Small waterway
The Kleine Wasserstraße in Rostock is a street in the historic core of the Hanseatic city . It leads from the intersection Vogelsang / Große Mönchenstraße / Krämerstraße in a south-easterly direction and joins the Große Wasserstraße after about 240 meters . It is part of the former Rostock Mittelstadt .
history
Today's Kleine Wasserstraße was not built until after the Second World War, when the historic street lines were not completely restored in the course of the reconstruction after the severe destruction in April 1942, especially in the area between Marienkirche and Grubenstraße . The historical street names were also not fully used. Therefore, today's Kleine Wasserstraße was joined from three originally independent streets:
Kleine Bäckerstrasse
The Kleine Bäckerstraße , first mentioned in 1395 as platea parva pistorum, began at the above-mentioned intersection in the north, where the city scales were located until the 19th century . In the south it was limited by the intersection with the no longer existing Kronenstrasse and the Fischbank , the central part of which was once known as the Große Bäckerstrasse . It owes its name to the bakery trade and was quite modestly built. During the great city fire in 1677 and the bombing raids of April 1942 it was completely destroyed.
Kibbenibberstrasse
Kibbenibberstrasse , first mentioned in 1365 , connected to Kleine Bäckerstrasse and was bordered in the south by the intersection with Grosse Scharren and Weißgerberstrasse . Its Low German name means something like Streitschnabelstraße . Because of its proximity to the city court, the mid-town bailiff, who was a court usher and executioner, lived on Kibbenibberstrasse. The Kibbenibberstraße was completely destroyed twice.
Small waterway
The actual Small Waterway was located between Kibbenibberstraße in the north and the confluence of the Great Waterway in the south. It was first attested in 1292 as the Hutfilterstraße or platea pileatorum . Hat filters were artisans who specialized in hat making. While booths dominated the north of the street , there were a few gabled houses in the southeast . The development of the Kleine Wasserstraße , which has borne this name since the 19th century, suffered severe damage in the Second World War.
Today's Small Waterway has almost the same length as the Great Waterway because of this merging .
From an architectural point of view, Kleine Wasserstraße 25 and 26 are worth mentioning. Number 25 is a plastered merchant's house with a stepped gable from 1500. Number 26 is a 14th-century house with a classicist facade. In the northern sections of the Kleine Wasserstraße , sober residential buildings from the post-war period, similar to those of the Fischbank or the Große Mönchenstraße, dominate .
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- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 20.6 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 32.7 ″ E