Wakenitzufer
The Wakenitzufer is a street on the Wakenitz River in the St. Jürgen district of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein).
The Falkenwiese open-air swimming pool is located next to it, a listed river swimming pool from 1899, which had a predecessor from 1799, as well as a number of water sports clubs, some of which were founded at the end of the 19th century. Because of its location on the lake-like dammed river, the Wakenitzufer is a preferred residential street near Lübeck's old town island. The street is lined with linden trees of different ages.
location
The street Wakenitzufer is on the former Falkenwiese. The peninsula on the west side of the Wakenitz River, which has been dammed since the Middle Ages, was used for falconry and falconry in the Middle Ages. The river, which rises from the Ratzeburg lake , supplied the city with drinking water through the water art , because the water of the Trave near the city was inedible due to the inflow of sewage.
The Wakenitzufer leads north from Moltkestrasse, which was laid out in 1892, to An der Falkenwiese street , which swings west. The street ends in the north at the main entrance to the school garden , a botanical garden planned by Erwin Barth in 1909 and laid out by Harry Maasz in 1913 . The grounds of the LBV Phönix are in the immediate vicinity .
East Side
The east side of the Wakenitzufer street has no residential buildings. In the north of the Wakenitzufer is the outdoor pool on the Falkenwiese , which has been a listed building since 1997. The natural swimming pool on the Wakenitz replaced the Kreidemannsche institute built in 1799 and demolished in 1898 . It was one of the oldest open-air swimming pools in northern Germany and was located at the height of today's culvert canal .
Between the street and the bank of the Wakenitz, a green area with old trees is used in spring as a starting point for the International Lübeck Rowing Regatta, which was held for the 79th time in 2007 by the Lübeck Regatta Association for rowers from Schleswig-Holstein, other federal states in Northern Germany and Berlin , Saxony and Denmark. The green area is a meeting place for ice skaters in winter when the Wakenitz is frozen over; in summer the partially shaded lawns serve as a lawn for sunbathing.
Parallel to the street, a hiking trail leads north along the Wakenitz to the end of the lower Wakenitz, where the dammed river is channeled under the Falkendamm towards the Klughafen and Trave. A wooden house built above the Wakenitz in front of the green area, in which a shipping company is based, is used commercially. It operates excursion boats on the Wakenitz from the pier at the Moltkebrücke to Rothenhusen at the northern end of the Ratzeburg lake.
Until the 1980s, there was an irregularly operated passenger ferry connection from a jetty that was preserved next to the wooden house to the opposite bank of the Wakenitz with the Drägerpark and the Marli natural swimming pool in the St. Gertrud district .
To the south, the green area adjoins the traditional Lübeck water sports clubs, which have their club houses there. They are the Lübeck Motor Yacht Club , the Lübeck Sailing Club from 1885 and the Sailing Club Hansa from 1898 , as well as the Lübeck Canoeing and Sailing Club . The club members' sailing boats are housed in sheds during the winter; some of them are stored in the open spaces. Some of the club houses are used gastronomically.
The Wakenitz itself, where the ice ass regatta has been organized with optimists since 1969 , is only partially suitable as a sailing area; At the beginning of the season, larger boats are towed to the Ratzeburg lake, where the masts are set, because of the low Wakenitz bridges .
South of the canoeing and sailing club area, the Wakenitz is drained on the Wakenitzufer between Dorotheenstrasse and Blanckstrasse to the west via the culvert canal and culvert in the direction of the Mühlenteich. A two-lane road bridge leads over the culvert canal. The Kreidemannsche Anstalt swimming pool was located here until 1898. In the direction of Moltkestrasse and Moltkebrücke there is another green area, from which a footpath leads under the Moltkebrücke to the Wakenitzschifffahrt pier.
West side
The west side of the street Wakenitzufer was built since the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. In the direction of the old town island, the Wakenitzufer is opened up for car traffic via Moltkestrasse and Wahmstrasse ; Another way of accessing the city center is the connection via Falkenstrasse, which runs parallel to Wakenitzufer, along the Klughafen to Burgfeld and from there through the castle gate to Große Burgstrasse in the northern part of the city center. To the west, the district of the former peninsula is connected by residential streets from the Wakenitzufer to Falkenstrasse and Hüxtertorallee , several of which, such as Travelmannstrasse, Percevalstrasse and Attendornstrasse, are named after Lübeck mayors . The old town island can be reached on foot via the Klughafenbrücke , which was built in the 1990s and is also known as the Glitter Bridge because of its covering . The Klughafen is also named after a Lübeck mayor, Heinrich Klug .
The oldest buildings on the banks of the Wakenitz are in the northern area opposite the green area at the level of the Falkenwiese outdoor pool. They are multi-storey residential buildings with richly structured facades of different styles in a representative character. Some have elements of Art Nouveau . To the south there was originally one of the Wakenitz fishing nests and an excursion restaurant. Parts of the areas on which the barracks originally stood were not built on until after the Second World War . Unadorned functional buildings were built there, some of which were built in the 1960s.
The only commercial enterprise on the street, a car dealership with a workshop, was given up in the 1990s. The dealership's sales rooms were on the ground floor of an eight-story residential building on Dorotheenstrasse with a front facing Wakenitzufer; the workshop buildings were on the Wakenitzufer between Dorotheenstrasse and Bleichenweg. They were demolished and replaced in 2005 by a luxurious multi-storey residential complex with condominiums. Residential buildings from the 1970s and 1980s follow to the south. Because of the preferred location on the Wakenitz, lawyers' and medical practices were established on the Wakenitzufer.
Lübeck's second public bookcase has been on the corner of Pelzerstraße since October 2013 .
In Lübeck, Wakenitzstrasse in the St. Jürgen district and Wakenitzmauer street in the east of the old town island are named after the Wakenitz river .
Early development in the north of the street, mostly from the early 20th century
Buildings from the 1960s on the former fishing grounds
Replacement residential development from 2005 on the area of a previous car workshop
literature
- Meike Müller: St. Jürgen - Chronicle of a suburb and its village environment (= small booklets on city history. Booklet 14). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1998, ISBN 3-7950-3113-3 .
Web links
- Location of the Wakenitz bank on Lübeck's online city map
- http://www.beirat-fuer-geschichte.de/fileadmin/pdf/band_08/Demokratische_Geschichte_Band_08_Essay07.pdf page 248
Individual evidence
- ↑ 79th Rowing regatta on the Rudersport.com site ( memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A bookcase as a library replacement , hl-live.de, accessed on October 26, 2013
- ^ Literature from the closet on the street corner , ln-online, accessed on October 26, 2013
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 42 ′ 13 ″ E