Petrikirchhof (Lübeck)
The Petrikirchhof is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The Petrikirchhof is located on the western edge of the old town island, in the Marien Quartier . In a broader sense, the Petrikirchhof is the open space that surrounds the Petrikirche on the north, west and south sides, but not on the east side, where Schmiedestrasse runs directly along the choir of the church.
A route of about 100 meters is dedicated and laid out as a street , which begins at Schmiedestraße and first runs along the north facade of the Petrikirche, then forms the edge of the square in front of the tower facade and ends butt before the retaining wall, below which the scour is located. So the last house of the north-facing development of the Petrikirchhof has another entrance below in the Kolk, while the ground-level entrance leads from the Petrikirchhof to the 2nd floor of the house.
At the foot of the Petrikirchtower, in front of the west facade, there is a larger, partly paved, partly paved open space, partly with lawn and trees, which together with a narrow paved strip on the south side of the church forms the square-like further Petrikirchhof.
history
The Petrikirchhof has had his name since the Petrikirche was founded, even though it was not officially established until 1852. The area served the community of St. Petri as a cemetery ; the ossuary was also located here . The steep slope to the Kolk was probably already in the late 12th or early 13th century by a monumental brick - retaining wall mounted, which forms the western edge of the cemetery today. To the north, a building block, which today mainly consists of the unadorned backs of buildings from the 1950s , separates the Petrikirchhof from Holstenstrasse . A narrow staircase, formerly called Petristegel and now nameless, connects the houses to Holstenstrasse.
The medieval ossuary on the west facade was demolished in 1837 after the inner-city cemeteries were closed in 1832. Built in 1600, with a roof turret provided morgue above the retaining wall that had been used as a frame house since 1882, however, was the bombing in 1942 destroyed.
A curiosity is the fact that the profaned Petrikirche is the only one of Lübeck's five large old town churches to have a house number, namely Petrikirchhof 1 .
Buildings
- Petrikirchhof 1, Petrikirche : brick- Gothic hall church from the 13th to 14th centuries Century
literature
- Wilhelm Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
- Wilhelm Brehmer: Lübeck house names along with contributions to the history of individual houses. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1890.
- Max Hoffmann: The streets of the city of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Jg. 11, 1909, ISSN 0083-5609 , pp. 215-292 (also special print: 1909).
- Lübeck's architecture in the present VIII. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , January 3, 1909, ISSN 0724-1410 .
Web links
- Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Sources on funeral systems (PDF file; 41 kB)
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '57.2 " N , 10 ° 40' 58" E