Tarry

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A site for the storage, decanting and (partly) processing of tar in some Hanseatic cities was called the Teerhof . Due to the flammability of the tar, these areas were located outside the actual urban development of the cities - if possible also surrounded by water - and were subject to special supervision.

The prepared wood tar was mainly from Scandinavia and the Baltic countries imported and evaluated according to quality and also often transferred to standardized barrels.

For the Hanseatic cities, tar was an important commodity and also of the utmost importance for sailing ships , as the ropes were protected from rotting by tar and the hulls were sealed by caulking the joints between the planks.

The importance of wood tar declined with the advent of coal tar produced from the middle of the 19th century and later with the end of sailing .

Tar yards

  • The first Teerhof was set up around 1400 in Lübeck on the northern Wall peninsula . 1845 (against the background of the Hamburg fire ) the Teerhof was initially moved further north to last 1,883 to the (1882 resulting) Teerhofinsel to be laid.
  • In Bremen, the Teerhof was established on a peninsula between the Weser and the Kleine Weser in the 15th century (today part of the Alte Neustadt district in the Neustadt district ), see Teerhof (Bremen) .
  • In Hamburg , the Teerhof has been located northeast of today's Speicherstadt since 1731 (today in the Hamburg-Mitte district) - a street name reminds of it. After the Hamburg fire , the Teerhof was relocated to a place further away from the city center for security.
  • In Wismar , the Teerhof was located south of the port - a street name reminds of it.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Paulsen, Ulrike Looft-Gaude: The black leaders. Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein. Eulen Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-89102-426-6 , p. 80.