Travemünder Allee

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Villas in Travemünder Allee
Jahnstein
Emil Possehl's mausoleum in the Burgtorfriedhof
Travemünder Allee / view from Sandberg in north direction
Early flowering wood anemones in Lauerholz in April
Lying hall of the hospital
Forest kindergarten on Travemünder Allee
Memorial helmet off to prayer on the honorary cemetery inaugurated in 1915

The Travemünder Allee (formerly Israel Dorfer Avenue ) is a street in the district of St. Gertrud the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

designation

Originally the street was called Israelsdorfer Allee after it was first named in 1869 , after the estate and village of Israelsdorf , which derives its name from the medieval name Yrsahelestorp ( ahd. Yrsa : to err, to get lost). Israelsdorf was a popular local recreation area in Lübeck. It had nothing to do with the people or the later State of Israel . In the time of National Socialism , Israelsdorf was renamed Walddorf and the Israelsdorfer Allee, as the popular local recreation area migrated to Travemünde with the bridging of the Trave , was renamed to Travemünder Allee in 1936 . While Israelsdorf got its old name back after 1945, Travemünder Allee was the only street in Lübeck to keep its name from the National Socialist era due to the change in local recreation area.

course

Travemünder Allee is outside the old town island and leads from Burgfeld in a north-east direction. It thus represents an extension of the Große Burgstrasse , which leads to the castle gate . From the Sandberg to the transition to the Travemünder Landstrasse at the level of the Lauerholz , it forms a section of the Bundesstrasse 75 leading to the Herrentunnel in the direction of Travemünde.

In Lübeck, the bypass road in Kücknitz divided the old Travemünder Allee, on which it is partially located, into two remaining parts. The part that does not belong to the B75 in the direction of the Trave was renamed Solmitzstrasse . The Lauerholz is on the east side of the main road.

history

The planting of this Linden-Allee goes back to a Senate decree of November 3, 1758, with which the then building yard master Senator Arnold Gottfried Benser (1700–1760) received the approval for the start of the planting on a corresponding template. It was the third planting of this kind after the Salmonwehrallee and the avenue leading to the Retteich in front of the Holsten Gate. As early as 1766, the first regulation of the Senate for the protection of Lübecker Alleen was issued.

In the first part of his novel Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann described Tony Buddenbrook's trip to Travemünde, when she initially backed away before deciding to marry the unloved Bendix Grünlich and fled to Travemünde before he was pushed:

“So she hurriedly and happily packed her suitcase, and then, on one of the last days of June, she and Tom, who was supposed to accompany her, got into the majestic Kröger's equipage, said goodbye in a good mood and drove out of the castle gate with a sigh of relief. After Travemünde it goes straight on, with the ferry across the water and then straight on again; the path was well known to both of them. "

Tony Buddenbrook took the route via the later Travemünder Allee at a time when the city of Lübeck had just started to pave the country roads on their terrain.

The Travemünder Allee has been built since the first half of the 19th century. Here, as in other areas outside the densely populated old town, summer houses were built in which wealthy Lübeckers spent the warm season. The Jahnplatz, Lübeck's first sports field, was laid out as early as 1817. A memorial stone on the property of the public prosecutor's office and land registry commemorates him. The stone made of Saxon granite by an unknown stonemason from 1936 has the inscription "On April 23, 1817, according to Jahn's instructions and teaching, the first gymnastics area in Lübeck was built at this site". The years 1865 and 1883 indicate two gymnastics festivals that were held in Lübeck. In 1870/1871, eight English oaks were planted on the property bordering Jahnstrasse in memory of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .

All streets of the suburb of St. Gertrud, officially established in 1877, were supplied with gas lighting from 1878 onwards. Representative villas were built on Travemünder Allee, primarily on the eastern side facing the city park. It can be reached via the tree-lined Republikplatz (1933 to 2019: Hindenburgplatz ). The street was elaborately designed, with four rows of plants in the area near the castle field. A route of the Lübeck tram ran on Travemünder Allee until 1959 . The road was expanded to four lanes in 1960; An underpass was built at the level of the Sandberg. For the expansion, avenue trees were felled and the front gardens were reduced in size.

In the immediate vicinity of Travemünder Allee is the Lübeck court house, which is only separated from Travemünder Allee by rows of trees and a strip of green, on the short, parallel street Am Burgfeld. At the beginning of the First World War , the war directorate of the IX. Army Corps from Altona on Burgfeld, the largest military hospital of the war. The so-called barracks hospital extended from the said field up Israelsdorfer Allee to Adolfstrasse. For example, the lying hall of the lung healing station of the hospital was located at the level of Villa Eschenburg .

On the northwest side of the avenue is the Burgtorfriedhof , where well-known Lübeckers and their families have their graves, including Emil Possehl , the Mann family , the Eschenburgs or the Overbecks . There are also the graves of Ida Boy-Ed and Günther Lüders and his family. Beyond the Sandberg street is the Ehrenfriedhof , south of the street is the kindergarten on a large natural plot of land donated by Lübeck's honorary citizen Rodolfo Groth .

The Volksfestplatz is located on Travemünder Allee . It was the venue for folk festivals and commemorative festivals, trade fairs and circus guest performances and served as a park + ride space during larger events in the city, such as the Christmas markets. In the meantime, the space is being prepared for residential development. There is also an allotment garden area adjacent to Travemünder Allee.

literature

Web links

Commons : Travemünder Allee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller: St. Gertrud. P. 39.
  2. ↑ Peter Gutkuhn: The history of Jews in Moisling and Lübeck ; 1999, Publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Series B, Volume 30
  3. ^ Müller: St. Gertrud , p. 66; also on the same day, December 3, 1936, the Jerusalemsberg with the late Gothic altar of the Way of the Cross at Burgfeld was renamed Kreuzberg .
  4. ↑ The predecessor was an oak avenue from the castle gate to the place of execution on Adolfstrasse, which was mentioned in 1590.
  5. ↑ Mandate again the damage to the Allèes, in particular the stealing of the poles there, which is becoming rampant, reproduced in Stier: Our Alleen ..., p. 71.
  6. ^ Klaus Bernhard: Plastic in Lübeck - Documentation of Art in Public Space (1436–1985) . Publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Office for Culture, Lübeck 1986, number 26.
  7. ^ Müller: St. Gertrud, pp. 11, 42; first official mentions of the terms "Vorstadt" and "St. Gertrud ”in connection from 1849.
  8. ^ Lübeck: Hindenburgplatz becomes Republikplatz , Lübecker Nachrichten of March 5, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2019

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