Broad Street (Rostock)
The Breite Straße in the historic city center of Rostock is a pedestrian zone in the heart of the Hanseatic city .
The Breite Straße connects the Universitätsplatz - the former hop market - which is located in the middle of today's Kröpeliner Straße , with the Langen Straße . It owes its name to its - by medieval standards - great width. It is part of the historic Rostock Neustadt . Since it connected the Hopfenmarkt with the city harbor , together with the Schnickmannstraße to the north , it represented a good residential area and was accordingly provided with gabled houses, the most representative building type of the Hanseatic cities. Over the centuries, these houses were repeatedly adapted to the taste of the time, before the Second World War they had strongly historicizing features. With the four-night bombing of the British Air Force at the end of April 1942 , Breite Strasse was completely destroyed , with the exception of the UFA Film Palace, which had opened four years earlier .
In the course of the reconstruction in the 1950s, the Breite Straße was provided exclusively with modern, functionalist buildings. Today's Breite Straße has a very attractive infrastructure, so you can find a branch of a German department store group on the corner of Lange Straße in addition to several restaurants. It was particularly attractive because it was declared a pedestrian zone as early as 1961, along with the nearby Kröpeliner Straße .
literature
- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade publishing house, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
- The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. Edited by Heinrich Trost, edited by Gerd Baier et al. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , p. 346ff.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 5 ″ E