Lagerstrasse (Rostock)
The camp road in Rostock is a street in the historic center of the Hanseatic city . It is one of the streets that led in a north-south direction from Strand e (that is, the city harbor on the bank of the Unterwarnow ) to today's Long Street and the Neuer Markt . Over the cross streets Pläterstraße and Strandstraße it is with the Wokrenterstraße in the west and over the beach - and the Petersilienstraße with the castle wallconnected to the east. The camp road is about 150 meters long. Together with the Faulen Grube and Buchbinderstraße adjoining it to the south , it represented the border between the former sub-towns of Neustadt and Mittelstadt .
history
In the chronology of the first mention of Rostocker Strasse, it takes third place (1259 as platea Lagestrata ), which underlines its high status in the medieval urban fabric . This is derived from its function as a link between the port and the two marketplaces in the south. The street owes its name to a Rostock patrician family called Lawe, who may have had a connection to the Mecklenburg small town of Laage . The camp road was bordered towards the beach by the camp gate , which was not only used for defense but also to collect customs duties. Since the three Rostock sub-cities were separated from each other by watercourses, the camp road was originally laid out on the bank of a tributary of the Unterwarnow. However, this watercourse was filled in as early as the 13th century.
In keeping with its social significance, Lagerstraße was surrounded by the most representative type of building in Hanseatic cities, the gabled house , some remains of which are still hidden behind newer facades. Lagerstrasse was spared the great fire of 1677, which destroyed a good third of the city. In the 18th century, the building was adapted to the baroque taste of the time (externally). Fritz Reuter lived in Lagerstrasse 46 in 1831/32 as a (unsuccessful) law student. The southern section of the camp road was severely damaged by the four-night bombardment by the British Air Force at the end of April 1942, in which the old Rostock was largely submerged. However, the destruction was much less than in the parallel streets Burgwall and Große Mönchenstraße , so that the Lagerstraße gives an impression of the historic Rostock cityscape.
Due to the monumental reconstruction of Langen Straße from 1953, Lagerstraße lost its connection to it, but is connected to its western parallel streets via the artificially created connection path An der Oberkante .
One of the buildings worth seeing in Lagerstraße is number 32, a simple eaves house from the early 18th century. Numbers 7 and 8 are baroque, the latter being essentially medieval remains. The palace-like building at number 17, built between 1797 and 1798, is built in the classical style. It was part of the Holy Spirit Hospital. The gabled house at Lagerstraße 26 (corner of Petersilienstraße) has with its stepped gable one of the few preserved façades typical for storage houses with arched hatches on a Rostock secular building from around 1600.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 30 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 14 ″ E