Wallstrasse (Lübeck)

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The course of Wallstraße (marked in red)
Wallstrasse

The Wall Street is a street of Lübeck .

location

The approximately 1.39 kilometer long Wallstraße begins at Holstentorplatz opposite the south tower of the Holstentor and runs along the salt reservoirs and the Holstentorhalle in a general southward direction. In order to cross the connection between Trave and Stadtgraben on the Wallbrücke , Wallstraße joins Possehlstraße , from which it separates again just after the bridge. From there, Wallstraße runs in an east-facing wide arc along the city side of the ramparts , crosses the connection between the Trave and the Elbe-Lübeck Canal on the Wipperbrücke and passes the Mühlenteich before it finally joins the Mühlenbrücke diagonally opposite the town hall .

history

The oldest part of the Wallstrasse, between the Holstentor and the Dankwartsbrücke , existed as early as the 17th century, was seen as an extension of the Lastadie on the Wallpeninsula and, since there were also campsites here, it was called the Kleine Lastadie .

With the construction of the bastionary fortifications in the southern area of ​​the city between 1605 and 1644/63, the Kleine Lastadie was given an extension in the form of the connecting path that ran on the inside of the ramparts and led to the mill gate . The name Wallstraße developed from the course along the ramparts , whereby the route was for a long time viewed as a sequence of three individual, even if related streets. When the name was officially set in 1884, this resulted in the following three street names:

  • First Wallstrasse for the section from Holstentor to Dankwartsbrücke
  • Second Wallstrasse for the section from Dankwarts- to Wipperbrücke
  • Third Wallstrasse for the section from the Wipper Bridge to the Mill Bridge

After the expansion of the entire route from a narrow side street to a bypass and relief road at the end of the 1920s, all three streets were merged into one in 1938, which is still known today as Wallstraße .

buildings

literature

  • Roswitha Ahrens / Karl-Ernst Sinner: Why the Kohlmarkt is called "Kohlmarkt" . Archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 2011. ISBN 978-3-7950-5204-1
  • W. Brehmer : The street names in the city of Lübeck and its suburbs. HG Rathgens, Lübeck 1889.
  • 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).

Web links

Commons : Wallstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 4.2 ″  E