At home/ on the road
Restaurant EuroShell - Liza Beutler
Five minutes northeast of Parks is the EuroShell restaurant. This has probably not existed for two years. However, the building is still standing and you can still see or
guess some of the things that used to happen here or what was on offer. I want to explain the restaurant to you from my perspective, describe the property and start by
saying that we are on the building when we come from the parks that we see a gas station sign, which is in front of the restaurant. Behind it is probably the back entrance,
which is overgrown and you can't walk up the stairs. Next to it is a full trash can, which has also been taken over by the plants. If I take a few steps to the left, there are two
signs under the EuroShell restaurant. On the one hand, there is the sign "Futtern wie bei Muttern - Frühstück ab 6:00 Uhr" and then very large sign below it, under the windows
"Gutbürgerliche Küche". At the top, next to the restaurant sign is a Weihenstephan beer advertisement. If I go further, to the left, there is actually not much at first, but you can
easily peek through the windows. You can guess what it must have looked like there. There are old tiles that have a brownish to light beige gradient. Probably from the seventies. On the ceiling you can still see ceiling lights with a light yellow to dark yellow ornamental glass. In the center of the room I see a pile of trash that has been swept up.
From this side, you can see more movable walls demarcating the space and a smaller one in the front. And if I go further, there is a small indentation and the one window is
hammered shut. If I go further, I have to go all the way to the exit from the Shell gas station and circle the building once. This side is relatively well overgrown, from bushes,
from box trees, from ivy and other plants. Now I come to one side, where there is a parking lot and probably the former kitchen entrance. You can see here milk-glazed
glasses and unfortunately can ́t look inside, only in the one corner window and you can see a small kitchenette, a linoleum floor and two fire extinguishers. If I continue to walk
along the driveway or exit from the Shell gas station, I still have to make a big turn because I can't walk directly along the house. Now I am on the property of the Shell gas
station. You can't really see that there was a restaurant here. It is very overgrown and I can't see into the one window at all. You can only see a clue that, if you look closely, you
can make out. There it says once the Weihenstephan advertising and once very large "beer garden" on a dark red background. Now I come to the main entrance of the
restaurant. When I stand in front of it, there is a large sign right next to the entrance door, where Monday to Thursday, and Thursday was subsequently stuck on it, it says
6:00 to 22:00, Saturday closed, Sunday day off. Owner was R. Busching, the phone number was 040256363, fax 0402508940, www.restaurant-euroshell.de.
Other than that, you can find a doorbell and a door hook to keep the door open. And the house number one. Now if I go on to the right, next to the house, I come into the
beer garden, where you've already seen the signage from the outside. The beer garden is about 20 square meters, also overgrown with ivy and in the middle is a steel pipe,
which was probably once the holder for a parasol. When I go back out now, I walk along the left side of the house and then I'm at the one corner where we started. But from the
other side and from there you can look in the building again and see the barrier that I could see from the other side. And that that's just a relatively small space, but the rest of
it is very, very large. It was a very open space.