The first pavilion was opened on August 20, 1799 by the French Augustin Lancelot de Quatre Barbes. Two years later, in May 1801, the confectioner Richard Ruben from Graubünden became the operator. In 1809 he left the pavilion to his brother Donat Ruben, who ran it until his death in 1828.
Johannes Sprecher, who, like his predecessors, came from Switzerland, had a handsome pavilion built in the classical style in 1835. After his death in 1844, the pavilion was first taken over by Spokesman's son-in-law Franz Dürst, and then from 1848 to 1874 by his son Heinrich Sprecher.
According to a design by the Hamburg architect Martin Haller, the tenant Johannes Schwarting had the existing pavilion rebuilt and expanded in 1874 and 1876. [2]
Due to an extension of the Jungfernstieges, a new building was built in 1900 based on a design by Wilhelm Hauers. The massive building with polished granite columns and glazed Mettlach stones was nicknamed the "tiled stove".
On June 9, 1914, a new building designed by Hamburg architects Johann Gottlieb Rambatz and Wilhelm Jollasse was opened as the fifth building. During the Third Reich, swing concerts were held there for a long time, although music was frowned upon by the National Socialists. In 1942 the pavilion was destroyed during a bombing raid.
The semicircular sixth building with a flat roof that exists today was built in 1952–1953 according to plans by the architect Ferdinand Streb on the preserved basement and rebuilt in 1992–1994. Source: Wikipedia
Due to its eventful history, the Alsterpavillon is now a listed building. In 1799, the Alsterpavillon at Jungfernstieg 1 was the first ice cream parlor in Germany to be opened. At that time "frozen" was sold in an area only 13 x 9 meters.
Since Jungfernstieg 1 became increasingly popular as a promenade, the first Alster pavilion quickly became too small, so that a larger one was built in 1841. But as early as 1875, the Hamburg architect Martin Haller, who was popular at the time, completed the third pavilion. Only 25 years later, around 1900, the fourth pavilion was built. This was also called the "tiled stove" because of its tasteless construction and only lasted 14 years. Shortly before the start of the First World War, the fifth pavilion celebrated its opening. The architects Rambatz and Jollasse provided the plans for this pavilion with a pointed roof.