Purgatory (Lübeck)
The purgatory is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The approximately 130-meter-long purgatory is located in the southwestern part of the old town island, the Marien Quartier , and connects Mühlenstrasse with the cathedral cemetery .
history
The street was first mentioned in a document in 1296 with the Latin name Platea parva, quae ducit ad sanctum Nicolaum de platea molendinorum (small street that leads from Mühlenstraße to St. Nikolaus , i.e. the Lübeck Cathedral ). From 1324 the name Veghevur ( purgatory ) is documented; it is a word game that takes up the ecclesiastical doctrine of purgatory reference, because the road leads straight to this very day as paradise known gate hall on the north facade of the cathedral at: To get to heaven, you have to go through purgatory . In 1852 the current street name was officially established.
Until the secularization in 1804, purgatory was part of the cathedral freedom , which was not subject to the council but to the cathedral chapter . Soon after the area was passed into the hands of the city, the existing medieval buildings were redesigned in a uniformly classicist manner and the canons ' curiae, which had been undeveloped until then, were given uniformly classicist new buildings.
After the funeral ceremonies held in the cathedral , the former garrison church of the Lübeck regiment, the funeral procession , as in the picture on the right, of General Ernst von Heynitz on June 2, 1927, the church through paradise via purgatory to reach the cemetery from there.
The bombing raid of March 29, 1942 tore gaps in the historic buildings that are now closed with buildings from the post-war period.
Buildings
- Purgatory 4 : at the beginning of the 19th century, the eaves house was redesigned in a classicistic style and dates back to the years between 1375 and 1449; under one roof with no. 6-10
- Purgatory 6 : At the beginning of the 19th century, the eaves house was redesigned in a classical style and dates back to the years between 1375 and 1449; under one roof with no. 4–10
- Purgatory 8 : at the beginning of the 19th century, the eaves house was redesigned in a classical style and dates back to the years between 1375 and 1449; under one roof with no. 4–10
- Purgatory 10 : at the beginning of the 19th century, the eaves house was redesigned in a classical style, dating back to the years between 1375 and 1449; under one roof with No. 4-8
- Purgatory 21 : Classical house built in 1804 on a former canons' curia
- Purgatory 23 : Classicist corner house built in 1804 on a former canons' curia
- Purgatory 25 : Classical house built in 1804 on a former canons' curia
- Purgatory 27 : Classicist house built in 1804 on a former canons' curia
- Purgatory 29 : Classicist house built in 1804 on a former canons' curia
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).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 43.5 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 11.8" E