Kohlmarkt (Lübeck)

The Kohlmarkt in Lübeck, view from Holstenstrasse

Holstenstrasse, corner of Kohlmarkt around 1906

A look down the Kohlmarkt around 1908

The Kohlmarkt, marked in red on a city map from 1910

The Kohlmarkt is a street in Lübeck's old town .

location

The Kohlmarkt in the Marien-Quartier runs directly south of the market in an east-west direction. It begins at the convergence of Sandstrasse , Wahmstrasse and Breiter Strasse , and after about 100 meters ends at the intersection with Schmiedestrasse and Schüsselbuden and turns into Holstenstrasse .

history

The current name is not derived from cabbage , but from charcoal , which was traded here in the Middle Ages . In 1291 the street, at that time still part of the market, was first mentioned in a document as forum carbonum (charcoal square). Originally there were only houses on the south side, while there were stalls belonging to the market on the north side. The term Kolmarked occupied in 1297, 1311 Kalenmarck , 1608 Kaelmarkt and 1629 Kahelmarkt . The current name was officially established in 1852.

The western part of the street was only temporarily given the proper name Holstenmarkt around 1700 .

Buildings

The buildings on the Kohlmarkt were almost completely destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . Only the building Commerz bank in Lübeck (later Handelsbank in Lübeck , today German bank , Kohlmarkt 7-13), 1909/10 in Homeland Security style built, could after the war be repaired and shapes simply by its size the streetscape. Directly following this to the west was one of the most important Renaissance houses in the city with a rich ornamentation of building ceramics from the workshop of Statius von Düren . Despite the largely preserved facade, it was not rebuilt after 1942. The other buildings are simple buildings from the post-war period, especially the so-called Südriegel built in 1954 , a low row of commercial buildings that separates Kohlmarkt from the market . During the reconstruction after the Second World War , the street was also considerably widened, so that the current spatial effect no longer gives an impression of the historically evolved situation.

Bank from 1909/10 (Kohlmarkt 7–13)
In December 1910 the Commerz-Bank moved into its new building in Lübeck

References

literature

Wilhelm Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
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 .
Historical society of the Deutsche Bank (Hrsg.): The Deutsche Bank in Lübeck (= series Piper 4776). Piper, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-492-24776-8 .
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 : Kohlmarkt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Historical photos and postcards
Post-war redesign of the intersection Kohlmarkt, Breite Straße, Wahmstraße, Sandstraße, Lübeck (plans by Erich Blunck that were not carried out)

Individual evidence

↑ Illustration and description by: Manfred Finke: Unesco World Heritage Site of Lübeck Old Town. City monument of the Hanseatic era. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-01335-8 , p. 232.

53.86609 10.68467Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '57.9 " N , 10 ° 41' 4.8" E

[1] Illustration and description by: Manfred Finke: Unesco World Heritage Site of Lübeck Old Town. City monument of the Hanseatic era. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-01335-8 , p. 232.