Kröpeliner-Tor suburb

Kröpeliner-Tor suburb City of Rostock Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 19 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 59 ″ E
Height :	9 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.7 km²
Residents :	19,342 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	5,228 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	18057
Area code :	0381
	Location of Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt in Rostock

Margaretenplatz: Typical student meeting point; Holy Spirit Church in the background

Formerly the Theater of Peace on Doberaner Strasse, a cinema that opened on May 8, 1953 with 600 seats. Today there is a club with a bar in the house.

The Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt (KTV) is a district of Rostock with over 19,000 inhabitants. It is located west of the medieval town center south of the Unterwarnow . It owes its name to the Kröpeliner Tor , the western main gate of the old Rostock. Originally, the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt was a Wilhelminian-era residential area primarily for workers and was mainly built in perimeter block development .

Today, KTV is strongly influenced by its young residents, especially students. There are a variety of trendy bars in the district. The trendy district is sometimes also referred to as the Kiez , based on the lively urban districts in Berlin or Hamburg.

geography

Wismarsche Straße: Closed perimeter block development from the Wilhelminian era

The area of the district Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt is bordered to the north by the street Am Warnowufer , to the west and southwest by the Rostock – Warnemünde railway line . To the east, the KTV extends to the beginning of the former city fortifications and to the street Am Vögenteich . The actual Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt extends roughly to Maßmannstrasse in the west and Friedhofsweg in the south. In addition, the old cemetery (today Lindenpark ) and the residential area around Feldstrasse and Bei den Police Gardens in the south as well as the area around Thomas-Müntzer-Platz and the former Neptun shipyard in the northwest are part of today's district. The industrial area in Bramow between the railway line and Warnow is one of them.

history

Until the 1850s there were only a few farms west of the Kröpeliner Tor and the windmills on the Doberaner Berg . The street names Windmühlenstraße and Lohmühlenweg still remind of this. The first bourgeois houses were villas belonging to various shipowner families, which were laid out in front of the gate along with spacious gardens. A preserved villa is now the seat of the Attorney General of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Saniter family owned the most extensive gardens. At the Doberaner Street emerged Brewery of Mahn & Ohlerich (1878). The women's, eye and ear, nose and throat clinic and the first botanical garden of the University of Rostock were built on the Doberaner Berg at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries .

New living space was necessary for the workers in the emerging shipbuilding industry (Rostocker Actiengesellschaft für Schiffs- und Maschinenbau, Schiffswerft Neptun AG). A working-class district with tenement houses was created in the area between Doberaner Strasse and Wismarsche Strasse . After the city an offer the family Saniter, the gardens into a popular garden had rejected remodel, also this area was divided into lots and built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with simple two- to three-storey apartment buildings. Small retail stores, handicraft businesses, and corner pubs were (and are) also part of the district.

The connection between the city center and the suburbs took place via bridges at Bussebart and in front of the Kröpeliner Tor, as the moat ran in front of the Kröpeliner Tor. This was originally part of the medieval city fortifications . From 1890 to approx. 1945 the tracks of the port railway from Rostock main station to the city harbor lay in it . After 1945 it was partially filled with rubble.

The former barracks of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment No. 90 "Kaiser Wilhelm" , which is now used as a university campus , belongs to the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt .

The former Anker Rostock spirits factory ( photo ), which Lidl acquired at the beginning of 2012 in order to renovate it and add a new building, is located at Doberaner Straße 144 . a. a grocery store, an underground car park and 23 apartments.

Around Doberaner Platz and Brink there are more bourgeois buildings, the houses in the planned streets were more like tenements for workers. These only offered a low standard of living. The toilets were in the courtyard or at best in the stairwell, the apartments had 2 to 6 rooms. The housing shortage after the Second World War led to the division of large apartments, and living comfort did not improve even then. It was not until the renovation after 1990 that the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt became an attractive and, especially with students, popular district. The large number of pubs and cafes justifies the reputation of KTV as a trendy district.

The university has here, among other things, its faculty for economics and social sciences and several clinics.

Worth seeing

Allegorical figure by Maximilian Preibisch at the Hansa-Filmtheater

The Holy Spirit Church on the corner of Margaretenstrasse and Borwinstrasse is a neo-Gothic church building from 1908
The Rostock Volkstheater has its largest venue, the Great House, on Doberaner Strasse.
The Borwin School , comprehensive school in the middle with upper secondary school Am Kabutzenhof 8, was built in 1912.
The former House of Friendship (today the Peter-Weiss-Haus ) is located at Doberaner Straße 21 and was built in three sections from 1860 to the 1930s.
The Hanseatic Brewery Rostock was founded in 1878.
In the south of the district is the Lindenpark, the former old cemetery, with the Jewish cemetery .
The Catholic Christ Church on Häktweg was designed by Ulrich Müther . It replaced the church on Schröderplatz, which was demolished in 1971.
The six allegorical figures by Maximilian Preibisch from 1937 at the Hansa-Filmtheater Rostock in Maßmannstrasse 14
Monuments : See the list of architectural monuments in Rostock and the list of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Rostock

Web links

Commons : Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de
↑ Modern shopping center in listed walls . On: rathaus.rostock.de , June 14, 2012.

[1] Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de

[2] Modern shopping center in listed walls . On: rathaus.rostock.de , June 14, 2012.