Kitchen mail
Kitchen mail was the popular name for a mail service to supply the farm. They were closed country carriages that, like the neat but open freight stagecoaches, changed horses at all stations. These kitchen posts were accompanied by a conductor who was responsible for ensuring that they were transported quickly and carefully. In the "Collection of ordinances and tenders " for the Kingdom of Hanover from 1821 it says: "The traveling mail coming from Lüneburg (3 times a week), as well as the Hannoversche Küchenpost, should take the first passenger Ever from Haarburg to Hamburg according to the departure regulations leave anytime. "
Kitchen posts were popular with the thrifty travelers because of their coverage and lower postage. They went to Hanover, Schwerin, Berlin and Braunschweig, among others. From Braunschweig it went on with the Saxon Yellow Coach to Leipzig via Prague to Vienna.
Braunschweiger Küchenpost
In 1706, Duke Anton Ulrich (1684–1714) of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel commissioned the heir-postmaster general Graf von Platen to negotiate a private mail, the later “kitchen mail”, with Heinrich Georg Henneberg . The entire postal system in Braunschweig-Lüneburg with the Wolfenbüttel part had been left to the Count of Platen.
So far, a city-Braunschweiger messenger mail went to Hamburg that did not meet the Duke's needs for fresh food and luxury foods. This messenger mail to Hamburg was canceled in 1709. A tariff was announced at which letters, parcels and passengers were to be transported to and from Hamburg by the "kitchen mail" that was now set up. The post office clerk Heinrich Georg Henneberg was appointed to handle the kitchen mail. For Hamburg the Kgl. Prussia. Commissioner C. Wolf is part of the job.
The clearance took place at Gördelingerstraße 44, in the house of Henneberg. In 1743 the move was made to the Princely Post House in Breiten Strasse (after the road was rebuilt, Kohlmarkt Ass300, today Poststrasse (furniture store)).
The kitchen mail drove to Blankenburg in 1717, from 1722 with connection to the Kursächsische Post to Leipzig, the so-called "yellow coach". In 1732, the Brunswick kitchen mail became part of the Landespost and the Hamburg contact point became a Brunswick post office. After disputes with the Hanover kitchen post office, both parties decided on the “Chur and Princely Braunschweig Communios Post”. The trips were doubled and profit and loss were distributed in a ratio of 3 (Hanover) to 2 (Braunschweig). After an interruption at the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the post office in Hamburg was closed in 1835.
literature
- Henry Bade: 333 years of the Braunschweigische Post, 1535–1867 . Karl Pfankuch & CO, Braunschweig, 1960.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Matthias: " About Post and Post-Shelf " 1st volume, self-published, Berlin, Posen, Bromberg, commissioned by Ernst Siegfried Mittler, 1832
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi: "The foundations of the power and happiness of states", Volume 1 - 1760
