Small Gröpelgrube

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The location of the Kleine Gröpelgrube, marked in red on a city map from 1910
The Kleine Gröpelgrube, view from the Große Burgstrasse down
The Kleine Gröpelgrube 11
The Kleine Gröpelgrube 24–30

The Kleine Gröpelgrube is a street in Lübeck's old town .

location

The approximately 100 meter long Kleine Gröpelgrube is located in the northeast part of the old town island, the Jakobi Quartier . It begins at the Große Burgstraße and leads down the slope in an easterly direction until it ends at the square-like meeting of the Wakenitzmauer , Rosenpforte and Rosenstraße .

history

The name of the Kleiner Gröpelgrube is not, as is sometimes assumed, derived from the grape , a long-legged kettle that was characteristic of Lübeck kitchens in earlier times. Rather, the origin lies in the word Groper , an old Low German term for potters who settled in this area in the early days of Lübeck because of the existing deposits of yellow clay and who thus gave their names to the Kleine and Große Gröpelgrube . The street names documented in writing prove this derivation from the earliest times:

  • 1297: Parva platea lutifigulorum ( Latin , Little Pottery Street)
  • 1334: Parva Gropergrove (Latin-Low German, small pottery pit)
  • 1427: Parva ollarum fossa (small pot pit)
  • 1456: Lutke Gropengetergrove (a misinterpretation that refers the street name to grape pourer, i.e. boiler maker)
  • 1459: Lütke Gropergrove
  • 1608: Gropergrove

The current name was officially established in 1852.

Buildings

  • Kleine Gröpelgrube 11 : Renaissance eaves house dating back to the last quarter of the 14th century from the first half of the 17th century
  • Kleine Gröpelgrube 17 : Renaissance stepped gable house dating back to the first half of the 14th century , built between 1590 and 1610
  • Kleine Gröpelgrube 24/26/28/30 : Renaissance terraced houses dating back to the 14th century from the first half of the 17th century with a shared roof structure. Nos. 24, 26 and 30 were redesigned in a classical style around 1800

Corridors and courtyards

The following Lübeck corridors and courtyards lead from the Kleiner Gröpelgrube (according to house numbers):

  • 18: five-stall gang
  • 26: Children's panties gang

literature

  • W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
  • W. Brehmer: Lübeck house names along with contributions to the history of individual houses. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1890.
  • Klaus J. Groth : World Heritage Lübeck - Listed Houses. Over 1000 portraits of the listed buildings in the old town. Listed alphabetically by streets. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-1231-7 .
  • Max Hoffmann: The streets of the city of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Jg. 11, 1909, ISSN  0083-5609 , pp. 215-292 (also special print: 1909).

Web links

Commons : Kleine Gröpelgrube  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '20.87 "  N , 10 ° 41' 28.91"  E