Crooked cross street

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The location of the Krumme Querstraße, marked in red
The crooked cross street
The former Krumme Querstraße, now the southern part of Straight Querstraße, in 2010 before the start of the redesign of the founding quarter , for which the entire development on the right side of the street was removed

The Krumme Querstraße was a street in the old town of Lübeck .

location

The approximately 60-meter-long Krumme Querstraße was located in the Marien Quartier on the western edge of the old town island and ran in a north-south direction. It began on Alfstrasse , diagonally across from the junction of Straight Querstrasse , and ended on Fischstrasse , across from Einhäuschen Querstrasse .

history

The Krumme Querstraße was first mentioned in 1558 as the Krumme Dwasstraße . The name was derived from the shape of the narrow street, which described a sharp swerve about halfway and was accordingly crooked. For the same reason, the name crooked elbow was still used for the street at the end of the 19th century .

In 1852 the traditional name Krumme Dwasstraße was officially set, but in 1884 it was changed to Krumme Querstraße .

The street, lined with historical buildings along its entire length and spanned by several candle arches , was completely destroyed in the air raid on March 29, 1942 , the ruins were later removed, so that after the end of the war there was actually only a fallow area at the site of the officially still existing Krumme Querstraße. In the course of the reconstruction in the 1950s , a new street was built, but its course was not congruent with the old one; it was not only wider and absolutely straight, but was also laid out as a direct extension of the straight cross street to which it was added in 1956. The Krumme Querstraße was abolished and deleted from the street directory.

literature

  • W. 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 .
  • 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).

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 4.9 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 52.8"  E