Aegidienkirchhof
The Aegidienkirchhof is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The Aegidienkirchhof is located in the south-eastern part of the old town island, the Johannis Quartier . In a broader sense, it encompasses the open space that surrounds the Aegidienkirche on all sides and that is bounded in the north by Aegidienstraße , in the east by St.-Annen-Straße , in the south by Schildstraße and in the west by the buildings between the spitzwinkling converging Aegidienstraße and Schildstraße.
The street is dedicated to the part that is located in front of the west facade of the church and connects Aegidienstraße with Schildstraße.
history
The Aegidienkirchhof was first mentioned in a document in 1227 with the Latin name Apud sanctum Egidium ( near St. Aegidien). In 1293 Apud cimiterium sancti Egidii ( near the churchyard of St. Aegidien) is recorded. The current name was officially established in 1852.
Until the inner-city cemeteries were closed in 1832, the area around the church served the parish of St. Aegidien as a burial place. Those buried here were reburied in the new Burgtorfriedhof ; Today the Aegidienfriedhof is a partly paved, partly lawn and tree-lined open space, on which some historical grave slabs are embedded in the ground.
The Aegidienkirchhof became world-famous when Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau used the houses, as Haus Hutters , as a backdrop for his film Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror in his Lübeck exterior shots . The use of the Aegidienkirche in the film failed because of the Lübeck resistance. The Wismar Marienkirche was used as a substitute for them . If you watch the film and compare the house with today, you will only see a marginal difference - if at all - from then.
Buildings
- Aegidienkirche , from 13. – 15. Century built Romanesque - brick Gothic hall with three naves
- Aegidienkirchhof 1-3 : A row of three renaissance eaves houses belonging to the church from the 2nd half of the 16th century , which go back to the years 1300-1454
literature
- W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
- W. Brehmer: Lübeck house names along with contributions to the history of individual houses. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1890.
- Klaus J. Groth : World Heritage Lübeck - Listed Houses. Over 1000 portraits of the listed buildings in the old town. Listed alphabetically by streets. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-1231-7 .
- Max Hoffmann: The streets of the city of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Jg. 11, 1909, ISSN 0083-5609 , pp. 215-292 (also special print: 1909).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 50.4 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 21.1" E