Kolk (Lübeck)
The Kolk is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The approximately 110 meter long Kolk is located on the western edge of the old town island, in the Marien Quartier . It begins on Holstenstrasse opposite the confluence of Lederstrasse and runs in a slight curve southwards, with Pagönnienstrasse and Kleine Petersgrube joining one after the other from the west until it meets the Große Petersgrube opposite the Kleine Kiesau and ends.
history
The Kolk has had his name since 1334, when it was mentioned in a document with the name To dem Kolke . Kolk referred to in Low German a depression or washout in a stream . The body of water was possibly the stream that gave its name to the subsequent Kleine Kiesau.
A good three quarters of the historical development of the Kolks has been preserved; towards Holstenstrasse, however, there is a striking exception on the west side in the form of the unadorned side wall of a department store from the 1960s , which does not fit into the frame of the narrow medieval street either in appearance or in dimensions . The old, small-scale development was already dissolved here by the Holstenhaus , a department store built before the First World War , which was demolished in 1963 in order to build a new Kepa house.
Between Pagönnienstraße and Small Petersgrube not buildings form the east side of Kolks, but a towering brick - retaining wall that the significantly higher-lying plateau of Petri Cemetery supported.
Buildings
- Kolk 14, Theater Figure Museum Lübeck . Stepped gable house of brick Gothic , built 1526/1527
- Kolk 16 , brick Gothic gabled house built in 1574. The single-axis building is one of the narrowest buildings in Lübeck.
- Kolk 20-22 , a brick renaissance cornerhouse built around 1600, whichoperatesas Kleine Petersgrube 1-3 in the neighboring street
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).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 57 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 56.2" E