Pinkenburg

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Former Pinkenburg Warthaus, now a restaurant
Hannoversche Landwehr and Pinkenburg, shown in a map of the city of Hanover by Ernest Eberhard Braun from 1762

The Pinkenburg in Hanover in the district of Groß-Buchholz was a 1341 first mentioned and 1387 broken waiting the Hanoverian Landwehr . Over time, it developed into a waiting room, which over the centuries changed from a customs post to a restaurant. Today's restaurant Pinkenburg is located on Pinkenburger Strasse near the corner of Pinkenburger Gang. Both streets were named after the Pinkenburg.

Surname

The origin of the name Pinkenburg is based on the fact that the Warthaus was part of the Landwehr, which, when it was built, served to protect against the rival diocese of Hildesheim . Back then, alarms were given by hitting a metal rod in the event of an attack or fire. This was referred to as "pink" derived from the sound. According to the German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm from 1854, "pink" stands for "to produce the tone 'pink'" or "hammer, knock on the ambos like the blacksmith". The word ping, which is used today in connection with sonar or data transmission , can also be etymologically derived from the old German “pink”.

Probably it was the Anglo-Saxons born in the English-speaking world and the 19th century is there in mid first described as to produce a sharp sound like that of a bullet striking a sheet of metal ( "produce a sharp sound, similar to the one on a metal plate hitting projectile ").

history

In the middle of the 14th century, against the background of the War of the Lüneburg Succession, a Landwehr was built as an advanced fortification system with guard towers and houses to protect Hanover . The Landwehr probably surrounded the whole of Hanover, only parts of the forest area of ​​the Eilenriede have survived . The Pinkenburg was located on the 8 km long section of the "Lüneburger Landwehr" created in 1341 along the river Schiffgraben . It led from the former Warthaus tax thief in the Eilenriede to the northeast to the Altwarmbüchener Moor . The course corresponded roughly to today's Messeschnellweg .

The Pinkenburg observation tower was initially built on this piece of the Landwehr for military reasons. The only bridge over the moat was located on it, in an area several kilometers long between the moor and the waiting room for tax thief. The bridge at the Pinkenburg was secured with four barriers and locked at night. Later, the Pinkenburg served more as a customs post, as beer and wood in particular were subject to high import duties.

The Pinkenburg around 1910
same picture as greeting card of the "Gastwirtschaft zur Pinkenburg by F. Lüssenhop";
Postcard , Verlag Otto Kamm, Linden
Same angle in 2017

From 1689 the Pinkenburg became a farm as a Brinkitzerstelle with seven Hanoverian acres of land. The earliest settlement of Groß-Buchholz began from here. Like the other guard towers and houses of the Landwehr, the Pinkenburg also acquired more of a gastronomic character over the centuries. In the 19th century it was a village mug and until 1865 the only restaurant in Groß-Buchholz. From 2001 it was called a “beer and wine restaurant”, from 2015 it described itself as a “steak and schnitzel house”. The restaurant has been closed since 2017, the building is still empty in summer 2018. Today the Pinkenburg is in the south of the Hanover district of Groß-Buchholz . There, the Pinkenburger Gang street is reminiscent of the control room that was abandoned in 1387.

See also

literature

  • Pinkenburger Kreis, Friedrich-Wilhelm Busse: Groß-Buchholz. Pictures and stories from days gone by . Horb am Neckar 1992, p. 11

Web links

Commons : Pinkenburger Straße (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. pink. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889, Sp. 1860 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 53.8 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 24.3"  E