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The Gasselstiege despite its suburban location one of the oldest streets in the city of Münster in Westphalia . It begins as a small residential street well outside the historic old town, today on Steinfurter Straße and extends to the small street Zum Bergbusch northwest of the Kinderhaus district . From there it continues as an unnamed small bicycle and footpath to the street Langenhorster Stiege in the Häger family .
It got its name from the Schulze Gassel farm (today Gasselstiege 561), a so-called main court of the Münster canons since 1240 , which in turn derives its name from "Gössel", a name for a young goose.
The Gasselstiege was once an important connecting road between Münster and the Netherlands . As a connecting road, it can now only be used continuously for bicycle and pedestrian traffic, car traffic meets a car block both at its beginning on Steinfurter Strasse and at several points when it continues.
On April 2 and 3, 1945, ten German soldiers, some of them only 17 and 18 years old, were killed in defense of Münster near the Grosse-Jüdefeld farm. They are still buried today on the Gasselstiege in the Gasselstiege Ehrenfriedhof .
In 1998 the Gasselstiege got artistic honors when Kirsten Kaiser “put (almost) the whole street in quotation marks”. She put a first metal quotation mark at the beginning of the street, the second at the confluence of the access road from Hof Schulze Gassel with Gasselstiege, a few hundred meters from the end of the street.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.heimatmuseum-kinderhaus.de/resources/Rundwege_Kinderhaus_Web.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.muenster.de/stadt/tourismus/pdf/skulpturen.pdf 1998
- ↑ http://www.muenster.de/kinderhaus.html
- ↑ http://www.muenster.de/stadt/tourismus/pdf/skulpturen.pdf 1998
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 12.6 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 15.4 ″ E