Pepermölenbek

(Written in Low German for " pepper mill brook", also Pepermöhlenbek, Pepermöhlenbeek or Pepermölenbeck ) The or Pepermölenbek is a right tributary of the Elbe in Hamburg. Until the 17th century the river was known as Altenau or Altenaue; the name Pepermölenbek he should have received after a nearby creek at the Peppermill, whose existence is, however, just as little evidence as that for safety reasons a scale at the edge of urban development Powder Mill.

The now largely fallen dry or drained and piped Bach was for several centuries the boundary stream between the then still independent and suburban Altona Hamburg Mountain ( now St. Pauli ) and thus also between Holstein and Hamburg. There, where the creek flowed the fish market in the Elbe, Heilwig founded by the lip 1246 a Cistercian monastery. The place was called Herwardeshude and included a mill, a yard and possibly a few other buildings. 1295 were moved to the monastery to the Alster, mill yard and burned from 1308 after a lightning strike.

To this day, the name of the in the old, relatively narrow and steep valley to the fish market extending from Nobistor road to the waters, it was called until 1948 Brook Road, then Pepermölenbek.