Mecklenburgstrasse

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No. 10-12: Bank
No. 19–23: Kressmann department store

The Mecklenburgstraße is the 1,000 meter long central shopping street in Schwerin . It leads from the old town in a north-south direction from Pfaffenteich / Arsenalstrasse to Graf-Schack-Allee / Platz der Jugend in der Feldstadt .

Back streets

The side and connecting streets were named as Arsenalstraße after the Arsenal am Pfaffenteich , Schmiedestraße after the job, Helenenstraße after Helene Hereditary Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , 3rd Narrow Street after the Narrow Street, Schloßstraße after the Schwerin Castle to which it leads (formerly Mühlenstraße and Burgstraße), Klosterstraße (1851 Hinterm Klosterhof) after the Franciscan monastery Schwerin (1236–1548), Geschwister-Scholl - Straße after the resistance fighters, Heinrich-Mann- Straße after the writer, unnamed way, Graf-Schack-Allee after the Poet, art and literary historian Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815–1894) and Platz der Jugend.

history

Surname

1962: National Unity Road

Around 1846 the northern part up to Schmiedestrasse was named Poststrasse and the southern part was still called Fließgrabenstrasse up to what was then Mühlenstrasse, today's Schloßstrasse . From 1874 to 1939 it was called Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße and then until 1950 Bismarckstraße .

From 1950 the street was called National Unity Street . From 1971 to around 1991 it became Hermann-Maternstrasse , named after the KPD and SED politician (1893–1971) who worked in Berlin . In 1991, when the national unity previously contained in the name was achieved, it became Mecklenburgstrasse .

development

No. 2: House of Culture
No. 4/6: Schwerin main post office , neo-renaissance
No. 41/43: 1920s

In the Middle Ages (map from after 1340 ) the city wall was east of the road between Pfaffenteich (formerly Mühlenteich) and Mühle (today corner of Schloßstraße ). To the west of the wall was the river ditch, which flowed next to the street Hinterm Klosterhof (today Klosterstraße) to the castle lake .

In the 19th century the road ran on both sides of the river ditch from the Pfaffenteich and ended at Mühlenstraße (today Schloßstraße). The medieval Count Mill, which was operated until 1853, received its water from this. The inner mill Schwerin (Schloßstraße 30, corner of Mecklenburgstraße), called Grafenmühle , was a watermill in Schwerin that played an important role for the city for around 700 years since 1217.

Palace builder Georg Adolf Demmler built his surviving residential and office building on the corner of Fließgraben (today Mecklenburgstrasse) and Kütergang (today Arsenalstrasse) in 1842. The former Alte Post was built around 1846 and it changed the street scene considerably up to Schmiedestrasse; From 1892 to 1897 the larger Schwerin main post office was built on the same site.

Increasing development took place from 1843 to the end of the 19th century in the northern part up to Schloßstraße. Only then were the northern areas of the Burgsee filled with household waste and rubble. With the road expansion, the flow ditch was piped. From around 1908 until the 1950s, the tram ran on one track. In 1926 Rudolf Honig and Carl Kreßmann's (1897–1975) textile store was built , which was expropriated in 1946 and has been in operation again since 1991 as the Kressmann department store . In the 1970s, the northern part of the street was converted; which is now also known as the boulevard as a pedestrian zone on the same level .

As part of urban development funding , the old town of Schwerin was redeveloped in 1991 and, from the mid-1990s, the northern area was converted into a pedestrian zone and one of Schwerin's main shopping streets. After the renovation of Marienplatz , the focus of shopping shifted to this traffic junction.

In terms of traffic, the street at nearby Marienplatz is opened up by tram lines 1, 2 and 4 as well as bus lines 5, 7, 10, 12, 14 and 19 of Nahverkehr Schwerin GmbH .

Buildings, plants

No. 71, Art Nouveau

There are mostly three to five-story buildings on the street. The houses marked with ( D ) are under monument protection.

  • No. 1 / Arsenalstrasse No. 10: 3-gesch. historicizing Demmler house as a residential and commercial building in Tudor style ( D ), former residential building from 1843 by the architect Georg Adolf Demmler (1804–1886) with an octagonal corner tower, today u. a. with customer service from Stadtwerke Schwerin (SWS)
  • No. 2 / Arsenalstrasse 8: 3-gesch. Classical House of Culture (HDK) ( D ), formerly Stern's Hotel, then seat of the Kulturbund , today u. a. Seat of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and restaurants
  • No. 3: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building ( D ) with a mansard roof
  • No. 4/6: 3-ply historicizing main post office Schwerin from 1897 in the style of the neo-renaissance ( D ) with lateral 7-fold. Clock tower; three distinctive baroque gable projections based on plans by the secret post office building officer Ernst Hake ; Memorial plaque against fascism and war. Before: From the 14th century building of the bishop's residence with bishop's court , from 1821 to 1843 location of the artillery battery and Prinzenhof , 1846 to 1892 3-storied. Old post office
  • No. 5: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building and courtyard building ( D ) with a medium gable risalit
  • No. 7: residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 8: 3-sch. Building with a distinctive stepped gable, today a restaurant and offices
  • Schmiedestraße 23: 3-storey. Residential and commercial building with a bank
  • No. 9: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 10/12: 4-sch. Bank building, formerly a department store ( D )
  • No. 17: 3-sch. Bank, refurbished by 1996 according to plans by Joachim Brenncke , Schwerin
  • No. 18: 3-sch. Office and commercial building ( D ) with round gable
  • No. 19/21/23: 4-cut. Kressmann department store from 1926 ( D ) with 6-tiered side. Part of the tower according to plans by Hans Stoffers ; Expropriated in 1951, returned and renovated from 1991 (see also Konrad Kreßmann and Carl Kreßmann )
  • No. 20: Residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 22: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building
  • No. 23: Kressmann department store from 1926
  • No. 24: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building with gable section, loggias and bay windows
  • No. 26: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building with restaurant
  • No. 28: Residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 30: 2-sch. Half-timbered residential and commercial building
  • No. 31: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building ( D ), former warehouse
  • No. 32: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 36: Residential and commercial building ( D )
  • No. 43: Building Schloßstraße 30 : 3- to 4-storey. Residential and commercial building with a weever pharmacy , formerly inland mill Schwerin
  • Schloßstraße No. 32: 4-storey. Residential and commercial building
  • No. 41/43 at the corner of Schloßstraße 32/34: 5-storey. Schloßstraße 32/34 office building from 1928 with courtyard building ( D ); Brick facade with Expressionist influences based on plans by Paul Nehls ; ceramic figures by Maximilian Preibisch
  • No. 53: Building ( D ) with the former Schauburg film theater
  • No. 59 at the corner of Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse: 2- and 5-storeys. brick-built commercial building on Mecklenburgstrasse at the corner of Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse from 1929 ( D ) based on plans by Hans Stoffers (Schwerin); House for politics, economy and culture with the Academy Schwerin eV and a conference center
  • No. 44-48 / Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse No. 14: 4-gesch. Burgseegalerie shopping center from 1998
  • Corner of Heinrich-Mann-Straße 14/16: 3-storey. Residential and office building in the style of the Wilhelminian era ( D ) with a high basement, a striking corner tower and side gable projections
  • Corner of Heinrich-Mann-Straße No. 17: 3-storey. Residential building ( D )
  • No. 63 and 65: Two 3-tiered Art Nouveau houses with gables and bay windows
  • No. 66 and 68: Two free-standing 2-tier. Residential houses from the 1920s ( D ) with hipped roofs
  • No. 71/73: two 3-fold Residential houses ( D ) in Art Nouveau style with side gables
  • No. 75: 4-sch. plastered house ( D ) with middle gable
  • No. 77: 4-sch. clinkered house ( D ) with two side gable projections
Monument to Heinrich von Stephan
  • No. 79: 4-sch. brick-built house with two side gable projections
  • No. 83/85/87/89/91/93: six 3-sided Residential houses ( D )
  • No. 97/99: 4- and 5-layered Newer residential and commercial building from after 2000
  • Graf-Schack-Allee No. 12: 3-gesch. Office building of the IHK in Schwerin, Ludwig-Bölkow-Haus from 2010 based on plans by Hadi Teherani , Hamburg; Commendation at the State Building Prize 2012
  • No. 103/105: 4-cut. Newer residential and commercial building from after 2000
  • No. 109/111/113: 4.-Gesch. Newer residential and commercial building from after 2000
  • Parking lot Mecklenburgstrasse
  • Graf-Schack-Allee No. 20: 4- and 5-storey. new office building from after 2000 with the central pharmacy Graf Schack

Monuments, memorials

  • Street: south view

  • No. 18/20

  • No. 20

  • No. 32

  • No. 8 and cathedral

  • North view from No. 30

  • No. 28 and 30

  • No. 63/65: Art Nouveau

  • No. 73: Art Nouveau

  • North view from No. 81

literature

Web links

Commons : Mecklenburgstraße (Schwerin)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert Steinhagen: The long way to the shopping mile . In: Schweriner Volkszeitung from April 14, 2015.
  2. ^ List of architectural monuments in Schwerin
  3. ^ Margot Krempien: Schwerin castle builder GA Demmler . Demmler Verlag, Schwerin 1991, ISBN 3-910150-06-3 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 33.7 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 42.2"  E