Tiene

The Tiene, sometimes written Tine, to the period after the First World War was a special transport container for wine and fruit (also: Obsttiene ) in the Brandenburg town of Werder / Havel. The wooden vats were usually worn on the back to the barges and shipped on the Havel primarily to the stalls in Berlin. In remembrance of this time the former collection and loading area of Tienen at the Föse (western Havelarm ) is now officially called Tienenplatz.

Term history

The term Tiene comes from the wine and viticulture was in the Mark Brandenburg originally in 16-17. Century used for wood vats, in which the grapes were trampled. Later Werder transferred the concept to the vessels in which they transported the wine and fruit. The fruit-growing area around the island town of Werder has a long tradition that goes back to the orchards of the Cistercian monks in the monastery Lehnin who is in possession Werder was long.

Capacity, dimensions

Depending on the type of fruit was the content of a Tiene 3.5 to 4 kg and 7 liters. Vessels made ​​of oak weighed 1.8kg, the spruce wood 1.6 kg. The conically built Tienen were tied to dispatch up with a linen cloth. In Werder / Havel and the surrounding area were in 1900 more than 200,000 Tienen in use, the preparation for the Werdersche craft was quite significant. On the island there were three cooperages. It is likely that the coopers trade arose in the 18th century in Werder / Havel and the first Tienen were made in the early 19th century for the transport of fruit. Before the Tienen were sold to the fruit growers, coopers could calibrate it. The Tienen were dried and then weighed and the weight baked on the outside. A new Kirschtiene with a capacity 7-9 pounds cost in 1908 sixty pennies. Himbeertienen preconceived 50 to 60 pounds. The fruits were intended for industrial processing. Werder has pioneered wrought in terms of transport vessels by the first German wine-growing region around 1910 introduced the punnet. Thus the Tiene lost its importance very quickly.

Tienen interesting than Schinkel ( Fontane )

Theodor Fontane remembers the walks through the Mark Brandenburg on his way to school in Berlin, who ran past him every morning on the state of the Werderscher between Frederick Bridge and the Hercules bridge at its original location at the Castle Road: " Sometimes it happened probably that we late "second meeting " of Werderscher, from her sub- tree, swim up saw: large barges densely covered with Tienen, while on the rowing benches sat twenty Werderanerinnen and their oars and the heads with hats Kiepe moving energetically equal. [ ... ] The air was swimming in a refreshing scent, and the dome of the everted and piled-up Holztienen interested us more than the Kommodenbau of Monbijou and, sad to say, even as the forest of columns of Schinkel's New Museum. "