Lorenz Caviezel

Lorenz Caviezel was a sugar baker from Riga in today's Latvia and son of Johann Caviezel.

Caviezel, whose family had emigrated from the German Empire to the Russian Empire in the late 18th century and founded a confectioner's shop in Riga, settled down in Tallinn, Reval, and opened the first Pikk Street on 23 September 1806 Pastry shop. Although Caviezel and his family withdrew to Riga in 1835 for commercial reasons, his pastry shop was taken over by Georg Johann Stude (1839-1919), who founded the still existing Café "Maiasmokk" (German: "Schleckmaul") , which in turn laid the foundations for AS Kalev, today the largest confectionery manufacturer in Estonia.

The Caviezel, a Romansh race still widely used in Graubünden in Switzerland, split up into a Catholic and a Reformed branch after the Reformation. The Reformed branch emigrated from Reischen to the German Reich in the second half of the 18th century and succeeded after 1750 as a sugar baker in Berlin, Leipzig and Anklam. Johann Caviezel (1764-1824), the father of Lorenz, worked in the paternity pastry shop in Anklam until 1787, and in 1796 he took over a confectionery, also founded by emigrants from Graubünden, in Riga. In 1805, he bought the Rigahaus in Chur as his retirement age together with his brother Heinrich. He died in Chur in 1824.

In Estonia, the Caviezel family is still present today, as Kalev also dates its origin in its logo on 1806. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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