Ratskeller in Lübeck
The Ratskeller zu Lübeck in the vaults of the basement of the Lübeck City Hall is one of the oldest Ratskeller in northern Germany.
The Ratskeller uses parts of the oldest vaulted cellars of Lübeck's town hall, the Hansesaal , which dates back to Romanesque times and is immediately to the right when you enter the Ratskeller through the main entrance from the market side and down the long stairs. The other rooms come from the Gothic style and were created in the course of the expansion of the town hall. The wine storage in the Lübeck Ratskeller is already documented for the year 1220. Already in the Middle Ages, an honorable council cellar was under special administration by the council of the Hanseatic city. Two councilors each, who were Winmestere (wine masters ), documented since 1298, were entrusted with the supervision of the council cellar. At their side were several officials under the leadership of a captain ( Messrs. Schenke ). In the early days of the Lübeck wine trade, all wine that was traded in Lübeck was stored, tasted and valued here. At the same time, the Ratsweinkeller was one of the social focal points of the city. In addition to representative tastings of the council, celebrations of the circle society and merchant corporations as well as the family celebrations of the urban patriciate took place here. Under the nave of the town hall is the Germanist cellar , named after the Germanistenag 1847 in Lübeck, whose final banquet was held here. To the left of the entrance is the admiral's room with the coats of arms and ships of the Lübeck fleet commanders since the Middle Ages. The large oak table in the admiral's room was made from an oak plank from the last Lübeck admiral ship Adler von Lübeck .
The Winmestere held their court in the Lord's chamber from which today bridal chamber is called. The chimney there was donated in 1575 by the local patrician family Stiten . His Low German motto led to the name change: mennig man lude singet, if men bring em de brut; he knew what one broke, whom he wanted to know. Other rooms are now named after the earlier lily and rose wine barrels .
The Ratskeller was leased from 1666. The first tenant Daniel Jacobi had to provide a lease of 5000 Marks Lübisch per year. He was followed by three more tenants until the council of the city took over its direct management of the council cellar again in 1704 and transferred the management to an employed council cellar master. In the course of the Lübeck French era , the entire wine inventory was auctioned off under pressure from the occupation in 1812 and resulted in proceeds of 300,000 marks. Some of the wines auctioned included very old vintages from the years 1660 and 1686. The new lease of the Ratskeller to the last Ratskellermeister, Johann Conrad Deuerlein, resulted in only one annual lease of 55 Marks due to the impoverishment of the city and the population. A fundamental renovation of the Ratskeller could only be carried out in 1875 with the conversion to a restaurant.
When Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg became aware of it, the city planning director Adolf Schwiening invited him to Lübeck in 1889 to paint the admiral's room in the Ratskeller.
The by mercenary under the barrel set monk and the mercenaries with their funny Lübeck's Sange "just El Bottermilk / Tein El Klümp, / And if de Schor besapen sin, / Because danzt we up de Strümp." All the wine-loving droll figures they were reminiscent of Eduard von Grützner's figures and were of a really lovely character. Above all, however, it was the impressive structure of the Germania in front of the town hall gable and the giant family tree of the Luebian admirals that gave the pictures the big draw .
In 1890 the room called rose was painted . For the illustration, Lütgendorff was inspired by Emanuel Geibel's Kneiplied Lob der noble Musika ( Ein lust'ger Musikante ).
The illustration on the left shows Jürgen Wullenwever and Marx Meyer in Geibel's “September Night”. During the renovation in 1935, however, the Ratskeller was whitewashed .
Literary
- Emanuel Geibel immortalized the rose in his poem September Night in the Junius songs.
literature
- Theodor Gaedertz : The town hall of Lübeck. Borchers, Lübeck 1914, pp. 21-24
- Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens, Lutz Wilde : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume I, Part 2: City Hall and public buildings of the city. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, ISBN 9783795000349
- Lübeck Lexicon: Ratsweinkeller , Lübeck 2006
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwiening has just rebuilt the brick -Gothic town hall in the neo-Gothic style.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 1.3 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 7.7" E