Three-street system

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Bösingfeld around 1756: The Lippe three-street scheme is clearly visible

The so-called three - street system describes a floor plan used in numerous medieval city foundations.

This form of the city plan is based on a system of three longitudinal streets that meet at the ends in front of a city gate. This floor plan is particularly common in today's Lippe district . Here the old town of Lemgo (around 1200) with Echternstraße, Mittelstraße and Papenstraße served as a model for later foundations.

This was followed by Horn (1246) and Blomberg (1364), as well as in the county of Sternberg Bösingfeld (before 1252), Alverdissen and Barntrup (1376).

Further examples of cities based on the three-street system are Lügde , Mittenwalde (Brandenburg) and the Nienover desert near Uslar .

References and comments

  1. ↑ See on this: Kittel: Lippische Cities, page 9. Cf. also the comments by Engelbert in: 600 Jahre Barntrup, page 36.

literature

  • Günther Engelbert: The Barntrup city privilege of 1376 and its consequences. In: Erika and Martin Böttcher: 600 years of the city of Barntrup 1376-1976 , Barntrup 1976, page 32 ff.
  • Erich Kittel : On the foundation of the Lippe cities. In: Messages from Lippe History and Regional Studies 20, 1951, page 42 ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '42 "  N , 8 ° 54' 2.6"  E