Lupine Street
The Lupinenstraße until 1961 Gutemann road , known locally as the Nineteenth called, is a street in Mannheim , as brothel street for prostitution is used (about 120 to 140 women). It is the westernmost and thus the nineteenth and last cross street of Mittelstrasse on the edge of the Neckarstadt-West district .
history
Neckarstadt-West has its origins in the community gardens north of the Neckar, the "Neckar Gardens", which were completed in 1682. These were gradually released for building from 1871. Until 1892 today's Lupinenstrasse was designated as N1, between 1892 and 1902 as 19th cross street. In 1902 the originally numbered cross streets of the then "Neckarvorstadt" were given names. Until 1961 it was called Gutemannstrasse. On the north side of the Neckar gardens, a former arm of the river, the Gutemanngraben, ran along the river “Im Guten Mann”.
It was already a brothel alley during the Nazi era and was also used for prostitution during the war . The street was badly hit in a bomb attack on Mannheim in April 1943. In order to keep prostitution manageable, the street was excluded from the restricted area by the municipal council in 1961 and renamed Lupinenstraße. The name is derived from the plant lupine , but is an allusion to lupa , as public prostitutes were called in ancient Rome.
In the houses on the street, the prostitutes sit in the cobblestone windows of the 18 houses, present themselves and wait for customers or speak to the male passers-by with the window open.
swell
- Brockhaus Mannheim, 2006, p. 198
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b MARCHIVUM: street names, Lupinenstrasse. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
See also
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 12 " N , 8 ° 27 ′ 43" E