Great Monks Street
The Große Mönchenstraße in the city center of Rostock is a street in the historic middle town of the Hanseatic city .
It leads from the Mönchentor , a former port-side city gate, in a southward direction to the intersection with the Vogelsang , Kleine Wasserstraße and Krämerstraße streets . They cross the western porter road and the eastern Kleine Mönchenstrasse . Both the Große Mönchenstraße and the Kleine Mönchenstraße, which connects it with the Grubenstraße , owe their names to the Rostock merchant family Monch.
Its once great importance is evidenced by the fact that its first mention in the city books was the earliest (1257). In medieval and early modern Rostock it was the domicile of the urban upper class, the noble craftsmen, the rich merchants and the brewers who had magnificent gabled houses built. The reason for this exposed location was the close proximity to the city harbor on the one hand and the Neuer Markt on the other, the most important market square in the city. In addition, the Rostock city scales were located at the southern end of the Große Mönchenstraße until it was demolished. The entire street fell victim to the great city fire in 1677 , the land was only very slowly rebuilt, now with baroque eaves houses .
During the four-night bombing of the British Air Force at the end of April 1942, the road, with the exception of the Mönchentor, was again destroyed. In the course of the reconstruction of the old town from 1949, it was provided with uniform, white residential buildings with rough plaster. Today the Große Mönchenstraße and its immediate surroundings are quiet residential areas for inner-city conditions.
literature
- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade publishing house, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
- Heinrich Trost (ed.); Gerd Baier et al. (Edit.): The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , p. 346ff.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 28 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 27 ″ E