Lobster stalls

The lobster stalls

Hafenstrasse lined with lobster stalls

The lobster booths (more rarely lobster huts ) are former sheds and workshops of fishermen on the North Sea island of Helgoland . After the destruction of the Second World War and the resettlement of Heligoland in 1952, the lobster booths were designed by the Hamburg architect Georg Wellhausen . The color scheme came from Johannes Ufer . Gable profiles and wooden cladding are typical of his lobster booths . Before World War II, lobster sheds were inconsistent sheds in a variety of locations.

Originally, the lobster booths were considered an industrial area for Helgoland fishermen, but they have only been marketed as a tourist mile since the 1990s. The brightly painted, two-story, listed wooden huts are now used as pubs , galleries , cafes and souvenir shops ; The museum association has its headquarters in lobster booths 38 and 39, the registry office of the municipality of Helgoland also offers wedding ceremonies here - the lobster booths are now considered typically Helgoland.

The lobster stalls are located on Hafenstrasse at the inland port of the Unterland . All lobster stalls are numbered, from No. 1 (Hafenstrasse 1063) to No. 39 (Hafenstrasse 1003).

On the open-air site of the Helgoland Museum , near the North Sea Hall, there are replicated smaller lobster booths, which also house an exhibition about the children's book author James Krüss . In his book My Great Grandfather and I , he told of a lobster stall on the Helgoland Oberland . The lobster stalls now function as a Heligoland landmark.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Helgoland

Web links

Commons : Lobster Stalls  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ reisefuehrer-deutschland.de
2. ^ Portrait of the architect
3. ↑ Abendblatt.de
4. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; approx. 526 kB)
5. ↑ Website of the museum ( Memento of the original dated March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Theahamburg

Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 39.8 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 18.1 ″  E