Behind the town hall
The short street behind the town hall in Rostock is a street in the historic center of the Hanseatic city . It lies between the intersection of Grosse Scharrenstrasse and An der Hege in the north on the one hand and the intersection of Grosse Wasserstraße with Pümperstrasse in the south on the other. The alley is east of the rear gable of the Rostock town hall . It is part of the Rostock Mittelstadt .
History and sights
The history of this street is inextricably linked with the town hall that dominates it. It was first mentioned in 1399 as ex opposito cellarii vini medie civitas , in German behind the wine cellar . Its original name is derived from the fact that wine could be stored and sold in the cellars of the town hall - and only there. In the Middle Ages, the town hall was primarily used as a department store. The west side was and is reserved for the back of the town hall and the gabled houses on the Neuer Markt , while gabled houses for the urban upper class were built on the east side. At the end of the 15th century, Mayor Kerkhof had the Kerkhoffhaus, later named after him, built on the corner of the Große Wasserstraße. The street was given its current name in the 17th century. In 1906/07 the city administration had the town hall built on the east side , which is connected to the town hall by a crossing over the street.
The alley behind the town hall gives an impression of the Hanseatic Rostock in its heyday like hardly any other place in the city center.
In addition to the late Gothic Kerhoffhaus, a gabled house on the west side is also worth mentioning, the narrow Walldienerhaus . It was built around 1500. The town house is a yellow-whitewashed Art Nouveau building whose transition to the town hall has a beautiful depiction of the Rostock griffin with the year 1907. In the alley you can also see the baroque over-molded, rear gable of the town hall. One notices that the town hall consists of three gabled houses combined.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 19 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 30 ″ E