Rose gate
The Rosenpforte is a street in Lübeck's old town .
location
The approximately 50 m long rose gate is located in the northeast of the old town island, in the Jakobi quarter . It emerges from the square-like meeting of Wakenitzmauer , Rosenstrasse and Kleiner Gröpelgrube , runs eastward and ends at the confluence with Kanalstrasse .
history
The Rosenpforte is one of the few streets in Lübeck's old town that does not go back directly to the time when the Hanseatic city was founded: it was only laid out in 1904 as a new cross-connection to Kanalstrasse, which was built in 1901. Its name is derived from a much earlier time and refers to a small passage in the medieval city wall named Rosenpforte at this point , which gave the residents of the surrounding streets access to the Wakenitzufer and later also to the Rosenwall bastion , part of the New bastionary fortifications built in 1613 led.
With the demolition of the city wall in 1853, the old rose gate disappeared without leaving any visible remains. The name, however, was remembered and used again when the new short connecting road at this location was named in 1904.
literature
- 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).
- Rainer Andresen: Lübeck. History, churches, fortifications (= the old townscape 1). Unchanged reprint. Verlag Neue Rundschau, Lübeck 1988.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 20.7 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 34.1" E