Sacrificial wete

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Sacrificial wete
coat of arms
Street in Braunschweig
Sacrificial wete
View of the Opfertwete from Reichsstrasse
Basic data
place Braunschweig
District Downtown
Hist. Names De twete achter dem parhove (The Twete ​​behind the rectory), Oppertwete, De lutke twete, De cleyne twete, Oppern Twetge (Operntwete)
Connecting roads At the Andreaskirche, Reichsstrasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic

The Opfertwete is a small alley ( Twete ) in the precincts of Neustadt the city of Braunschweig with a nearly 600-year history. It connects the Reichsstraße with the street “An der Andreaskirche” .

history

Surname

The Opfertwete got its name from the fact that at the northeast end of this lane there was a corner house that no longer exists today and was inhabited by the respective victim from the nearby St. Andrew's Church . This use is documented for the period 1388 to 1859. In 1412 the street was still called “de twete achter dem parhove” ( “the Twete ​​behind the rectory” ), in 1454 “oppertwete” , 1463 “de lutke twete” , 1496 “de cleyne twete” . In 1731, however, her name was disfigured as "Operntwete" and two years later it was called "Oppern Twetge" .

Destruction and rebuilding

In the Opfertwete there were only two houses until it was completely destroyed in the firestorm of the bombing of October 15, 1944 . After 1954, a passage to the Reichsstraße was created at the eastern end of the Twete, which is now adorned with a portal.

Detail of the portal from 1619

Portal from 1619

The Renaissance - portal at the eastern entrance to the Opfertwete from road was built there after the war. It is a portal from 1619, which was previously located in a patrician house at Wilhelmstrasse 95, which was also completely destroyed on October 15, 1944. The framing and top of the portal show extensive fittings and cartilage . The coat of arms in black and gold shows a soaring double-tailed lion. The coat of arms is initially flanked by two columns and on the outside by two halberds .

The dead in the sacrificial valley

The Opfertwete is one of the locations of the 1996 crime novel "Toter in der Opfertwete" by the Braunschweig writer Dirk Rühmann .

See also

literature

  • Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Braunschweig 1992.
  • Heinrich Meier : The street names of the city of Braunschweig. In: Sources and research on Brunswick history. Volume 1. Wolfenbüttel 1904.

Web links

Commons : Opfertwete  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Meier: The street names of the city of Braunschweig , in: Sources and research on Braunschweigische Geschichte , p. 80
  2. ↑ Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 174
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig , Part 1, Hameln 1993, p. 182
  4. ↑ Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 247
  5. ↑ Dead in the Opfertwete  ( 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. (PDF file)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bs-krimi.de  

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 6.3 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 14.7"  E