Kröpeliner Strasse
The Kröpeliner Street is the main shopping street in the historic center of Rostock . The Neuer Markt and the Kröpeliner Tor form the two endpoints of today's shopping mile.
The street is known for its traditional, often faithfully restored gabled houses with their lavishly designed and colorful facades. In the Kröpeliner Straße there are buildings of different style epochs - including brick Gothic and Renaissance of the Hanseatic era , classicism, baroque, historicism and postmodernism. The lively university square on the street is particularly worth seeing .
In 1961 the tram was relocated to Lange Straße , and in 1968 it was redesigned as a pedestrian zone , one of the first pedestrian zones in the GDR. The Kröpeliner Straße is visited by around 5000 people every hour. One of the reasons for this is the wide range of shopping opportunities. Over 250 shops offer their goods on a total sales area of over 6.2 hectares.
course
Kröpeliner Strasse is located in the center of Rostock. It runs parallel to Langen Strasse and Wallstrasse in an east-west orientation from the Neuer Markt to the Kröpeliner Tor . The streets connecting them to Lange Straße are Kuh- , Apostel- , Pädagogien- and Breite Straße , Eselföterstraße , Faule Grube and Ziegenmarkt. The Kleine and Große Katthagen , Schwaansche Strasse , Rungestrasse , Buchbinderstrasse and Kistenmacherstrasse branch off to the south . The Kröpeliner Straße extends a total of 650 meters. Houses with the house numbers from 1 to 99 can be found along this length, with the counting starting at the southeast corner. The center of the street is formed by the university square with the main building of the university and the "fountain of joie de vivre".
history
Names
Kröpeliner Strasse did not always have its current name. Only since 1945 has the entire section between Neuem Markt and Kröpeliner Tor been given a uniform name, until it was de-Stalinized as Stalinstrasse , and since then as Kröpeliner Strasse. Previously, only the section of street between Kröpeliner Tor in the west and Universitätsplatz (formerly Neustädtischer or Hopfenmarkt, then Blücherplatz) was called Kröpeliner Straße. The section between Breiter Strasse and the Faulen Grube, which was filled in in 1790, was called Hopfenmarkt, from there to Neuer Markt the street was called Blutstrasse. The name Blutstraße was derived from the Low German word “blot”, which means “just, unpaved”. The uniform affiliation of Kröpeliner Straße to the Stadtmitte district has only existed since 1945. Until then, Blutstraße belonged to the old Mittelstadt and the western sections, i.e. the Hopfenmarkt and Kröpeliner Straße, belonged to the Neustadt.
The origin of the name Kröpeliner Straße is still disputed. On the one hand, the street name could refer to the city of Kröpelin , which is located west of the Hanseatic city of Rostock. On the other hand, the name could come from the patrician and councilor family of the same name who once lived in Rostock.
Former traffic routes
In 1881 the first horse-drawn railroad tram ran through Rostock. The so-called “Rostocker Pipenbahn” crossed the old town on a total of three lines. One of the lines also stopped at Kröpeliner Strasse. The new market was served on all lines. In 1904 the first electrically operated railway was put into operation. In the following years, the tram network was gradually converted to electrical operation. In the course of the redesign of the Neuer Markt, tram traffic through Kröpeliner Strasse and Kröpeliner Tor was discontinued. As of May 20, 1961, the trains no longer ran through the narrow pedestrian zone in Kröpeliner Strasse. Instead, the rails were relocated to the parallel Lange Straße.
building
Kröpeliner Straße forms Rostock's medieval city center. That's why there are many historic buildings here. Above all, gabled buildings in the baroque , classicist and historicist styles characterize the streetscape. The core of some of the houses dates back to the Middle Ages.
- Ratschow House
The so-called Ratschow House is the only building on Kröpeliner Straße with a Gothic brick facade . This makes it one of the most important of the few surviving medieval profane buildings in Rostock. Its stepped gables with battlements, glazed stones, terracotta reliefs and medallions are particularly remarkable. The facade of the house is also richly decorated with medallions with biblical scenes and an ornamental frieze made of molded bricks with lions and rosettes. The building is called Ratschow House because the Ratschow family's linen, linen and bedding business was located there from the beginning of the 20th century until the Second World War. In 1945 it was set on fire by freed marauding slave laborers and burned down completely. From 1950 it was rebuilt behind the preserved gable. From 1961 it served as the city's public library and today it houses the Rostock city library .
- Rostocker Hof
The Rostocker Hof is located in the houses at Kröpeliner Straße 26 to 28. The building complex, which three old gabled houses had to give way, celebrated its topping-out ceremony in 1888 and was opened as a hotel in the same year. Since then, various hotel owners such as Max Hoth, Heinrich Wachtendorf or Otto Freitag have taken over the management of the hotel. The Rostocker Hof later became the number one hotel in Rostock through constant renovation and expansion of capacities . In 1945 the Soviet city command moved into the building, in the following years the district administration of the Ministry for State Security , which moved to August-Bebel-Straße at the end of the 1950s. The University of Rostock later used the building as a library. After 1990 the building was demolished while retaining the facade and part of the entrance area. Today there is a hotel and a shopping arcade in the building.
- Baroque hall and ducal palace
The Ducal Palace was built in 1714. This is where the Mecklenburg dukes resided when they were in charge of government in Rostock. There are stucco ceilings in the halls that are well worth seeing. The baroque hall was built in 1750 as a comedy house as an extension to the ducal palace in late baroque style by the French architect Jean Laurent Legeay .
- Kröpeliner Tor
The Kröpeliner Tor , a 54 meter high Gothic brick building, is part of the Rostock city fortifications , which were built in the 13th and 14th centuries. The function of the prestige object was assigned to the gate due to its location: Located on the west side of Rostock, it awaited all those who visited Rostock on the trade route from Wismar or Lübeck. With its imposing size, the Kröpeliner Tor should convey the reputation and importance of the city to commercial travelers. A tram line ran through the gate until 1960. Today the Rostock History Society has its seat here.
literature
- Heinrich Trost (ed.); Gerd Baier et al. (Edit.): The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , p. 346ff.
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Revised by Hans-Christian Feldmann. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 466 ff.
- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade publishing house, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
Web links
- Rostocker Kröpi - one of the most popular shopping streets in Eastern Germany. In: NNN . 17th July 2012.
Single receipts
- ↑ Neuer Markt 14th neu-markt.info, accessed on October 2, 2016 .
- ^ Rostock: Stalinstrasse and Kröpliner Tor. In: Postcards Lexicon. Retrieved May 19, 2011 .
- ↑ Ernst Münch, Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. 2006, p. 85.
- ^ History. ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RSAG website. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
- ↑ The history of local transport in Rostock has a name. Depot website12. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 19 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 6 ″ E