Wendenstrasse (Rostock)
The Rostock Wendenstraße is a short street in the far northeast of the historic center of the Hanseatic city. Coming from the northwest corner of the Alter Markt in the south, it joins the street Am Strande shortly after the intersection with Gärtnerstraße coming from the west and the street Beim Wendentor coming from the east . Wendenstrasse is part of Rostock's historic old town .
In 1317 the Wendenstrasse was first mentioned as a platea slavorum . Their name is an indication of a stronger concentration of Wendish, i.e. Slavic, population in the north-eastern city periphery. After Rostock was founded as a German merchant town by colonists from Westphalia and Lower Saxony (confirmation of the town charter for the old town was 1218), Slavs from the region also lived within the town walls, but were located below in the social fabric of the town. Accordingly, Wendenstrasse was quite modestly built with stalls . At its northern end, which was Wendentor , the easternmost of the once 13 port gates . The buildings on the street that were destroyed in the Second World War were rebuilt with suitable houses. Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 49.9 ″ E