History

The history of the estate

Yard no. 10
Lechstedter village inn,
founded about 160 years ago


Bild "About us:geschichte01.jpg"In the cadastral land register of 1847/48 yard no. 10 has been officially mentioned for the first time. The house builder was Christian Koenneker, a so called Koetner (an old German expression used to name the owner of a farmhouse without farmland).
The farmhouse after having been sold then belonged to Carl Wolkenhauer. As it was customary at that time he conducted animal husbandry, farming and run the first inn. He named it the “Wolkenhauer”.






Bild "About us:geschichte02.jpg"Heinrich Carl Ernst Wolkenhauer, son of Carl Wolkenhauer and his first wife, was the next in the line of succession. He continued to conduct the inn under the name of “Wolkenhauer”. The estate on the opposite side, yard no.11, belonged to the family, too which was and still is documented by the inscription obove the great barn door that says “K. Wolkenhauer and Christine née Ohms, in the year of 1863”. Probably by the end of the 19th or in the beginning of the 20st century a skittle alley has been assembled to that building. As a child, Dieter Meyer, the grandson of the next owner, still found the old wooden balls.  




In 1908, Heinrich Carl Ernst Wolkenhauer sold his entire estate. The posession of yard no. 11 was attributed to the Mueller estate in the village. Heinrich Meyer, an owner of a dairy in Hoheneggelsen some 20 kilometers away, acquired the yard no.10, the inn, the garden, the hedge fenced grazing land at the nearby Schoeneberg, and 14 acres of wood land. He was the grandfather of Dieter Meyer. The residential building of Dieter Meyer stands on the former garden land. The grazing land used to be a fruit orchard, which delivered the ingredients for fruit wines.


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99 years of the Lechstedter Obstweinschaenke

The Wolkenhauer inn was re-named as Obstweinschaenke, the 1st of April 1911. The Obstweinschaenke became famous for its cherry- and morello-cherry-wines.
During World War 1 the cherry trees had to be cut down on official demand. The imposed clear cutting affected the surrounding grazing land, too. In Hildesheim and the vicinity a tree disease had affected mostly cherry trees.
Thereafter the fruit wine had to be imported from the fruit mill Werder in Berlin which delivered the wines in 30 l demijohns. Until the 1950ies, the wine was collected at Gross Duengen railway station.
Due to family connections the Woehleke family from Gross Lobke then became the new fruit wine provider. Since then the famous fruit wines come from that village situated northeast of Hildesheim about 25 kilometers from Lechstedt.
Grandfather Heinrich Meyer conducted the Obstweinschaenke as long as 1934 succeeded by his son Friedrich Meyer who conducted the Obstweinschaenke until 1965.



Bild "About us:geschichte05.jpg"On Tuesday, October  10th, 1961 around 4.30 a.m.

Friedrich Meyer rudely awoke. The Obstweinschaenke was in flames. Thanks to the great effort of the fire brigades from all of the surrounding communities half of the residual house and the bar parlor could be saved.











Bild "About us:geschichte06.jpg"Those parts being destroyed by the fire have been rebuilt. Even half a century later, the village people still remember that tragic day for the Obstweinschaenke.










From 1965 till 1977 in third generation of the Meyer family, Dieter Meyer run the Obstweinschaenke in the rural tranquility of a small village. Nearly everything offered in the Obstweinschaenke was home-made. In the little family business everyone was in charge of everything: Cleaning the vegetables, peeling potatoes, serving the guests, assisting with the home slaughtering or baking cakes. Not to mention the various festivities being celebrated in the Obstweinschaenke. The rich and tasty fruit wine and the traditional, rural dishes with tasty fried potatoes and brawn in aspic jelly became the trademarks of the Obstweinschaenke. The citizens of Hildesheim living in flats without a balcony or a garden have always loved to come to the Obstweinschaenke. And it has always been and still is a meeting place for the population of Lechstadt.


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The newspaper Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung” reported that the Obstweinschaenke after 66 years as family business, was leased to Juergen Grunewald. Already the decision to give away the family business was difficult for Dieter Meyer but it was even harder for him to watch the decline of the Obstweinschaenke later on. After six years of leasing, the Obstweinschaenke was vacant for almost one year. In 1984 the families Grass and Oldewurtel bought the restaurant. Only 9 months later Helga Hundertmark adopted the contract and successfully operated the Obstweinschaenke until she died in August 1998. People in Hildesheim and the surrounding villages had not forgotten the Obstweinschaenke.
Many well-known country restaurants had to close in the late 1960ies. However the Obstweinschaenke experienced a revival thanks to the concept of the Meyer family and later on with Helga Hundertmark. Hans Gillert, born in Saarland and having worked for many years in well-known Hildesheim restaurants such as Ratskeller, HTV and the Golf restaurant, assumed the contract on January 1, 1999.
By modifying and extending the estate, Hans Gillert created a small but very nice 3* Superior country house hotel. The typical rural dishes such as brawn in aspic jelly, fried potatoes with fried eggs, spicy minced pork, bread with ham and cheese are still offered. Hans Gillert has designed the Lechstedter Obstweinschaenke according to his philosophy of live.



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