Stralsund street names
This is a directory of street names in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund .
The directory gives the name of the street and (in brackets) the district. An explanation (year of naming, reason) for the street name is given. Because of the large number of streets, the directory was divided according to the first letters of the street names.
Example: A manda-Weber-ring can be found at A .
General
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There were always changes in street names, often when certain people no longer fit into the traditional image or the self-image of politics in the face of social upheaval. Other changes were made simply for reasons of sound shifts or because of incorrect writing. Originally, the streets were named after trades , which is why street names have been constantly renamed over time with the changes in the trades. In the Middle Ages, the streets were often named after the families who lived at the beginning of a street at No. 1. The street names usually did not refer to continuous streets over several blocks, but rather a section from street corner to street corner. This was changed in the interest of a simpler postal system in 1869, so that almost 70 street names were dropped.
Names of persons and cities
Many streets are named after people. However, there are differences to be considered. In the early days of Stralsund, streets were named after people, but not in honor of these people, but simply because the house of this person either stood at the beginning of a street or also emerged in this street. This type of name can be found e.g. B. in Badenstrasse , Frankenstrasse , Knieperstrasse or also Ossenreyerstrasse and Semlowerstrasse . The street names developed from language usage and not based on order. So the namesake had possessions in the streets.
The situation is different with the streets, which were named after people from around the middle of the 19th century. Here we clearly find the motive for honoring this person on the basis of a certain achievement. Up until the Second World War, this service was mostly of regional significance for street names. For example, important mayors were honored in the “mayor's quarter” established in the 1930s . There is Franz-Wessel-Straße , Lambert-Steinwich-Straße , Otto-Voge-Straße and Gentzkowstraße . These street names were created administratively and do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the possessions of the people. Only a few streets were named after nationally significant people before the Second World War. Above all, the political leaders of the country, such as Hindenburg (with the Hindenburgufer ) or Hitler , were honored with the naming of a street, often during their lifetime. The trend towards a political weighting of people can already be seen here.
Especially in the period after the Second World War, people who were not directly connected to Stralsund were increasingly honored. The political views of these people played an important role. In addition to the renaming or renaming of streets that bore the names of people who had become unpopular (of course, Hitler was deleted from the street name image, but Hindenburg also had to give way), a new personality cult , this time under Stalinist or communist aspects, was the focus. So was Stalin with the naming of the franc dam or even Wilhelm Pieck in the Wilhelm Pieck road honored. Even after the renunciation of Stalinism, people were honored who were close to the ideas of socialism or to whom this was assumed by the state leadership. However, one got away from honoring politicians . A Western politician is an exception: after the death of Olof Palme , who had visited Stralsund with Erich Honecker in 1984, part of Sarnowstrasse , which also houses the city theater , was renamed Olof-Palme-Platz .
Most of the time, however, writers , composers and other artists from all epochs were honored with a street name. In the new districts, streets were initially named after nearby places, but also after important German musicians, later in the newer residential areas, which were built using prefabricated panels and offered thousands of Stralsund residents a new, modern home, mostly after artists from the GDR or the USSR . In the late 1980s, many streets were named after places in other socialist countries.
After the economic and political turnaround in 1989/1990, street names were renamed many times. These renaming were mostly politically motivated. The memory of artists who “served” the GDR was erased from the cityscape. For example, the street dedicated to Johannes R. Becher , the poet of the GDR national anthem, became Rudolf-Virchow-Strasse . In contrast to many other East German cities, however, the honors for the two "fathers" of communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with Karl-Marx-Strasse and Friedrich-Engels-Strasse, have been preserved. The Lenin Square got back its historical name Neuer Markt .
Many streets have now been named after places with which Stralsund had economic relations during the Hanseatic League , e.g. B. Lübecker Allee . With the Kieler Ring , the city also honored its West German twin city, Kiel .
Job titles
As early as the Middle Ages , in addition to naming streets after the people living in this street, it was customary to name streets after the trades that were located there. The administration did not play a role here, the vernacular took over the naming. The location of the streets still suggests the importance of these professions. The most important and politically influential guilds were located in the largest and most important streets; in the smaller ones, mostly on the outskirts of the city, the less important ones. The strong economic position of such important guilds as that of the dressmaker was expressed in the construction of large, impressive houses, which resulted in the street being named after the residents of these houses. In the smaller streets, which were populated by less important guilds like the cooperatives , there were hardly any such impressive houses; they were named after the profession that was predominantly represented here, as evidenced by Böttcherstrasse .
literature
- Otto Francke : The Stralsund street names. Compiled from city books and land registers. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter , 1879, XXXI – LI
- Hans Koeppen: The street names in Stralsund , Greifswald 1938
- Günter Köpnick: Stralsund's streets. In: Our shipyard No. 28/71, Stralsund 1971
- Peter Uerkwitz: Stralsunder Street Lexicon , Rostock 1986
- Andreas Neumerkel, Jörg Matuschat: From the butt notch to Zipollenhagen. Stralsund streets and their history. 3. Edition. Kruse printing and publishing house, Stralsund 2007, ISBN 978-3-941444-01-0 .
