Episcopal hostel
The Bischofsherberge is a listed former town house of the bishops of Ratzeburg and later the (grand) dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the Große Burgstrasse 11 in Lübeck , but it has also been in decline for years.
history
In the Middle Ages, when the hotel business - as we know it today - was still unthinkable, people bought a house if they were often active here.
In 1444, the Hamburg council bought the property at Klingberg 1, which served the Hamburg councilors present as a dump . In the linguistic usage at the time it was the Hamburg hostel . Later, and then until 1942, it was Lübeck's Hotel Stadt Hamburg . House number 1 on the spot. The Kaiser , Thomas Mann and the Comedian Harmonists descended in it.
The abbot of the Reinfeld monastery had his quarters in Marlesgrube 73 and 75 , the delegates of the council to Rostock lived in Fleischhauerstraße 28 .
The Bischofsherberge is one of two Ratzeburg townhouses in Lübeck. The Ratzeburg cathedral chapter also owned a town house in Lübeck. It was opposite the Katharinenkirche on the corner of Königstrasse and Pfaffenstrasse and was sold to Lübeck merchants in 1551.
The property was first mentioned in 1289 and built on in 1324.
In 1491 Bernt Meyer acquired the property from Ersamen Rade to Lübeke Hoffsmyt . However, in the same year he sold it to the bishop of Ratzeburg, Johannes (1479–1511), to whom it owed the name Episcopal Hostel.
Bishop Henricus , John's successor, died in the bishop's hostel.
In 1524 a meeting took place in Lübeck between representatives of the Pope, the Emperor, England, the Netherlands, Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg to negotiate the reinstatement of the expelled King Christian of Denmark . Duke Albrecht von Mecklenburg and Bishop Henricus von Ratzeburg took part. When the latter wanted to return home - to the bishop's hostel - one evening, when he had been to dinner at the Duke's invitation , he was hit on the way. Paralyzed and speechless, he had to lie on the sickbed for five months before he died on October 2, 1524. He was transferred to Schönberg and buried there in the church in front of the altar. Since Duke Magnus von Lauenburg was hostile to him, he was denied a burial in the Ratzeburg Cathedral , the episcopal church.
When the house became dilapidated at the end of the 16th century, the cathedral chapter had it demolished and rebuilt in 1588. This number can be found in the wall anchor on the gable front. The wife of the diocese administrator, the Duke of Mecklenburg, Christoph , contributed 2,000 Reichstaler to this house . She mortgaged her house for this. It is said that as soon as it was built in 1589, the neighbors cheered over the stone-carved pediment.
According to the description by Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch , who had an inventory from 1795, the three-story house had two Mecklenburg coats of arms above the door, below in the house is a hallway paved with field stones, a room and kitchen, in the north wing 2 rooms, in the south a chamber, a shed, a small room; 2 cellars under the house. On the second floor at the front an anteroom, 2 rooms and a chamber; living room and chamber in the northern wing, two chambers in the southern wing. On the third floor the front floor, living room and 2 chambers and above the house floor. The Zwerchhaus -Giebel the eaves permanent building was originally hewn stones decorated.
At the same time, the plastered facade was given a classicist design with profiled plaster cornices .
Between the city of Lübeck and the owners of the house, i.e. first the administrators of the monastery, then from 1648 the dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and from 1701 the dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in their capacity as princes of Ratzeburg , there was a long-lasting dispute because of Ratzeburg side house and property were viewed as an exclave , whose residents were exempt from Lübeck taxes and sovereignty .
From 1648 it served as the Mecklenburg-Schwerin post office ; after the Hamburg comparison (1701) , however, this stopped. The house became an inn and relaxation area , but only farmers and traders from Schönberg (Mecklenburg) and the Ratzeburg region were allowed to stop there.
In 1720 it was leased to the innkeeper Isaac Ree . Only residents of the Principality of Ratzeburg are allowed to visit there. The council did not want to allow Lübeckers. The tenant had to undertake in a contract to be loyal, kind and willing to the Mecklenburg duke, to avoid all errors with the council, but to ensure the traditional justice of the house and to recognize the Ratzeburg government as his sole ordinary authority and to appear in front of it. Lübeck only used him for watch and lamp money. Until the abolition in 1754, the Schönberg farmers also had the privilege of being free from stables and were able to store their horses in the transept.
These special rights ended the French era.
In 1812 the Ratzeburg government felt compelled to sell the house and yoke. Zühlcke, tenant since 1797, bought it for 700 Reichstaler. The address books name Zühlcke, who died in 1833, as the host of the bishop's hostel . Only when Joh. Hinr. Schacht had acquired the house in 1841 and gave it the name that led it to the end - Zum Großherzog von Mecklenburg .
The house remained a popular pub and relaxation area among the Mecklenburgers. From 1841 until it was closed at the end of the 20th century, it was called Zum Großherzog von Mecklenburg .
As a special feature of the inn, it is noted in 1933 that it belonged to the recipients to whom a Schönberg Easter flatbread was still being delivered at that time . He used to weigh 16 pounds. A report from 1812 called this delivery a custom that went back into gray antiquity .
The front building has been under monument protection since 1967, and the entire property development with the front building, double wing system and transverse building since 1992 . Despite multiple renovations, there are still room structures from the 16th century, especially in the wings, and room furnishings from the baroque to the 19th century. Today the house in need of renovation stands empty. It is owned by an association with which the city of Lübeck has been negotiating for a long time.
literature
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch: History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835, p. 417f. (Full text)
- Klaus J. Groth: Lübeck World Heritage Site: listed houses. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-1231-7 , p. 194.
- The bishop's hostel. In: Father-city sheets . Lübeck, April 1, 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Secret world in the old castle. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . February 1, 2007; Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ↑ The historic hostel is slowly falling apart. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 31, 2015; accessed on August 1, 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '25 " N , 10 ° 41' 27.7" E