Salt storage

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From Wallstrasse
From the Obertrave at night
Salt storage with normal water level of the Trave and without trees in front of it (2014)
The salt reservoirs when the Trave floods (2009)
The Lübeck salt store before 1921

The salt storage facilities are a group of warehouses on Lübeck's Obertrave, right next to the Holstentor . They were built in the brick renaissance and brick baroque styles .

History and historical significance

The salt storage facilities were built between 1579 and 1745:

  • Speicher 1 in 1579
  • Speicher 2 in 1599
  • Memory 3 shortly after 1600
  • Speicher 4 in 1594
  • Speicher 5 in 1743-1745
  • Speicher 6 in 1743-1745.

A clinker relief on the facade of the storage facility next to the Holsten Gate indicates that it was owned by the Oldesloe salt works until 1839 . The storage buildings originally served to store the salt brought in from Lüneburg via the Alte Salzstraße and later via the Stecknitz Canal, as well as the salt extracted from the Oldesloe saltworks and brought by barges on the Trave, which was exported from Lübeck to all of Scandinavia as the basis of its wealth at the time has been. The salt was mainly used to preserve fish caught in Norway and Skåne , and thus enabled the herring trade as a fasting food with the inland. The location at the Holstenbrücke over the Trave as the oldest permanent bridge in Lübeck marked the border between the seaport and the inland port with its connection to the Elbe through the Stecknitz Canal in the Middle Ages .

Later use

The Lübeck salt storage facility was the location for the film Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and served as the backdrop for the house that the vampire rents.

Cloth, grain or wood were later stored in the granaries. In the Third Reich, one of the granaries was converted into a HJ home. Today the buildings are used by a textile department store which, after its original business premises were bombed, moved to one of the salt warehouses as an alternative quarter in 1942 and left its business there.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information leaflet from the department store in the salt store: On the history of the salt store , Lübeck approx. 2013.
  2. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter, 79th year 1937, supplement to No. 8 of February 21, 1937
  3. ^ Information leaflet from the department store in the salt store: On the history of the salt store , Lübeck approx. 2013.

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 48.7 ″  E