Countless Dresden families have celebrated here. Now the landlord himself has reason to toast: his Leubnitzer Höhe restaurant has been in the family for 60 years.
Dresden – Countless Dresden families have celebrated birthdays, silver weddings or youth consecration here. Now the landlord Rainer Blode (69) has reason to toast himself: his restaurant “Leubnitzer Höhe” has been in the family for 60 years.
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Landlady Margitta Blode cooks for the guests of the “Leubnitzer Höhe”. © Eric Münch
“On July 1, 1961, my father Walter bought the restaurant, which looks back on over a hundred years of history,” says Blode. “He ran it until 1972. Unfortunately, he died very early, at the age of 54. I took over the restaurant from my mother in 1982 with my wife Margitta.”
During the GDR era, the privately run restaurant wasn’t exactly inundated with delicious ingredients – the Blode family’s magic word was “procurement acrobatics”.
Not only regulars, rummy rounds, cone brothers and ladies’ parties thanked it – celebrities also appreciate the home-style cuisine with giant cabbage rolls, leg of lamb and sauerbraten in the extremely well-kept restaurant (200 indoor seats, 50 outdoor).
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Senior (71) threatened with knife in the large garden: He ignores the perpetrator!
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Berlin’s former governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen (79) has already returned here, as have ex-Federal Defense Minister Volker Rühe (78) and numerous dynamo kickers. On New Year’s Eve 2015, the mood cannon Achim Mentzel († 2016) had one of his last three appearances in the “Leubnitzer Höhe” – four days later he died of an undetected heart defect.
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Dealing with the celebrities doesn’t bother Blode – “From the fall of the Wall until 2005, I also ran the catering on the Seidnitz horse racing track,” reveals the landlord. The stars and starlets cavorted there.
It is uncertain who will take over his “Leubnitzer Höhe”. Bode: “It won’t be my daughter. But I’m still there for my guests. I’ll see everything else.”
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