Grimm (island)
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The Grimm is a former island where the Alster flows into the Elbe ; today the name refers to a street in Hamburg's old town . The marsh island was located east of the Cremon , from which it was separated by the now filled in Steckelhörnfleet , and stretched south of today's Willy-Brandt-Straße from Sankt Katharinen -Kirchhof in the west to approximately Messberg in the east (see illustration).
Grimm and Cremon together formed the parish of Sankt Katharinen from the first half of the 13th century . Before that, Adolf III. Settlers from Westphalia brought in by Schauenburg and Holstein. In order to make the Grimm populable, the island bank was raised, after three storm surges between 1216 and 1219 the island was also diked. Until around 1300 the island was outside the city walls.
The canals are typical of the Grimm. Originally the settlers built far from the water. As demand increased and houses built on the water, the first settlers sold their properties on the water. In order to get to the river anyway, they secured small passages, the canals, to the water.
The Grimm had survived the Hamburg fire of 1842 unscathed and was one of the few areas of Hamburg's old town that still had historical buildings in the 20th century. These were mainly four-storey and three- to five-axis Hamburg merchant houses from the Baroque era with representative facades, lush portals and built-in lobbies . At the beginning of the 20th century, however, the population composition began to change: The merchants who originally lived there had moved to the outskirts since the Hamburg fire and the lifting of the gate in 1861. In their place, poorer strata of the population moved into the houses in the old town, which are now often in need of renovation. Most of the Grimms was destroyed in the Hamburg firestorm in 1943 . Houses that were still preserved in 1961 were Grimm 12, 14 and 16 (formerly Grimm 20, 19, 18). From Grimm 31 the grand ceiling is obtained, since the opening of the Museum of Hamburg History , 1922, the merchant hall decorated inside the museum.
Remarks
- ^ Martin Krieger: Geschichte Hamburgs CH Beck, 2006 ISBN 3-406-53595-X p. 24
literature
- Hermann Heckmann : Baroque and Rococo in Hamburg, Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990
- Henny Wiepking, ed. Otto Krahn, Hamburg 1961
- luz: Grimm. In: Franklin Kopitzsch and Daniel Tilgner (eds.): Hamburg Lexikon.
Web links
- Ralf Lange : Grimm's fairy tale: once upon a time
- "Map of Hamburg 1868" with street search and interactive map
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 45 ″ E