Koberg (Lübeck)

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Holy Spirit Hospital on the east side
Koberg with a view of Große Burgstrasse (right edge of the picture)
Koberg with Geibel monument around 1900
Jakobikirche at Koberg from the Little Castle Street seen from
Koberg with Burrecht
North-west corner, view of the Ernestine School

The Koberg in the Jakobi Quartier is a striking square in the north of Lübeck's old town island. It is the second large market square in Lübeck after the market and forms the urban counterpart to the Klingenberg (formerly the market for forged goods) in the south. The two main axes of Lübeck's inner city street system ( Königstrasse and Breite Strasse ), which run in north-south direction, unite at both squares . The Koberg was called Geibelplatz from 1889 to 1936 , as this was the original site for the Geibel monument .

Name interpretation

  • Low German and polished from the High German Kaufberg (= name in a city map from 1830) or
  • Low German from the High German Kuhberg (= name in a city map from 1872 and in the Lübeck address book from 1868)

Does the Lübeck address books from 1834, 1838 and 1844 still say : Kaufberg or Kuhberg, a free space at the Jacobi and Heilig-Geist-Kirche, for the sale of fruit, grain and the like? Like. From 1852 a change of meaning occurs: Kaufberg s. Kuhberg and there Kuhberg or Kaufberg (text as above) . From 1868 it is said: Kuhberg also erroneously called Kaufberg… . So the second name interpretation is most likely. A Latin name - as for many other streets in Lübeck's old town - has not been handed down for this place.

Development

The Koberg is accessed by six streets:

Development

Others

The Koberg has recently been adapted to its historical appearance again by paving the entire surface and by the diagonal street layout. On the square was from November 2008 to October 2010, the square of light , an eight-by-eight-foot light sculpture by the artist Peter Turpin. The EUR 225,000 ground-level sculpture made of computer-controlled LED lights in granite channels under a glass cover was financed by the Possehl Foundation . From July 2009 it was no longer in operation and was dismantled in October 2010. In 2016, the Koberg roadway was paved to protect the surrounding historical structure

Web links

Commons : Koberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kai Dordowsky: When will Lübeck's Koberg finally shine again? . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of November 8, 2009, p. 13
  2. ^ Josephine von Zastrow, Kai Dordowsky: Koberg without art: excavators tear away light objects . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of October 14, 2010, p. 12
  3. ↑ http://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Luebeck/Huebsch-oder-haesslich-Der-neue-Koberg-ist-fast-fert from September 6, 2016

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 21 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 24 ″  E