Great waterway
The Große Wasserstraße in Rostock is a street in the historic center of the Hanseatic city. In an arched course, it leads from the Neuer Markt to the An der Viergelindenbrücke square at the southern end of Grubenstrasse . It is part of the former Rostock Mittelstadt .
course
Coming from the southeast corner of the Neuer Markt, it first heads east until it crosses Pümperstrasse and the short street Hinter dem Rathaus . Here it bends in a south-easterly direction and takes on the small waterway leading to the north . It ends at the junction at the Viergelindenbrücke , to which the Mühlenstrasse and the Beginenberg also lead. It has a relatively steep gradient from west to east.
history
Mentioned for the first time in 1418 as a waterway , its name was supplemented in the 19th century with the addition of "large" to distinguish it from the nearby small waterway . The interpretation of their name is controversial, but it is conceivable that water from the Grube (today's Grubenstrasse) was conducted via the Great Waterway to the Mittelstädtischer Born , a public fountain on the Neuer Markt.
The Great Waterway was a domicile of the urban upper class in medieval and early modern Rostock, which can be explained by the proximity of the street to the Neuer Markt. Here the wealthy citizens had mostly gabled houses, the most splendid Hanseatic building type, built. In the course of the four-night bombardment of the British Air Force at the end of April 1942, the southwest side of the Great Waterway between Neuem Markt and Pümperstraße was completely destroyed, including the Fürstenherberge . Most of the buildings on the opposite side were spared. Many vacant lots have now been replaced by suitable new buildings.
In the course of the closure of the New Market for motor vehicles in 2004, vehicle traffic on the Great Waterway has increased significantly.
Worth seeing
The Große Wasserstraße has some historically valuable buildings worth mentioning: the Große Wasserstraße number 1, a building in the style of historicism , the number 2 from the Baroque era and the Große Wasserstraße number 22, a gabled house with a baroque facade. A special eye-catcher, however, are two gabled houses with a Gothic facade, the Kerkhoffhaus , which already belongs to the alley behind the town hall and today houses the registry office and city archive, as well as the second, the Krahnstöverhaus in the southeast section of the Große Wasserstraße - a Gothic merchant's house with a splendid stepped gable, at the latest was built in the middle of the 14th century. It is one of the few surviving secular buildings in Rostock with a Gothic facade. The Krahnstöverhaus takes its name from the former liqueur factory Julius Krahnstöver , which acquired the house in 1874.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 18 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 32 ″ E