Green Hunter (Riddagshausen)

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The "Green Hunter" in 2011.
Western part of the Buchhorst with "Grünem Jäger" (right, along the street). The former Reichsjägerhof "Hermann Göring" is visible on the left at the edge of the picture .

The Grüne Jäger in the Braunschweig district of Riddagshausen is now a restaurant , the origin of which goes back to a forest restaurant that was founded around 1740. The complex, which consists of several buildings, is located on the western edge of the Buchhorst , a 250- hectare nature reserve in the east of Braunschweig. The Buchhorst used to be the hunting ground of the Brunswick dukes . The "Green Hunter" is now a listed building .

history

The "Green Hunter" around 1850.

The beginnings of the "Green Hunter" go back to the period 1738-1744. At that time, a bailiff named Selig first set up a shooting range with an arbor in the Buchhorst . Later he laid out gardens and built a grotto and a gardener's house, in which visitors were also entertained. The name "Grüner Jäger" has been used since around 1760. After Selig died, the inn and everything that belonged to it fell to his heirs, who then sold it in 1761 to the monastery council office of Riddagshausen monastery. This in turn leased the property several times in the following period. In the lease from 1777, among other things, the following are listed as belonging to the “Green Hunter”: a house, a stable, a grotto, a long arbor, a shooting arbor, a bowling alley and a bakery . In 1826 some buildings were rebuilt. The inn was already a popular destination back then.

When the Braunschweig – Königslutter railway was set up in 1872 , the shooting range had to give way to the route. In 1885 the railway set up the “Grüner Jäger” stop. Further renovation and expansion measures followed in 1897 and between 1934 and 1935. During the Second World War , the site served as an auxiliary hospital , and after the end of the war it was used as accommodation for displaced persons and refugees .

Famous guests

Stendhal

Stendhal in 1840.

During the occupation of the city and duchy of Braunschweig by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in the years 1807–1813, there were also numerous French administrative officials in Braunschweig, which was the capital of the Oker department . One of them was the then 24-year-old writer Marie-Henri Beyle, who later called himself Stendhal . He recorded his stay in Braunschweig from November 1806 to December 1808 in his diary . During this time, Stendhal liked to go on trips to the “Green Hunter” with friends and acquaintances. The "Green Hunter" was Stendhal u. A. because of his enthusiastic admiration for the young "Mina de Griesheim" (ie Wilhelmine von Griesheim [1786–1861], daughter of the Brunswick general August Heinrich Ernst von Griesheim ) unforgettable. In his diary entries he mostly called his love, which was ultimately not heard, just "Minette". Only a few months later, in December 1808, Stendhal left Braunschweig for good. In 1834, 27 years later, he began a novel , but did not finish it. As a title he had intended «Le Chasseur vert» ("The Green Hunter"). The fragment was published under this title in 1855, 13 years after his death. In 1894, a version expanded by Jean de Mitty , but still incomplete, under the new title Lucien Leuwen . In this novel, a restaurant called "Chasseur vert" occurs several times.

Wilhelm Raabe

Wilhelm Raabe , 1911

Between 1882 and 1892, the writer Wilhelm Raabe, who lives in Braunschweig, was a frequent guest in the “Green Hunter”. Raabe was a member of various sociable associations, including the homeland association " The honest clothing sellers of Braunschweig ". Starting in 1882, this group hiked regularly every Thursday on a path known today as the “Kleidersellerweg” from the Riddagshausen monastery to the inn in the Buchhorst. In 1906 Raabe celebrated his 75th birthday in the "Jäger". The “Raabe Room” is still there today in memory of the writer in the “Grüner Jäger”.

Literary reception

Wilhelm Raabe made the “Green Hunter” the setting for his story Pfister's mill . A watermill is said to have been located nearby , one of many at the time on the honeycomb (Schunter) . The work is considered the first German environment - novel .

Closer surroundings

Located east of Braunschweig city center at the Ebertallee in Buchhorst, is the "Green Hunter" only slightly from the 1145 founded, former Cistercian - Kloster Riddagshausen . Only a few hundred meters across the street, on the other side of the street, is the Reichsjägerhof "Hermann Göring" , which was built between 1934 and 1935 for Hermann Göring , one of the leading Nazi politicians . During the construction phase of the Reichsjägerhof, the buildings of the "Green Hunter" were also adapted to the half-timbered style of the Nazi building.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig , Part 2, p. 248
  2. ↑ a b c d e Moderhack, Müller: Chronicle of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein from May 1961 to March 1962. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 1962. Volume 43, p. 200.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all the localities of the German federal states , First Department, Naumburg 1843, p. 251
  4. ↑ “The Green Hunter, an inn located in Buchhorst and still visited by the Braunschweig residents, belongs to the Neuhof community. There is also the forest botanical garden. ” , August Lambrecht : Das Herzogthum Braunschweig: Geographically, historically and statistically presented for use in home and school , Wolfenbüttel 1863, p. 337
  5. ↑ Original version of Stendhal's diary 1806–1810 (in French)
  6. ^ André François-Poncet : "Mais le but favori des promenades de Stendhal et de ses amis, c'est l 'établissement à l'enseigne du Chasseur Vert (To the green hunter), situé à courte distance de la ville, ...", Stendhal à Brunswick (1807–1808) , Imprimerie Allier 1943, p. 91
  7. ↑ «… cette âme du nord telle que je n'en ai jamais vue en France ni en Italie…», letter of April 30, 1807
  8. ^ Robert Soupault: Stendhal Intime , Les Sept Couleurs 1975, pp. 290-291
  9. ↑ Stendhal: Confessions of an I-Man, Diary from Braunschweig, Chapter 44
  10. ^ Victor Del Litto: La création romanesque chez Stendhal , Geneva 1985, p. 148: "Je fais un roman en 2 vol. in-8, intitulé le Chasseur vert… »(letter of September 27, 1835 to his sister Pauline)
  11. ↑ Pierre Michel (ed.): Quand Mirbeau faisait le «nègre»…, Éditions du Boucher, Société Octave Mirbeau, 2004, p. 1061, FN 6
  12. ^ André François-Poncet : "Le café du Chasseur Vert, tel qu'il est dépeint dans Leuwen, n'est pas autre chose, en effet, que la transposition aux portes de la ville, ou Lucien est en garnison, de l ' auberge voisine de Brunswick, où Stendhal, en compagnie des… », Stendhal en Allemagne , Hachette 1967, p. 69
  13. ^ Katrin Hillgruber: Wilhelm Raabe: The misunderstood Utopist , on Deutschlandfunk on October 3, 2015
  14. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Zeitzeichen: Stadt und Land Braunschweig 1930-1945 , Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-925268-21-9 , p. 134f

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '47.7 "  N , 10 ° 35' 6.5"  E