Angel's Pit
The Engelsgrube is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The approx. 320 meter long Engelsgrube is located in the northwestern part of the old town island, in the Marien-Magdalenen quarter . It begins on Breite Straße opposite the Jakobikirche and runs west down to the Trave . About halfway it is crossed by Engelswisch , which joins from the north , and Schwonekenquerstraße coming from the south , and shortly before the end of the street, the Große Kiesau also joins from the south , before the Engelsgrube meets the Untertrave opposite the swing bridge .
history
The Angel's Pit was first mentioned in a document in 1259 with the Latin names Fossa Angelica and Platea Anglica ( England Street). The name referred to the part of the port to which the road led, as the merchant ships that operated in long-distance trade with England docked there. At the same time, this resulted in the fact that numerous merchants active in England trade, as well as boatmen, settled in the street. An older interpretation according to which the street name was derived from an otherwise intangible early mayor is unlikely.
The derivation of the name was not forgotten in the following centuries either:
- 1361: Fossa Anglicorum (English Pit)
- 1369: Engelsche Grove
- 1419: Fossa Anglicana
- 1601: Engelische Grouwe
It was not until the official definition of the High German name, which is still valid today, in 1852 that it was incorrectly reinterpreted as the angel's pit , although there is no reference to angels .
If you walk along Engelsgrube today and look at the houses and their entrances, it may be surprising that they are lower down or that their ground floor looks strangely compressed. In 1907 the pit was raised up to half a meter. Opposite you can see two images of Engelsgrube 30 , which illustrated the treatise Sunken Houses in the father's city sheets of January 26, 1908. As a result of the new paving, the road received a greater increase in value, if only because it was easier to drive on. Those who had to upgrade their houses to the new level incurred involuntary overspend for those benefits.
If you go through the Qualmanns corridor on the left, it leads to number 32, you will come across a staircase at the end that leads the passer-by down to the original level of the pit.
The Engelsgrube was not affected by the bombing raid on March 29, 1942 and therefore has a largely preserved collection of historical buildings from several centuries.
Buildings
- Engelsgrube 6 : Renaissance house from the 16th century with a classical plastered facade from the 19th century
- Engelsgrube 8 : Renaissance house from the 16th century with a protruding upper floor, remodeled in Baroque style in the 1st half of the 17th century
- Engelsgrube 10 : Brick Renaissance house from the 16th century, under one roof with No. 12
- Engelsgrube 1-17, Schiffer Hof : building complex built in 1908 with a front building in the style of historicism , classicist back buildings (1860–1880) and elements from the Renaissance in the side wings (1530–1580)
- Engelsgrube 12 : Brick Renaissance residential building from the 16th century, under one roof with No. 10
- Engelsgrube 14 : Renaissance house from the 16th century with a classical facade
- Engelsgrube 16 : Renaissance house from the 16th century with a classical facade
- Engelsgrube 18 : Renaissance house built between 1500 and 1574 with a classicist facade, between 1850 and 1874
- Engelsgrube 21, Spinnrademacher Gang House 6: Aisle house built between 1540 and 1560, rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 18th century
- Engelsgrube 23 : Gothic gabled house dating back to the years between 1350 and 1450 with a classicist facade from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century
- Engelsgrube 24 : stepped gable house of the brick Gothic , built between 1300 and 1349
- Engelsgrube 26, Krusenhof House 1–5: Renaissance aisles built in 1545
- Engelsgrube 27 : Gothic house built in 1308 with a brick Renaissance stepped gable from 1530
- Engelsgrube 28 : Renaissance house built in the first half of the 17th century, rebuilt in a classicist style between 1780 and 1824
- Engelsgrube 31, Sievers Torweg House 13, 19 and 20: Renaissance corridors built in 1543
- Engelsgrube 32, Qualmanns Gang, Houses 5, 7, 8 and 9: Renaissance aisles built in 1606
- Engelsgrube 38-42 : Historicist building dating back to the 16th century and built for Max Jenne in 1911 with double brick stepped gables, today Engelshof
- Engelsgrube 41 : Late Classicist house dating back to 1551, built between 1857 and 1876
- Engelsgrube 43, Bäcker Gang House 12–16: Renaissance aisle houses built in 1551
- Engelsgrube 45 : Renaissance stepped gable house from 1551
- Engelsgrube 47 : Brick Renaissance house with triangular gable built between 1580 and 1610
- Engelsgrube 53 : residential and commercial building from the late 19th century in the style of historicism
- Engelsgrube 55 : Corner house built between 1700 and 1724, rebuilt in a neoclassical style in 1874/76
- Engelsgrube 56 : Late Gothic stepped gable house built around 1500
- Engelsgrube 58 : Renaissance gabled house built in the 16th century with a classicist facade, built between 1818 and 1830
- Engelsgrube 60 : Renaissance house built in the 16th century with a classicist facade from 1817
- Engelsgrube 62 : House dating back to between 1550 and 1624 with a classicist facade, built between 1848 and 1857
- Engelsgrube 64 : Renaissance stepped gable house, built between 1525 and 1599
- Engelsgrube 65 : Renaissance house built in 1596 with a classical plastered facade from 1876/77
- Engelsgrube 66 : 1599 erected Renaissance storage , 1926-1964 Cinema Luxor , today Museum Haus Hanseatic City of Danzig
- Engelsgrube 68 : Renaissance stepped gable house from the 16th century
- Engelsgrube 69 : Renaissance building built in 1596 with a classicist facade from 1876/77
- Engelsgrube 71 : Renaissance eaves house built in 1596, front building to Zerrahn's corridor
- Engelsgrube 74 : Renaissance gabled house built between 1550 and 1624, remodeled in baroque style in the second half of the 17th century
- Engelsgrube 76 : Classicist house built in 1822
- Engelsgrube 81 : Renaissance stepped gable house from 1566
- Engelsgrube 83 : Renaissance stepped gable house from 1566
- Engelsgrube 85 : Renaissance stepped gable house from 1566, rebuilt in a classical style in the last quarter of the 18th century
Corridors and courtyards
The following Lübeck corridors and courtyards go from the Engelsgrube (according to house numbers):
- 1–17: Schifferhof (Stiftshof, see above)
- 21: Spinnrademacher Gang (no longer available)
- 26: Krusenhof
- 31: Sievers Torweg
- 32: Qualmann's walk
- 35: Hakes Gang (no longer available)
- 43: Baker's corridor
- 44: Frost's passage (no longer available)
- 48: Butcher gang
- 61: Brandy burner aisle
- 67: Glockengießerhof
- 73: Zerrahn's walk
- 75: Sanders Hagen
- 77: Aisle ready to cook
- 81/83/85: Schinkels Hof (no longer available)
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).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Foundation for Monument Protection supports the Schifferhaus in Lübeck's Engelsgrube , press release, German Foundation for Monument Protection from October 15, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 12.9 ″ E