Black whale

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The black whale at Angelburger Straße 44

The Gasthaus Schwarzer Walfisch in Flensburg at Angelburger Strasse No. 44 is considered to be the city's oldest inn and is one of its cultural monuments .

Establishment and establishment of the restaurant

The building was apparently built in the 16th century. The roof structure in the basement still dates from this time. At that time, the Hafenspitze was still near Angelburger Strasse, not far from the building. In the course of the following centuries there was heavy silting, so that the tip of the harbor shifted further north and the building gradually lost its proximity to the harbor . In 1751, the building was largely renovated and numbered anchors on the facade refer to the year in question. A two-storey storage building from the 17th and 18th centuries is attached to the building. Century on. Since 1837 the building has served as an inn, which was initially called Thomsen's Gasthof and was later renamed Schwarzer Walfisch . The name of the restaurant is reminiscent of the whaling season , with trips to Greenland from Flensburg in the 18th to 19th centuries. In 1887, another three-story wing was added by the architect Alexander Wilhelm Prale to expand the inn, and the front building was presumably redesigned at the same time. In 1897 a third, two-storey wing was added to this again. At some point during this time, the dining room on the ground floor was furnished with old German furniture . The house changed owners and tenants several times over the years.

Events in the inn

The black whale at the front of the inn

In 1866, merchants and house owners from the St. Johannis church district founded the St. Johannis Club, which still exists today as a non-registered association . The club, whose members originally discussed business life and the economic situation at meetings, is still used today for socializing. On March 7th, 1884, 56 men founded the regulars' table “Right Corner” in the right back room of the inn, which has been meeting weekly since then. Even then, the members of the regulars' table were merchants, lawyers, doctors and civil servants. Among them were Herm. G. Dethleffsen ( Bommerlunder ), Emil Petersen ( Flensburger Brewery ) and August Grün ( Hansen Rum ). To date, membership can only be achieved through personal recommendations and a subsequent vote.

Around May 3, 1945, SS members were drunk and amused themselves with Wehrmacht helpers in the Black Whale. The SS members had come to Flensburg following the Rattenlinie Nord after the last Reich government had been established in the local suburb of Mürwik . In addition, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler is said to have temporarily moved into quarters in the Black Whale during these days. From the oat market , not far from the Black Whale, one road led directly to the special area of ​​Mürwik and another, about a kilometer further, to Angeliter Land . In a cabinet meeting in Mürwik, in which Himmler took part, Dönitz removed him from all his offices. On May 8th, when the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht took place, or on May 11th 1945 at the latest, Himmler left the Flensburg area and fled further south to Lower Saxony , where he was captured by British soldiers and shortly afterwards on May 23rd 1945 died in Lüneburg by suicide .

At the beginning of 1967 the Flensburg monument dispute over the memorial chapel for the fallen of both world wars in St. Mary's Church began . The quarreling pastors of St. Marien and the fusilier veterans involved tried to come to an understanding in the Black Whale, but this failed and the dispute ultimately became public, where it spread. In the 1970s, the offer of guest rooms to stay in the Black Whale was abolished. On September 29, 1979, seven boatmen founded the Museumshafen Flensburg eV in an adjoining room of the inn

Closure and today's situation

The inn has been closed since 2004. The regulars' table "Right Corner" moved their weekly meetings to St. Knudsborg . The self-help building association bought in 2016 from the slaughterhouse Jepsen the building with the underlying terrain that is partly still undeveloped.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 262 f.
  3. ↑ See the city ​​view of Flensburg , which was made between 1572 and 1618.
  4. ↑ a b A special club through the ages. In: Flensburg Journal , November 25, 2016; accessed on October 5, 2018
  5. ^ A b Flensburg Johannis Club: 150 years of socializing. In: Flensburger Tageblatt, December 7, 2016
  6. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article Grönlandweg.
  7. ↑ a b “Walfisch” host Alfred Mäder. In the "Black Whale" there is a festive mood. In: Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, October 20, 2001; accessed on October 5, 2018
  8. ↑ See page of the St. Johannis Club
  9. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article Grüner Weg.
  10. ↑ a b c The (local) "right corner": It is the birthday of the oldest regulars' table. In: Flensburger Tageblatt, March 4, 2009; accessed on October 4, 2018
  11. ^ The downfall in Flensburg in 1945. (PDF) (No longer available online.) State Center for Civic Education Schleswig-Holstein , p. 12 , archived from the original on October 20, 2016 ; accessed on October 4, 2018 (talk on January 10, 2012 by Gerhard Paul ). In this text, Gerhard Paul mentions that the boozy soldiers were supposed to have been SS men, but in the documentation Die Tage nach Hitler he explains this more clearly.
  12. ^ A b Gerhard Paul : The Gestapo in Flensburg. From the State Border Inspectorate to the Gestapo Border Police Inspectorate. In: Flensburg reports:…! Flensburg and the German-Danish border area as reflected in the reporting of the Secret State Police and the Security Service (SD) of the Reichsführer-SS (1933–1945) . Flensburg 1997, p. 59.
  13. ↑ State Center for Civic Education Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Der Untergang 1945 in Flensburg (lecture on January 10, 2012 by Gerhard Paul ), p. 15.
  14. ^ Stephan Richter: civilian clothes, eye patch, new name: But there was no escape for Himmler. In: sh: z , May 13, 2015; accessed on October 5, 2018
  15. ↑ We at Harrislee. SPD local club Harrislee. Info letter - January 2016 , p. 2, accessed on March 19, 2018
  16. ↑ State Center for Civic Education Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Der Untergang 1945 in Flensburg (lecture on January 10, 2012 by Gerhard Paul), p. 18.
  17. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 412.
  18. ↑ affairs / honor of the fallen. Stone consolation. In: Spiegel Online , March 20, 1967; accessed on October 5, 2018
  19. ↑ See Stephan Link, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): Bruchlinien. The Flensburg church dispute over the warrior commemoration of St. Mary in 1967. Flensburg 2017, p. 33 f.
  20. ↑ 150 years of Flensburger Tageblatt - dispute over the warrior in the church. In: Flensburger Tageblatt, September 20, 2015; accessed on October 5, 2018
  21. ↑ It crackled in the "Black Whale". In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung , June 2, 2012; accessed on October 5, 2018
  22. ↑ Flensburger Jepsen-Karree: Living behind the whale. In: Flensburger Tageblatt, December 16, 2016; accessed on October 4, 2018

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Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 24 ″  E