Der Tönnekesdrieter

One of the "must sees" on our "Ruhrort" city tours is certainly the "Tönnekesdrieter". Learn more about the function of a wooden bucket and what the Romans had to do with it ...

In the Duisburg Hafen-Stadtteil-Ruhrort, there is a monument that represents contemporary history .... Around 1500, there was probably a sanitary problem in all German cities that had to be coordinated systematically ... At the Schiffer exchange, right next to the hotel "La Viegie" on the corner of Kasteel Strasse 1-3, you can see a monument, a relief, a so-called "Tönnekesdrieter" at that time, someone who was relieved of his need Wood bin has done .... It was an unthinkable condition for today's young people ... When reading the information board at the memorial, these thoughts came spontaneously to my mind ... which I still witnessed myself in Duisburg .... Older people, from today's big city Duisburg, will surely remember the fifties - sixties from the beginning of the 20th century in our city, where conditions were comparable to those in the 1500th century .... Settlement in the north of Duisburg, was built at that time, without sanitary sewerage - connection ... the so-called poet district (Lessing, Goethe, Schiller .... Straße.) Still exist today, of course with toilets .... There were stables for every family in the backyards for a period of about 50 years, with a wooden toilet, where the emergency was found in pits ...... These times are not so long ago ..... Lived contemporary history of a city, may, should and must be preserved for posterity, even if the subject, figuratively speaking, should be somewhat disreputable .... The "Tönnekesdrieter" monument could also be found in any other German city, the time was just that ....

At the sight of this plaque you can hardly resist a smile. A man in the quiet village in the time before connecting to the sewer.

Shows the clean solution of an old problem at a time :))