At the Hege
The street An der Hege in Rostock is a short alley northeast of the nearby town hall . In the south it is connected to the street Hinter dem Rathaus , and in the east the Große Scharrenstraße branches off from it . In the north it ends (today) as a dead end. It is part of the former Rostock Mittelstadt .
Historical and worth seeing
First mentioned in 1398, it got its name from a nearby enclosed area, where court was held in the Middle Ages. Public trials were conducted in medieval Rostock near the town hall, as evidenced by the fresco Christ as Judge of the World on the front of the building.
Because of its proximity to the Neuer Markt , the center of the city, wealthy merchants and brewers settled in An der Hege, who built stately gabled houses in particular on the east side. Most of the street fell victim to the great city fire of 1677. In the original Rostock road network, one came from the Hege in a northerly direction to a small, triangular square called Am Schilde , on the south side of which there was a magnificent double-gabled house. This sign was completely destroyed in the nights of bombing at the end of April 1942 and was not rebuilt. Only one building survived the war in the entire street An der Hege. Since then, the road to the north has been a dead end. A container building was located next to it until 2012, and the former street is now used as a car park.
The only preserved historical building in the street is An der Hege 11, behind whose baroque facade is the oldest preserved residential building in the city of Rostock. It is on the corner of Grosse Scharrenstrasse, where the Father Rhine restaurant was located until the political change , today it is used by the Rostock Wingolf , a Christian student association . You can tell the true age of this house from the gothic rear gable and the side front with its powerful pillars.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 20 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ E