Lucas-Pitter

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Lucas-Pitter,
silhouette around 1870

Lucas-Pitter (* 1797 in Herkenrath ; † March 2, 1886 in Gronau (Bergisch Gladbach) ) was a Gladbach original . His real name was Peter Lucas .

Life

The Gronauer Mühle towards the end of the 19th century; Opaque color painting by Wilhelm Scheiner

Lucas was the oldest of five children - three boys and two girls - of the married couple Johann and Elisabeth Lucas, who initially lived in Herkenrath and ran a farm there. In the early 1820s, the Lucas family leased the Gronauer Mühle and moved the entire family from Herkenrath to Gronau. The father died on January 23, 1842; the mother's death followed on March 15, 1851.

Only Philipp, one of the three sons, married and moved to Cologne with his wife . The other four remained unmarried and settled down in the mill together. Together they ran the mill and the associated farm . The women were responsible for the house and the money. It is said that the siblings stuck together, but also often argued among themselves. All four were fond of alcohol. Peter (Lukas-Pitter) was alderman for the city of Bergisch Gladbach for six years , although he is said to never have made a stroke of the pen.

The original

The rogue showed up in Lucas at a young age. His mother sent him on a regular basis with the Kiepe on the back filled with butter and eggs over land to the so-called trade. One day he also had to take some ducks with him. After walking from door to door in vain and no one wanted to buy the ducks, he just let them fly. At home the mother did research: “What did you sell?” (What did you sell?). Answer by Lucas: "Joh, what sohl ech sell han, he es et Jeld" (Yes, what should I have sold, here is the money). But that was not much, said the mother and was not satisfied with the poor result. She asked what the reason was. Lucas growled: "The ducks are always flejen jejangen on och e few Hohnder" (The ducks went flying for me and also a few chickens). Annoyed, the mother said to the father: "Dä Jong es esu domm, dat me in si Lävve nirjens can check out" (the boy is so stupid that you can't send him anywhere in his life). Lucas heard the words with pleasure and was pleased that he no longer had to walk with the box.

When he got older, he went to the various restaurants in the city every day, drinking regularly when he was thirsty. On one such occasion, Lucas was sitting alone at the table with a stranger in the Paas restaurant - they were called “et Bergershüsje” . He took a piece of white paper and scissors and cut out Lucas in silhouette . Then he made the cut-out part black and gave it to him. Another time he sat with a few other people on the narrow bench at the “ Wiser-Wilhelm ” and talked. Then the rector Jakobs came in, who was also teaching catechism at the school . He wanted to sit down on the bench. But Lucas growled: “Dat chamber nit ushale!” (You can't stand that.) The clergy said benevolently: “If you have as much space in heaven as here on the bench, then you can be very happy.” Then escaped it Lucas: "See, Här, when dat de janze bliss can set it, dat me nohmolens ominously, because I nüs demetten ze dunn han!" (Say, Lord, if that's the whole bliss, that you can't even can sit properly, then I don't want anything to do with it.) There have been many such stories. They made Lucas the original that popularly stayed alive.

Brandy
brand Lucas-Pitter around 1890

The Gronauer distillery

The innkeeper Johann Odenthal, who was mayor of Bergisch Gladbach from 1921 to 1928, leased the Gronauer Mühle in 1883. Lucas and his last sister who were still alive were able to stay in the mill until their deaths. Odenthal ran the Gronauer distillery in the Gronauer Hof, in which he distilled a schnapps called Lucas-Pitter in memory of Lucas . This tradition was later continued by the Kenfenheuer distillery on Hauptstrasse in Bergisch Gladbach.

literature

  • Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt Gladbach - The history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian times , Bergisch Gladbach 1964, p. 508

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lucas-Pitter, Brandy Brand and Berg. Original , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis district archive, archive.nrw.de, accessed on October 11, 2019
  2. ^ A b c d e Anton Jux: Lucas-Pitter , in: Bergischer Heimat-Kalender 1934 p. 66–74
personal data
SURNAME Lucas-Pitter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucas, Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Original from Bergisch Gladbach
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Herkenrath
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1886
Place of death Gronau (Bergisch Gladbach)