Old Schrangen
The Alte Schrangen was a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The approximately 100 meter long Alte Schrangen was in the center of the city and was located in the north-west corner of the Johannis Quartier . It began in the Breite Straße opposite the office building and, as a narrow cross street, represented the connection to the parallel Königstraße .
history
Since the 13th century, the butcher's stalls ( Schrangen in Low German , literally originally barriers in the old sense of tables or counters ) have been in a square on Breite Straße, opposite the current office building. This place formed the area actually called Schrangen. Two narrow streets formed the entrance from Königstraße, of which the northern one was first mentioned in 1293 with the Latin name macella carnificum ( butcher's meat market). In 1457 the Low German name was Vleschschrangen (meat stalls ), 1472 Küterstrate after the term Küter for butcher. In 1587 the variant Kutterstraße is occupied, in 1700 the version of Köterstraße, which has a twisting effect, is used .
Until 1845, the Lübeck butchers were legally required to sell meat exclusively on the Schrangen. After this regulation was repealed, the booths lost their function, as the butchers now preferred to offer their goods in their houses. The stalls were broken up; The name Schrangen was increasingly transferred to the streets leading up from Königstraße, and this development was confirmed in 1884 when the northern street was officially given the name Alter Schrangen , which had already been used for some time , and the southern one became the Kleiner Schrangen . The square that represented the actual Schrangen had already been built on with a newly built syringe house in 1852 and had completely disappeared.
In 1928 and 1929 the buildings between the old and the small Schrangen were demolished along their entire length between Breiter Straße and Königstraße and a new, square-like street was created. The two streets formally ceased to exist in 1931 and merged with the newly created Schrangen .
literature
- W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
- 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).
- The jurisprudence of the Higher Appeal Court of the four free cities in Germany in civil cases from Lübeck. Volume 1: 1848/55. Verlag Hermann Gesenius, Bremen 1866, ZDB -ID 513049-9 .