Linden Tower

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The former windmill on the Lindener mountain is called today restaurant used

The Lindener Windmühle in Hanover , also called the Lindener Tower , is a listed former windmill on the Lindener Berg , which sits on top of a waiting tower that was built in the Middle Ages . It is the oldest surviving structure in Linden .

The mill is around 90 meters above the ground on Lindener Berg, Hanover's " local mountain ", has the address Am Lindener Berge 29 and 29a in the Linden-Mitte district of Hanover and is now used as a restaurant with a beer garden.

history

Only a few years after the conversion into a mill, the publisher Caspar Merian took the Linden windmill as the point de vue of his Merian copperplate engraving “ F. FBL Statt Hannover ”; Created in
1654 together with Conrad Buno
The structural situation around the windmill with a projection of the kitchen garden pavilion (left) into the walling of the Linden mountain cemetery ;
monochrome lithograph by Ludwig Hemmer published by August Harre & Co. , around 1911

After the market settlement Hannover in the 14th century with a Landwehr as part of the fortification of Hanover had secured against enemy raids, people built in 1392 on the bald summit of Lindener mountain as part of the Hanoverian Landwehr a waiting from which they access roads could overlook Hanover. With the limestone broken in the quarry of the mountain , a guard tower was built, which promised the residents at the foot of the Lindener Berg greater security for more than a quarter of a millennium.

After the Thirty Years' War , the sovereign , Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , ordered the old tower to be converted into a modern Dutch windmill with a rotating upper part in 1651 . The mill saved the farmers of the surrounding villages from having to go to the Calenberger mill near Schulenburg . The Duke then ordered his subjects in the parish of Limmer and in the villages of Letter and Harenberg to have their grain ground in the forced mill in Linden. However, this led to complaints from the - official - miller of the Blumenau water mill in the Calenberger Land , employed by the Blumenau office , who subsequently lost a substantial part of his previous income.

In the course of the industrialization of the Kingdom of Hanover , the windmill on Lindener Berg, previously owned by the state, was privatized in 1854 . Mill operations were only stopped in 1927 during the Weimar Republic .

The tower after the fire, 2019

At the end of 2019, a technical defect in the lighting led to a fire on the tower, in which an outer wooden balustrade burned down. The fire brigade prevented the fire from spreading to the historic building, the statics of which were not damaged by the fire.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Lindener Windmühle (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Mills. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 450f.
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, the lettering on the photo
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Berg. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 118f .; as well as Linden-Mitte in the addendum : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 22f.
  4. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Am Lindener Berge , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 81
  5. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: 1636–1802. in: Hanover Chronicle : from the beginning to the present: numbers, dates, facts . P. 52 (Google Books). Editors: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein. Schlütersche, 1991, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: The Limmer windmill. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 50 (1996), pp. 259-274; here: p. 259
  7. ↑ Defective lighting triggered a fire at the Lindener Turm in Hanover in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 25, 2019
  8. ↑ Fire at the Lindener Turm: Operators are urgently looking for craftsmen in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 24, 2019
  9. ↑ "Lindener Turm" beer garden partially burned down at ndr.de on November 24, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '43.4 "  N , 9 ° 42' 18.9"  E