Kuhstrasse (Rostock)
The Kuhstraße in Rostock is a historic street in the city center of the Hanseatic city . It connects Lange Strasse in the north with Kröpeliner Strasse in the south. The Kuhstrasse was in the western periphery of the former Rostock Neustadt .
history
Of the seven parallel streets that connect the city's two west-east axes today, Kuhstrasse is the westernmost. It was first mentioned in 1288 as platea vaccarum . The Kuhstraße, like its no longer existing western parallel street, the Baustraße , probably got its name from the fact that some residents of the western periphery of the city earned their living in the fields and pastures west of the city walls. In medieval Rostock, urban and rural life were interwoven.
Mainly butchers, artisans, horse traders and day laborers lived in the street, accordingly mostly booths were built in Kuhstraße. Only two gabled houses are attested.
As a result of the four-day bombing of the British Air Force on Rostock at the end of April 1942, both Kuhstraße and Baustraße were completely destroyed; in the northern area between Kröpeliner Tor and Kuhstraße only one building by the Laager architect Paul Korff remained . This vacant lot was supposed to last for over 60 years.
After the Second World War, the course of Kuhstrasse remained, but the name Kuhstrasse was deleted from the address books . The construction road, however, was not even rebuilt in its course and is almost forgotten today. In the 1960s, the Warnow Hotel was built on the north-west side as a panel construction , and a gastronomic complex was built on the west side. The hotel and restaurants were connected by a crossing over Kuhstraße. In 2003, the Warnow Hotel was demolished in favor of a new hotel building in clinker construction. In the same year the Kuhstrasse got its old name back.
In 2007, the Kröpeliner Tor Center shopping arcade between Kröpeliner Tor and Kuhstrasse opened its doors. This closed a 65-year-old vacant lot.
source
- Ernst Münch , Ralf Mulsow: The old Rostock and its streets. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 50 ″ E