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The location of the Kleiner Schrangen, marked in red on a city map from 1910
Carl Julius Milde : View over the Upper Schrangen to the Marienkirche, 1847

The Kleine Schrangen was a street in the old town of Lübeck .

location

The 100 meter long Kleine Schrangen was in the center of the city and was located in the north-west corner of the Johannis Quartier . It began in the Breite Straße opposite the office building and, as a narrow cross street, represented the connection to the parallel Königstraße .

history

Since the 13th century, the butcher's stalls ( Schrangen in Low German , literally originally barriers in the old sense of tables or counters ) have been in a square on Breite Straße, opposite the current office building. This place formed the area actually called Schrangen. Two narrow streets formed the entrance from Königstrasse, of which the southern one was first mentioned in a document in 1294 with the Latin name platea praeconum ( court servant street). The name referred to the Frohnerei located here , which was the official residence of the municipal Büttel and served as a place of execution for court-imposed sentences and as a prison . The Low German names Boddelstrate (1458) and Bodelstrate (1471), both of which mean Büttelstraße , also refer to this. The merrymaking was stopped in 1840.

Until 1845, the Lübeck butchers were legally required to sell meat exclusively on the Schrangen. After this regulation was repealed, the booths lost their function, as the butchers now preferred to offer their goods in their houses. The stalls were demolished and the space that had now become free was planted with trees. The name Schrangen was increasingly transferred to the streets leading up from Königstraße, and this development was confirmed in 1884 when the northern street was officially given the name Alter Schrangen , which had already been used for a long time , and the southern one became the Kleiner Schrangen . The square that represented the actual Schrangen had already been built on with a newly built syringe house in 1852 and had completely disappeared.

In 1928 and 1929 the buildings between the old and the small Schrangen were demolished along their entire length between Breiter Straße and Königstraße and a new, square-like street was created. The two alleys formally ceased to exist in 1931 and merged into the newly created cupboards .

  • The small Schrangen

  • View from Kleiner Schrangen to St. Mary's Church

  • View into the Kleine Schrangen from Breite Straße

literature

  • W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
  • 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).
  • The jurisprudence of the Higher Appeal Court of the four free cities in Germany in civil cases from Lübeck. Volume 1: 1848/55. Verlag Hermann Gesenius, Bremen 1866, ZDB -ID 513049-9 .