Long Street (Rostock)

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View into Lange Straße from the tower of the Marienkirche. Behind the Unterwarnow .
Skyscraper on Langen Strasse in the style of a brick Gothic gabled house , a landmark in Rostock (formerly called the "Carl Zeiss Building")

The Lange Straße in Rostock is one of the two west-east connections in the historic city center of the Hanseatic city . It leads from the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt to the Neuer Markt . The second corresponding connection is the Kröpeliner Straße to the south .

Since 1979, the Long Street stands as a complete system under monument protection .

Geographical location

Lange Straße is part of the grid-like street system of Rostock Neustadt . The streets Himmelfahrtsstraße , Fischerstraße , Grapengießerstraße , Badstüberstraße , Schnickmannstraße , Wokrenterstraße and the Lagerstraße , which is the border to the Mittelstadt , flow across to it in the direction of the city harbor on the Unterwarnow . In addition, seven streets led from Langen Strasse to Kröpeliner Strasse in a southerly direction: Baustrasse , Kuhstrasse , Apostel- , pedagogy and Breite Strasse , as well as Eselföterstrasse and Faule Grube .

history

Before World War II

Historically, the Lange Straße was of minor importance in contrast to the southern traffic axis formed today from Kröpeliner Straße, Hopfenmarkt and Blutstraße. Simple functional buildings, booths and simpler gabled houses stood here. However, the quality of the buildings increased towards the east. Until the construction of the Steintor suburb at the turn of the century before last, it was the longest street in Rostock. Many houses on Langen Strasse were rebuilt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the historicism style. B. the Mecklenburg Higher Regional Court (number 65) on the corner of Badstüberstrasse. The historic Lange Strasse was largely destroyed during the four-night bombing by the Royal Air Force in World War II from April 23 to 27, 1942, only a few buildings remained standing in the section between Schnickmannstrasse and Wokrenterstrasse.

reconstruction

Construction work 1957 (south side)

concept

In the course of the reconstruction of the inner city, which began in 1949, the government of the GDR wanted to underline the appearance of the city as the most important port in the republic with a magnificent, monumental main line. It should symbolize the new, socialist Rostock. On January 30, 1953, Walter Ulbricht laid the foundation stone for the new main street, which was also extended: on the eastern side around the historic Schmiedestraße (between the corner of Lagerstraße and Burgwall) and the alley at the Marienkirche (north of the Marienkirche between the corner of Burgwall and Koßfelderstraße), on the other side around the Bussebart and Beim Grünen Tor streets to the west . Furthermore, the three out of ten houses on the north side of the Neuer Markt that had been preserved during the Second World War were demolished so that Lange Strasse was directly connected to the Neuer Markt. From 1953 to 1957 it was called the National Construction Road .

Development

House of Shipping and Hotel Warnow, April 1967
Haus der Schiffahrt and Hotel Warnow on a GDR postage stamp from 1969

As in the meantime refuted supposedly originally projected in the style of socialist classicism , decorative elements of the north German brick Gothic such as rosettes , stepped gables and pinnacles were used for the facade design . Later buildings erected in the 1960s have less site-specific facade details, but their materiality is in line with the local building tradition. The “House of Shipping” in the west was built in the international style , but the closed wall surfaces were clad with brick.

Both in its width and in the height of its buildings, the new Lange Straße stood out from the medieval dimensions of its surroundings. Due to its planned function as a parade street, it was three times as wide as the historical original, except that it did not exceed the height of the neighboring Marienkirche . Its tallest building is the house on the corner of Schnickmannstrasse , crowned with a copper turret and bell cage , which replaces the Jakobikirche in the silhouette of the city that burned out during the war, later collapsed and finally demolished in 1960 . Because of its width and the resulting traffic, Lange Straße still represents a barrier between the so-called northern old town and the city center.

Rust-colored steles along Langen Strasse mark the positions of the roads leading north and south in the historic Rostock road network.

traffic

Motorized modes of transport have shared Lange Strasse since the GDR era. Photo taken in 1990

Two lanes were available for motorized traffic. In order to relieve the city center of through traffic, the Neuer Markt was largely closed to motor traffic in 2003 and the connecting road to the street Am Strande was completed in August 2007 . As a result, the volume of traffic on Langen Strasse has decreased significantly. Today, drivers can leave Lange Strasse in a northerly direction via Badstüberstrasse and Burgwall , and to the south via Pädagogienstrasse and Faule Grube .

In 1960 the tram was moved from the narrow Kröpeliner Straße to Lange Straße . It has two stops there today: Kröpeliner Tor , at the western end and Lange Straße , roughly in the middle. The next stop is then already on the Neuer Markt. This tram route through Lange Straße is part of the Rostock tram ring around the city center and is used by lines 1, 4, 5 and 6.

See also

  • The Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin was regarded as a model and is a comparable urban development project from the early days of the GDR “reconstruction” after the war.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lange Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Aerial photos

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German photo library: Carl Zeiss building

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 24 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  E