Hop pole

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Hop poles and columns in harvested hop gardens in the Hallertau
Hop stalks in the Sandhausen hop educational path

Hop poles are called in the hop - growing areas poles used. Old North German names for it are also Hopstiffel or Hoppenrik .

Hop poles are primarily made from softwood , for which spruce wood is mostly used. But the wood of sweet chestnut and robinia is also in demand. The poles are up to 10 or 12 meters long and usually have a diameter of 7 to 12 centimeters. Because the European Union is banning more and more wood preservatives , concrete rods are now being used.

Weak trunks or pieces of trunk on which the wire or string tensions on which the hops loops are attached are called hop pillars or hop masts . These are usually impregnated in order to make them more permanent - in the past often by kyanization . However, according to the waste wood ordinance , bars treated with wood preservatives fall into waste wood category A4 . They are therefore not approved for further material use.

As essential elements of the so-called hop gardens, hop poles and pillars shape the landscape in the large hop-growing areas.

Others

The building of the German Hop Museum is designed in the form of a hop garden, whereby the roof and support structure are reminiscent of the juxtaposition of the hop columns

Occasionally, hop poles are also objects for art events, for example in 2010 in Spalt and 2011 in Pfettrach . The building of the German Hop Museum in Wolnzach is designed in the form of a hop garden, with the roof and support structure deliberately reminding of the juxtaposition of the hop columns.

In a figurative sense, a tall, thin female person is sometimes jokingly referred to as a hop pole .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sweet chestnut - used by Forst Service International; Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  2. ^ HG Richter, C. Waitkus: The Robinia and its wood . BFH information sheet. Federal Research Center for Forestry and Wood Management (BFH), Hamburg 2001, p. 3 ( PDF ( Memento from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ↑ Reinhold Erlbeck, Ilse Haseder, Gerhard KF Stinglwagner: The great cosmos of forest and forest lexicon . DVD-ROM edition. United Soft Media Verlag, Munich, and Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8032-1770-7 .
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Indestructible. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Material use. In: Martin Kaltschmitt, Hans Hartmann, Hermann Hofbauer (Hrsg.): Energy from biomass. Basics, techniques and procedures . Springer Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85094-6 , p. 147.
  6. ↑ Günter Reichel: Beer, wine and hop sticks art. Contribution to the Spalter city anniversary combined art and pleasure - meeting of the queens . In: Roth-Hilpoltsteiner Volkszeitung , online version at www.nordbayern.de from August 30, 2010; Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  7. ↑ -hel-: New attraction in Pfettrach: Colorful hop sticks . In: Münchner Merkur , online version from July 4, 2011; Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  8. ↑ Information on the history of the German Hop Museum on the museum's website; Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  9. ↑ cf. z. B. Bertelsmann dictionary of the German language , quoted here at www.wissen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wissen.de