Packhof

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The Braunschweiger Packhof around 1900
The Mündener Packhof on the Werra

A packing yard was a warehouse and storage facility operated in many cities, both for local trading companies and for temporary storage for the transit of goods . In the packing yards, for example, goods that were delivered or to be transported on could be stored by horse-drawn carriage, on the ship or by rail . Sometimes the areas of the packing stations were also used for products and makes for which the owners did not maintain their own warehouse.

As a rule, the customs and tax formalities applicable to the respective country and other legally regulated controls were also carried out in the packing stations .

In the packing yards, as a public defeat, goods could temporarily be deposited untaxed until they were removed or transported from there. Such warehouses corresponded to the duty-free areas in free ports and had the advantage for the traders that although fees had to be paid for the storage time, but not the often higher import taxes .

In earlier times, indirect taxes , which were levied on legally specified goods, played a much greater role for both the state and the cities than, for example, in the second half of the 20th century. If the taxable goods had not already been recorded when they were manufactured or when they were imported into the respective city, they ultimately had to be taxed at the Packhof. For example, at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the Royal Main Tax Office, which was integrated in the Hanoverian Packhof , under the direction of the Chief Tax Inspector, levied taxes for both the state and the city.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwig Hoerner : The new Packhof building on Artilleriestraße, before 1866 , in ders .: Hanover in early photographs. 1848–1910 , with two illustrations, Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 156f.
  2. Harold Hammer-Schenk : The Packhof in Hanover , in ders., Günther Kokkelink (Ed.): Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 391ff.
  3. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Sign of the Royal Main Tax Office from the Packhof in Artilleriestraße. Painted wood. Around 1860 , in: Hanover Archive , sheet H 19