Glockengießerstrasse

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The Glockengießerstraße (marked in red)
The Glockengießerstraße (view of the Katharinenkirche)
Glockengießerstrasse, around 1900. Katharinenkirche in the background on the left .

The Glockengießerstraße (1258 Latin : Platea campanariorum ) in the Jakobi Quartier is one of the rib streets in the medieval town planning of Lübeck's old town.

history

The name is explained by the fact that the bell founders were based in the street in the Middle Ages . Today the character of the street is mainly determined by residential use. Some of the most significant Lübeck corridors and courtyards of the Lübeck area monument of the world cultural heritage are located here. Their portals tell like an epitaph about their founders and the purpose of the foundation: merchants like Johann Füchting or Johann Glandorp immortalized themselves through their donations.

course

House of the foremen of the Katharinenkirche , Glockengießerstraße 2
Günter Grass House , Glockengießerstraße 21

The Glockengießerstraße begins at the corner of Königstraße and Katharinenkirche . Its course leads from the ridge of the old town island to the east down into the former valley of the Wakenitz . The street used to end at the city ​​wall of the Lübeck city fortifications and the Wakenitz, which enclosed Lübeck in the east until the Elbe-Lübeck Canal was dug at the end of the 19th century . The bell foundry tower used to stand here . Because the canal is narrower than the dammed Wakenitz was, land was won in the east of the "old town island" on which the canal road was laid, where the Glockengießerstrasse ends today.

On the north side of the choir of St. Catherine the house falls foreman because it does not gable ever built, but as Traufenhaus . In its substance it is a late Gothic house . The facade and the dwelling , however, are baroque . The portal comes from the Rococo . The neighboring house no. 4 is then gabled again, as is typical of Lübeck. The Katharinen- or Attendorn-Stift was founded in 1301 by the Lübeck councilor Volmar von Attendorn as a beguinage . The gable of this house collapsed in 1718 and was then redesigned in the Renaissance style with baroque window reveals . The passage to the school yard of the Katharineum dates back to 1978. After the Reformation, the Attendornstift became a dormitory for teacher widows. The Günter Grass House is located at Glockengießerstraße 21 . Between 1877 and 1886, the Roquettesche private teachers' seminar was housed at Glockengießerstraße 37.

Listed houses

The building plots at Glockengießerstraße No. 1 , 2–12 even, 18–28 even, 23–27 odd ( Füchtingshof ), 29–35 odd, 36, 39, 40–50 even, 41–43 odd (Glandorps Gang) are listed buildings. , 45–53 odd (Glandorps Hof), 55–57 odd, 62, 69–75 odd, 72–74 even, 87, 91–95 odd.

Corridors and courtyards

The following Lübeck corridors and courtyards walk from Glockengießerstraße (according to house numbers):

  • 25: Füchtingshof
  • 38: Baker's course
  • 39: Illhorn Sift
  • 41–53: Glandorps Gang and Glandorps Hof
  • 52: Schwolls Torweg
  • 58: Storms Gang (missing)
  • 64: Nöltings Gang (missing)
  • 70: Graths Gang (missing)
  • 77: Lödings Hof
  • 83: Schmütz's walk
  • 93: Warncke's walk

  • Portal of the Füchtingshof

  • Glandorps yard

literature

  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Glockengießerstraße  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EF Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie from the beginnings of the city to the present (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 7, no . 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 247.
  2. ↑ Donated by the merchant and councilor Johann Glandorp († 1612)

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 8.4 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 40.6"  E