Tax thief

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Steuerndieb in Hannover is the name of an originally in the 14th century during the Hanoverian Landwehr built warden house and a contemporary restaurants and hotels . The location on the street of the same name in the Groß-Buchholz district of Hanover is the northeastern edge of the Eilenriede , on the border with the Zoo district in a curve of the road between the Lister Tower and the Hanover Zoological Garden, which was formerly paved for the Eilenriederennen .

history

Around 1900: A little girl with grandparents at the Bauerngraben on Kleestrasse with a tax thief ;
Postcard No. 835 from Karl F. Wunder
Also around 1900 at the same place: the collected wood is offered to a lady in a carriage with a goat ;
Postcard No. 175 from Ludwig Hemmer

Evidence of a settlement around the tax thief was found in archaeological artifacts in the form of around 5000 years old stone axes from the Stone Age and fragments of burial urns from around 1000 BC. Up to the time of the Dark Centuries , no further sources of human activities on site were found until the Low German Stürendeif , originally meaning "Steure the Thief", was first mentioned in 1392 with the construction of a waiting room. The building for a road and wood warden as part of the Landwehr served both the interests of the sovereign , who wanted to delimit the area of ​​the former villages of Groß- and Klein-Buchholz from that of the Hildesheim monastery , and the city of Hanover, which was outside the city ​​fortifications of Hanover control over the use of the forest and on the transport of peat to Feuerungszwecken over the Schiffgraben wanted to pursue.

Around the end of the 17th century, drinks were served for the first time at the tax thief, about which the Hanoverian historian Johann Heinrich Redecker wrote a few decades later in his Chronicle Historical Collectanea ... :

"[...] a forest and inn , where no tower [...] has the name Stür den Deifen from the fact that it is supposed to control or defend against wood thieves."

During the time of the Electorate of Hanover , a new forest and inn was built on the same site in 1750, which was then leased for more than 100 years to various wood and forest overseers who also ran a bar at the tax thief . Meanwhile, a storm had destroyed the peat barn in Altwarmbüchener Moor , so that in 1763 a new peat barn was built on the tax thief. At the beginning of the 19th century, the establishment had developed into an undemanding, but especially popular in the summer economy, in which stands with shooting targets were used to entertain the guests, and later also bowling alleys .

The new neo-baroque building with elements of the country house style around 1900;
Postcard No. 960 , Karl F. Wunder
Cyclists in front of around 4,000 seats in the new "Waldwirtschaft Steudieb" around 1900, run by Otto Reuter , who also ran a wine restaurant at Langen Laube 47 in Hanover,
collotype from Wunder, 1905
Part of the interior in front of tall windows, around 1905

Only after the German Empire was proclaimed , the property was only leased to restaurateurs from the founding year in 1872. When in 1900 the Council of the City of Hannover and the garden director Julius trip aimed at a renewal of Hanoverian forest restaurants, the so far rather "modest building" was demolished in the tax thief, and built in its place from 1901 to 1904, a new building designed by architect Otto Ruprecht -style Neo-baroque and country house . An additional, small but representative park around the new building offered at least 4,000 guests a seat in the new beer and coffee garden in the Eilenriede.

In the year before the beginning of the First World War , the "Völkerschlacht- Oak " was planted near the tax thief in 1913 on the occasion of the centenary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . Only a little later, the first wounded from the war fronts were brought to Reserve Hospital II at the tax thief.

During the Nazi era , extensive construction work was carried out around 1935 on the route for the Eilenriederennen, among other things on the tax thief. With the funds for job creation measures, dangerous curves were straightened for the race; up to 150 workers per day performed a total of “15,000 daily work”. The Hannoversche Anzeiger No. 8 of January 10, 1935 reported on the "[...] moaning and smoke [... of the 'Eilenriedeeisenbahn' used for the moving earth masses'".

During the Second World War , the Wehrmacht used the tax thief's building as a storage facility for ammunition , which was then damaged by aerial bombs during the air raids on Hanover . After the end of the war, the house, which was still halfway intact, initially served - German - refugees as emergency accommodation until the British military authorities confiscated the property for their own purposes . After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and despite the years of the economic boom that followed, the tax thief, newly established only half a century earlier, was soon run down - and was canceled in 1955. Only one farm building that had been left standing alone, the “Hanebuth Cave” named after the robbery murderer Jasper Hanebuth , was expanded in the following year 1956 to create the new forest restaurant “Steuerdieb”.

In 1967/68 the forest restaurant was converted into a sophisticated dining restaurant according to plans by Stefan Schwerdtfeger .

  • Side view of today's restaurant

  • Old gem in front of the restaurant tax thief

literature

  • Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): Forestry tax thief. Guest garden and large hall (Karl F. Wunder). In: ders .: Hannover Archive . Vol. 7, 1986, Braunschweig: Archiv-Verlag, sheet 51.
    • Likewise the Hanover edition , sheet 04059.
  • Regional tip Buchholz, Misburg, Roderbruch, tax thief, Lahe-Riethorst (magazine, 1.1983–4.1986), Hanover (available in the Leibniz library )
  • Ulfert Herlyn et al. a. (Ed.): Of large squares and small gardens. Contributions to the history of use of open spaces in Hanover (= work on social science-oriented open space planning. Vol. 12). Minerva, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-597-10701-X .
  • Horst Kruse: The development of the suburb of Hanover since 1315 using the example of the development of the shores of the Schiffgraben from the moor to the Masch and the house owners until 1979 (= materials on the local history of Hanoverian districts. Vol. 19: Vorstadt Hannover, Schiffgraben ). Self-published, Gehrden-Everloh 2003, ISBN 3-00-010764-9 , pp. 46–53.

Web links

Commons : Steuerdieb (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Restaurant reviews

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the town table (see there) expressly mentions a watch tower , but more recently the following reply has been given: "[...] tax thief (first mentioned in 1392, without tower)"; Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Eilenriede. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 149–152; here: p. 151; online through google books.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Ludwig Hoerner : Tax thief. 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. 604.
  2. ↑ a b Bärbel Ontrup-Eifert (responsible): Welcome to the tax thief. ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In : steuerdieb.de .
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Leonhardt : "Hannoversche Stories". Reports from different parts of the city. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , passim ; online through google books .
  4. ↑ Edward Kruger : deif , in ibid .: Overview of today's Low German language (especially in Emden) (in Gothic type ), Emden: Woortmann, 1843; on-line
  5. ^ A b Helmut Plath , Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer , Dieter Brosius , Klaus Mlynek : term tax thief. In: Hannover Chronik , online via Google books
  6. ↑ Ralph Anthes (responsible): City tables of Hanover / tax thief (plate 34). In: Stadthistorie.info , including a photo of the (legible) city board.
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke : Landwehr. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 384f.
  8. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Trip, Julius. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 363.
  9. ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Eilenriede. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 149–152, here p. 150; online through google books.
  10. ^ Evidence , Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 1988, p. 202
  11. ↑ Proof

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 4 ″  E