Rotten pit (Rostock)
The Rostocker Faule Grube is a street in the historic center of the Hanseatic city . It is one of seven streets that connect today's Kröpeliner Strasse with Langen Strasse . It is the fifth of these streets in a west-east direction and lies west of the tower of the Marienkirche . Together with the northern Lagerstrasse and the Buchbinderstrasse adjoining it to the south , it once represented the border between Rostock Neustadt in the west and the Mittelstadt in the east.
history
The name Faule Grube is derived from a lazy, i.e. stagnant and foul-smelling body of water that continued in the camp road and was a tributary of the Unterwarnow . Just like the much larger pit , today's Grubenstrasse , which separated the old town from the middle town , this body of water separated the middle and new town. While this watercourse in the Lagerstraße was already filled in in the 13th century, this did not happen in the Faulen Grube until around 1800.
The lazy pit was first mentioned in 1426, but initially as lazy road . It was not until 1672 that its current name was finally able to establish itself. Until it was filled in, the Faule Grube was not a road in the strict sense of the word, but only a connecting route on both sides of a foul-smelling body of water. The development of the Faulen Grube consisted only of the back of the buildings of the Heilig-Geist-Hospital in the west on the one hand and the back of the Marienkirchhäuser in the east on the other.
The Heilig-Geist-Hospital, which was located between Eselföterstrasse and Fauler Grube, was essentially demolished in the 1830s, structural remains can be found in Eselföterstrasse and in the Heiliggeisthof. Furthermore, the building of today's city library in Kröpeliner Straße was probably the rectory of the church of the Heilig-Geist-Hospital.
In the nights of bombing at the end of April 1942 , the north side was essentially preserved.
On the north side of the Faulen Grube there are two branches, one of which leads to the Heiliggeisthof, while the other leads to the square in front of the two west portals of the Marienkirche.
literature
- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck and Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 21.4 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 14.5 ″ E