Tuckesburg

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Tuckesburg
The Tuckesburg on a colored postcard from 1916

The Tuckesburg on a colored postcard from 1916

Data
place Münster , Hüfferstraße 18a
Client Hermann Landois
Construction year March 10, 1891 to 1892
Coordinates 51 ° 57 '41 "  N , 7 ° 36' 39.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '41 "  N , 7 ° 36' 39.9"  E
Map of Münster 1680. On the recognizable Hüfferstraße the hill with signs of a former fortification / moth and a tree.
The Tuckesburg today.

The Tuckesburg is located on a small hill (the "Weyhesche Hügel") on the edge of the old zoo in Münster between the promenade , Himmelreichallee and Hüfferstraße. It was the house built in 1892 by Hermann Landois , in which he lived from March 17, 1892 with his monkey “Lehmann” until his death. He had it built according to his ideas right next to the zoological garden he founded. There he called himself "Graf Tucks".

Historical

Landois tried to prove that the original fortress and execution site of the Überwasser parish of the same name had been located at this place. In fact, there was a historic Tuckesburg, but it was between the Coesfelder Tor (also Liebfrauentor) and the former Judenschanze on the way to Sentruper Heide. It consisted of a hill with a moat and was the place of execution for the "honest executions", that is, those of citizens of the city or those by the sword. When the citadel was built in 1661, the historic Tuckesburg was removed and built over.

The Weyhesche Hügel , on which today's Tuckesburg stands, are probably the remains of a motte (tower hill castle) from the Middle Ages at the gates of the city. The origin of the name "Tuckesburg" is unknown.

After Landois

In 1967 the Tuckesburg was sold to the city of Münster, renovated and used as a residential building ever since. From 1974 to 1986 the Tuckesburg was lived in by the painter, gallery owner and children's book author Antje Vogel and her husband Claus Steinrötter .

Web links

Commons : Tuckesburg (Münster)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Klapczynsk: Bibliographisch-Biographisches Kirchenlexikon. Volume XXVIII, 2007, columns 972-984 ( Memento of July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Twenty-fourth annual report of the Westphalian Provincial Association for Science and Art for 1895/96 . Regensberg, Münster 1896.
  3. ^ Hermann Landois in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  4. ^ Historical Society of Berlin: Communications from historical literature. Volume 20-22, Berlin 1892.
  5. ^ E. Müller: The execution of sentences in Alt-Münster. In: On red earth. 9th year, No. 3 and 4, 1933.
  6. ^ W. Werland: There were three places of execution in the old minster. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. July 29, 1972.
  7. ↑ W. Werland: The three execution places / prisons in olden times. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. 2nd February 1982.
  8. ↑ Home care in Westphalia. ISSN  0933-6346 . Publisher: Westfälischer Heimatbund, Volume 18 - 3/2005.
  9. ↑ Info homepage Antje Vogel ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )