Joachim von Lohe

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Joachim von Lohe (* around 1500 in Hamburg , † around 1570 in Altona ) was a German fisherman and innkeeper , whose restaurant is said to have given the city of Altona its name.

Life

Joachim von Lohe came from the Grevenhof island between Billwerder and Moorfleet , which had belonged to Hamburg since 1460. The islanders worked as fishermen and on a modest scale as farmers. Two main arms of the Norderelbe converged at Grevenhof. The city of Hamburg intended to change the course of the flow and had a stack built there. In the period that followed, severe storm surges occurred on the north bank of the island, which may have been influenced by the construction work. The islanders, including Joachim von Lohe, then left Grevenhof and moved to the mainland.

In 1536 Joachim von Lohe asked Count Ernst to be allowed to build a house on a road between Hamburg and Neumühlen near the Grenzbach. The count also granted him the right to be a pitcher . Von Lohe was also allowed to brew red beer there , which was considered inexpensive and easy to produce, but not very durable. Since the city of Hamburg had increased taxes on breweries in 1535, beer prices rose there. Von Lohe, whose inn was outside Hamburg, was therefore probably hoping for visitors from Hamburg to whom he could sell cheap beer. The Hamburg councilors Vincent Möller and Johann Rodenburg then visited the innkeeper and complained to the Vogt von Ottensen , who represented the Count of Holstein-Pinneberg . In doing so, they referred to Barbarossa's charter from 1189, according to which no castle was allowed to be built within two miles of Hamburg. Hans Barner, Drost from Pinneberg, intervened in the disputes and said that the count was free to decide how many houses would be built on his land.

The parties to the dispute then inspected the jug together. The allegation is said to have been made that the inn is “all too close” to Hamburg or the Grenzbach. Peter von Lohe, a grandson of Joachim von Lohe, recorded this in a 1602 report. He went on to say that his grandfather made the name “Altona” out of it and has since used it as the name for his mug. From today's perspective, this claim is not correct. The place name probably comes from an already existing name or a term that was later expressed, such as the nearby Grenzbach Pepermölenbek called "Altenau" . The place name can be found for the first time a year later in invoices from the Hamburg finance department.

Since he was later involved in disputes over fishing rights between fishermen from Hamburg and Altona, von Lohe apparently continued to work in this trade. In reports on this it is recorded that von Lohe and Friedrich Brand were the first to violate a Hamburg ban and founded a fishing company with him.

After Joachim von Lohe's death, his son Hans von Lohe apparently inherited the fishing equipment and worked as a fisherman. The second son Jürgen von Lohe inherited the inn. In Pinneberg's official register from 1591, it can be read that Jürgen von Lohe paid the excise for 181 tons of beer from Hamburg and Lübeck , which he sold from Easter 1591 to Easter 1592. The grandson Joachim von Lohes took over the inn in the third generation and wrote the report on the history of the inn.

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SURNAME Lohe, Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fisherman and innkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH around 1570
Place of death Altona