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EST:

Limonaadikiosk
Pildiallkiri: Limonaadikiosk Toomemäel umbes 1900. aasta paiku
Autor: Wilhelm Staden (Eesti Rahva Muuseum).
Paigas, kus praegu paikneb kohvik Rotund, asus 1879. aastast väike limonaadikiosk. Selle kohta leidub ajaloolistes materjalides vähe teavet, kuid vanadelt fotodelt võib näha nelinurkse põhiplaaniga hoonet, mida ümbritseb terrass. Millalgi 1880. aastatel paigutati kioski ette tundmatu päritoluga ohvrikivi, mis viidi 1926. aastal oma praegusesse asukohta Musumäe jalamil.
Ajapikku hakkas kiosk tõenäoliselt moodsamatele Tartu kohvikutele alla jääma. 1930. aastal kirjutab Karl August Hindrey Postimehes, et kuigi kiosk seisab Toomel samasugusena, nagu see oli tema lapsepõlves, on miski siiski teistmoodi. „Ta on wäliselt sama wana ja stiilita, kuid koogid ei ole endised ja jääd ei ole seltersi [mineraalvesi] sees. /…/ Ja kui ilus wõiks seal olla kaunilt ehitatud kiosk, awar, mugawate toolidega, hoolikalt sisseseatud letiga, jahedate jookidega, marjadega, kaswõi kohwiga…“ 1939. aastal kirjutati Postimehes plaanist kiosk lammutada ja pakkuda tühjaks jäänud platsi toona kavandatava Peeter Põllu monumendi asukohaks.

Kas kiosk tõesti lammutati või hävis see mingil põhjusel, pole teada. Ka Peeter Põllu monument valmis alles ligi 70 aastat hiljem ning püstitati hoopis Haridus- ja Teadusministeeriumi hoone ette. 1948. aastal asus aga samal kohal Toomemäel kaheksakandiline rotund, mida tunti Toome kioskina. Oma praeguse välimuse ja nime sai kohvik 1994. aastal arhitekti Aini-Merike Remmeli käe all.

ENG:

Lemonade kiosk 
Lemonade kiosk on Toome Hill c. 1900 
Author: Wilhelm Staden (Estonian National Museum) 
In the place where the Rotund café is now, a small lemonade kiosk stood from 1879. While there is
little information about it in historical records, old photographs show a building with a rectangular
floor plan and a terrace around it. In the 1880s, a sacrificial stone of unknown origin was placed in
front of the kiosk. The stone was moved to its present location at the foot of Musumägi in 1926. 
Over time, the kiosk probably began to lose ground to more modern cafés of Tartu. In 1930, Karl
August Hindrey wrote in the Postimees that although the kiosk still stood on Toome Hill as it had in
his childhood, something was different. “On the outside, it is as old and unstylish as before, but the
cakes are not the same as before, and there’s no ice in the seltzer. /…/ And how nice a beautifully
built kiosk would be there, spacious, with comfortable chairs, a carefully furnished counter, cool
drinks, berries, even coffee…” In 1939, the Postimees wrote about a plan to demolish the kiosk and
offer the vacant site for the then-planned monument to Peeter Põld.  
 
It is not known whether the kiosk was actually demolished then or it was destroyed otherwise. The
monument to Peeter Põld was erected in front of the Ministry of Education and Research building
not until nearly 70 years later. In 1948, however, an octagonal rotunda known as the Toome kiosk
stood in the place of the lemonade kiosk on Toome Hill. The current café was designed by architect
Aini-Merike Remmel and got its present appearance and name in 1994.