Eastern old town (Rostock)
The Rostock Eastern Old City is next to the northern Old Town , a part of the modern structure of the city center of the Hanseatic city and is part of the district center . The eastern old town is separated in the northwest from the so-called northern old town by Grubenstraße , in the south the area east of the town hall and the east side of Steinstraße is called the eastern old town. Its eastern border is the city wall or the broken roads in front of the wall. The term Eastern Old Town is a common term and is used particularly in spatial planning and the local press.
Today's Eastern Old Town is not identical to Rostock's historic old town . This historic old town was the oldest of the three original Rostock sub-towns - along with Mittel- and Neustadt - which merged in 1265 to form the entire city of Rostock. The historic old town was located between the eastern city wall and the pit, from which the Grubenstrasse emerged in the 19th century.
Most of the eastern old town is located on the old town hill , which slopes sharply towards Grubenstraße in the west. The roads coming from the west also have a steep gradient towards Grubenstrasse. The road layout had to adapt to these height differences, which is why the network of paths is not subject to a clear structure, as is the case with the chessboard-shaped Neustadt. With the Altschmiede -, the Wollenweber - and the Lohgerberstraße, there are three north-south axes, which are connected by irregularly laid out side streets.
The old town churches of St. Petri and St. Nicolai rise above the eastern old town, each with a market in front of them, the no longer existing Lohmarkt at the Nikolaikirche and the old market in front of the west portal of the Petrikirche. This old market is probably Rostock's oldest market square.
In 1677 the old town was largely destroyed by the Rostock city fire . Only the two old town churches and the southern sections around Mühlenstrasse were spared the fire.
In the nights of bombing at the end of April 1942, this area of the city was again heavily damaged, so the two churches were almost completely burned down and their tower domes were lost. However, especially in the eastern section around Lohgerberstrasse, valuable building fabric has been preserved.
In the 1950s, some vacant lots were closed, the city was in the decades to turn but largely neglected. An area demolition, as was done in the northern old town in the 1970s, did not materialize.
After 1990 numerous buildings were renovated and vacant lots were closed. The restoration of the Gothic spire of St. Petri in 1994 symbolized the revival of this oldest part of the Hanseatic city. However, there are still numerous open spaces, such as B. on the southeast side of the Great Waterway or in Wollenweberstraße.
Since the New Market was closed to car traffic in 2003, the volume of traffic in the eastern old town has increased, but this urban area is much quieter and more tranquil than the city center around Kröpeliner and Lange Straße .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 24 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 40 ″ E