Montaldo House, Tortenhaus
Montaldo House, Tortenhaus
Original function:
restaurant / confectionery / café
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Address:
Strada Republicii 14
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
GPS coordinates:
45.6425174978, 25.5911285828
History
At the beginning of the 19th century, the people of Brassó consumed sweets mainly of Turkish origin, bought mainly from Greek and Vlach traders. In 1822, the town council authorised the sale of sweets, coffee and lemonade on the lower promenade (the formerly landscaped area from the present Post Office to the Modarom shopping centre). In 1838, a café was built on the promenade near the gate on Monastery Street, which was taken over in 1850 by Josef Montaldo (1825-1894), an Italian-born master confectioner.
Montaldo's business flourished, so in 1863 he asked the the architect Peter Bartesch to rebuild his residence on Gate Street. The new three-storey building was known in Brassó as the Tortenhaus, because it had a confectionery on the ground floor, known mainly for its cakes. However, Montaldo later went bankrupt and died in great poverty at the age of 69. Between 1895 and 1900 it was the Baross Hotel.
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