Fish bank

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The fish bank to the west (in the foreground the old town part)

The Fischbank is a street in the center of Rostock . It connects the Wollenweberstrasse with the Kleine Wasserstrasse in an east-west direction . In the middle it crosses Grubenstrasse . It is part of both the former Rostock central and old town .

course

Starting at the corner of (today's) Kleine Wasserstrasse , it initially heads northeast. After the intersection with Grubenstrasse, it runs again to the south-east and takes the Silk Road leading to the north , which connects it with Hartestrasse before it crosses Wollenweberstrasse. It is of relatively great importance for motor traffic in today's eastern old town , i.e. the urban area east of the town hall .

history

The fish bank is made up of two historic streets, both of which led to the watercourse of the pit , today's Grubenstrasse. They were the middle-town Große Bäckerstrasse in the west and the old town Große Böttcherstrasse in the east. At the pit, the two were connected by the fishing bridge. The Große Bäckerstrasse was first mentioned in 1288 as platea pistorum , the Große Böttcherstrasse in 1266 as platea bodicariorum . The eponymous professions of baker and cooper belonged to the so-called noble trades, ie guilds, so that both streets were mostly lined with gabled houses. The city ​​fire of 1677 destroyed both streets equally. In the following years they were rebuilt with baroque eaves houses.

In order to avoid confusion between the two streets because of their similar-sounding names, both streets were merged into a fish bank in 1856 . The name came from the fish stalls known as fish banks on both sides of the pit. Until 1938 there was also a Jewish business and residential district in the Fischbank.

In the nights of bombing at the end of April 1942 , all the houses in the Fischbank were destroyed. In the first phase of reconstruction of the inner city from 1949, the Fischbank was provided with a uniform residential area.

Apart from its course and its name, nothing today reminds of this historic street.

swell

  • Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
  • Horst Witt, Ingrid Ehlers, Hans-Werner Bohl, Friedrich Karl Raif: Rostock's street names from AZ. (= Small series of publications by the Rostock City Archives. Special issue 5). Rostock 1981, OCLC 758723681 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 23 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 39 ″  E