave him children:
two sons, Josef and Johann. It was the time of the Napoleonic Wars
and Johann was worried about the future. In spite of that he believed
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that his sons would realize what he himself had not managed to do.
That they would succeed in buying the Saxon Hall and, too, the
God’s Eye House. The first of the Pupp family, Johann Georg, died
at 1810 at the age of only fifty–two years.
The French Revolution helped Karlovy Vary: the instinct of self–
preservation made the French nobility travel as far as possible from
Paris. That was why the relatives of unlucky Louis XVI “discovered”
Karlovy Vary. They were followed by Metternich, the emperor’s
family, the winners over Napoleon as well as Napoleon’s wife.
Famous artists, such as Chopin, Beethoven and, of course, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe, who spent 13 spa seasons here, sipped “miraculous
water” of Karlovy Vary. In those times, the number of visitors
was increasing. What an opportunity for the second generation of
the Pupps! Did they take it?
If Johann George had been alive, he might have turned away from
his sons with pain. Or, at least, from the elder one, Josef. Josef, who
was a confectioner, became the owner of the Bohemian Hall and the
Pupp Alleys. He did not go in his father’s footsteps at all. He married
a butcher’s daughter Barbora Urbanová from the Three Lambs
House and died without having a single descendant. But there was
his brother Johann here. He was younger and so he inherited two
storehouses and wooden sheds standing near the Bohemian Hall.
Fortunately, he inherited the Melon House. It was written in Johann
Georg’s testament that the younger brother would become the
owner of the Hall and the Alleys in case the older brother would die
without having children. In this way, Johann Georg wanted to keep
the property for his family. But Josef frustrated even these plans: he
assigned whole property to his wife Barbora irrespective of his father’s
wish. His brother Johann took Barbora to court. The trial
lasted for years and Johann lost it. Disappointed Johann opened
a café in the Melon House and started to hate the whole world. But
Barbora went soon bankrupt and sold the Bohemian Hall to three
people. The new owners let the hall out to Barbora, but she was not
able to take the chance, the last one for her. The Bohemian Hall was
later let to a number of various people. Johann went to court again
– and lost for the second time. Johann Georg’s dream about a big
hotel under the Pupp’s sceptre seemed to be in ruins. The fact that
everything turned out different seems to be a miracle...
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