Pielkentafel

The pielkentafel (actually ax table ) was an old entertainment game that was played in the Königsberg community gardens, among other places .

The preserved Pielkentafel of the old town (Königsberg) from 1649 is 15 m long and 60 cm wide. Two opposing players threw round game pieces or “Speciesthaler” lengthways so that they hurled the opposing stones away.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z - a city dictionary . Leer 1972

literature

• Alexander Treichel : From the Pielchen or Bell table . In: Old Prussian Monthly Journal 34 (1897), pp. 127–152 , 240–276 , 584–602 ; 35 (1898), pp. 123-144 , 314-333 (addendum); 36 (1899), pp. 274-286 (Addendum II).

Web links

• Economic encyclopedia
• Beilkespiel in Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 2. Altenburg 1857, p. 501. (zeno.org)
• Beilketafel in Adelung's Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect (2nd edition Leipzig 1793–1801), Vol. 1, Sp. 820.