Salmon weir
The salmon weir is a listed former garden restaurant in the Rococo style on the Trave in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . A daycare center has been operating in the building since 2019.
history
As early as the 15th century, there was a jug on the site of today's salmon weir. In the 18th century, staying in the countryside became fashionable among city dwellers. The wealthy citizens of Lübeck built summer houses in front of the city gates to escape the confines of the densely built-up old town island for the summer months. The citizenry, the city council, wanted to give less well-off residents the opportunity to stay outside the fortifications but close to their homes and to spend their free time there. In 1771 the city council commissioned the city architect Johann Adam Soherr to build the garden restaurant. Alongside other buildings that have survived in Lübeck, he had built the Bellevue castle, which served as a summer house, down the river for the wealthy merchant Hieronymus Küsel.
The name salmon weir is derived from the location on the Alte Trave , a dead arm of the river that was used as a fish weir . Mainly salmon were caught here . The area on the Trave in the later suburb of St. Lorenz had been in the possession of Count Adolf II von Holstein since 1188 and later came into the possession of the city. It could already be reached in the 18th century through an avenue, the Lachswehrallee. Today the restaurant with a tree-lined garden is located in a hollow because of the construction of the salmon weir bridge.
In 1852 the poet Emanuel Geibel , who had already played in the garden of the salmon weir as a child, celebrated his wedding with the 17-year-old Ada Trummer. He had sung poetically about the "quiet garden with the shady elm walkway".
The flag inauguration of the Lübeck Navy Youth took place in the garden of the former salmon weir on September 11, 1927 . The dedication speech was given by the main pastor Wilhelm Mildenstein from the Luther community . The celebration was framed by several speeches by the club officials, music and singing lectures.
In 1936 the innkeeper Hugo Junker took over the "salmon weir" from the city of Lübeck on lease. After his death, his widow Lina Junker ran the “salmon weir”. Son-in-law Roman Erben bought the restaurant in 1964. The numerous events included the bird shooting of the Lübeck Citizens' Association, many weddings of Lübeck citizens and the traditional early concert at Whitsun. In December 1977 the Lübeck Motorboot Club (LMC) bought the restaurant and property from Roman Erben.
The salmon weir was renovated and rebuilt in the 1980s. An innkeeper, supporter of Slow Food , ran the salmon weir with upscale gastronomy, but failed after several years and closed the restaurant at the end of March 2006. In 2007, the restaurant was renovated again for four months and re-leased.
After several tenant changes, the LMC board leased the building to Gemeinnützige GmbH Kinderwege in 2018 for 25 years. She took over the sponsorship of the "Babygruppe Lübeck" founded in 1978 as a parents' initiative, which has been running a day nursery and daycare center for children from one to six years old on the ground floor since May 2019. Living rooms were created on the upper floor. The construction costs for the redesign amounted to around 340,000 euros, 125,000 euros of which was borne by the public sector. Monument preservation issues were taken into account during the renovation. For example, hut-like rooms made of wood were installed, which the children can use to sleep, for example. The stucco ceilings remain visible. Structural changes such as passages were made so that they can be dismantled.
literature
- Elke P. Brandenburg: St. Lorenz . (Small booklets on city history, edited by the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , No. 17) Lübeck 2001, ISBN 3-7950-3116-8
- Annaluise Höppner: A trip to the summer houses and gardens in the old Lübeck suburbs with a little cultural history on the edge of the way Verlag der Buchhandlung Gustav Weiland Nachf., Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-87890-069-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Flag consecration of the naval youth. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1926/27, No. 26, edition of September 18, 1927, p. 106.
- ↑ Sabine Latzel: traditional restaurant Lachswehr closes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , LN-Online of March 23, 2006
- ↑ Sabine Risch: Salmon weir: the restaurant becomes a crib. In: Lübecker Nachrichten, July 31, 2018, p. 9.
- ↑ Sabine Risch: New life in the salmon weir. In: Lübecker Nachrichten, May 16, 2019, p. 11.
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 26 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 38" E