Skybird
10-22-21, 07:50 AM
This video is NOT by me. :)
Hope my choosen word "aisle" is correct, iI am not certain. Found it difficult to find a matching translation.
It illustrates one of my prime reasons why I love this old town of Lübeck so very much: the socalled "Ganghäuser" (aisle houses).
These are very tiny houses build on ground not bigger than one small room, so you do not have several rooms on the same floor - only several rooms stacked onto each other, usally two to three, sometimes four.
They were meant as affordable flats for simple sailors, household servants, and people who could not pay big houses and flats in the past. in other words: for the poorer ones.
When we lived in Lübeck for 5 years in the 70s, most of these were ruins. After reunification, plenty of money was pumped into restoring them. Today, many of these houses are home to permanent residents as well as being rent to tourists. My parents and me spend two christmas seasons if two of such houses for 10 days, in winter 1997 and 1998 I think. It was cozy, and very "gemütlich". The places and courtyards are idyllic gems.
The whole old town of Lübeck is a top tip of mine for any visitors from abroad. Instead of chasing in zig-zags across all of Germany in hectic "cover as much as you can", rent one of these for a week, and stay in place, and learn that place better, its not just Lübeck's old town, but the whole Baltic Sea region around Lübeck, from Travemünde and the Brodtner Ufer and the Lübecker Bucht with its rough beaches in the North and North-East, to Wismar in the east. Its a beautiful region, and the Hanseatic culture is very special, always, anyway. It would be my most favourite place to live beside Bavaria' natural regions.
These houses can be leased cheaper if outside holiday seasons. The city has become a tourism hotspot unfortunately and gets overhelmed by armies of tourists in summer, so i would always recommend to travel there outside any holiday seasons.
The political administrations are haunted by ongoing corruption and incompetence, since decades. The social and financial situation is said to be dire. Unemployemnt and crime rate is high. Migrants quota is high as well.
I will try to find a nice film showing the typical streets of the old town as well, if I find it, I post it. For the time being, enjoy this film, and the photographies in the Wikipedia entry I also link.
Lübeck is part of the UNESCO world heritage. And deservedly so. Of course, it has its more modern and ugly faces, too, outside the centre island with the historic old town. Focus on the whole region, or on the old town, if your time to stay is limited to just a few days. And make sure you stray off the main attractions and explore the hidden, small streets where it is calmer and less crowded, much of the beauty of the town is in there, not on the main places. The poorer quarters are in the south-west, the better looking modern regions more to the East and North. At least it was that way back in our days we lived there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv58_Itcv4c
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbecker_G%C3%A4nge_und_H%C3%B6fe
Hope my choosen word "aisle" is correct, iI am not certain. Found it difficult to find a matching translation.
It illustrates one of my prime reasons why I love this old town of Lübeck so very much: the socalled "Ganghäuser" (aisle houses).
These are very tiny houses build on ground not bigger than one small room, so you do not have several rooms on the same floor - only several rooms stacked onto each other, usally two to three, sometimes four.
They were meant as affordable flats for simple sailors, household servants, and people who could not pay big houses and flats in the past. in other words: for the poorer ones.
When we lived in Lübeck for 5 years in the 70s, most of these were ruins. After reunification, plenty of money was pumped into restoring them. Today, many of these houses are home to permanent residents as well as being rent to tourists. My parents and me spend two christmas seasons if two of such houses for 10 days, in winter 1997 and 1998 I think. It was cozy, and very "gemütlich". The places and courtyards are idyllic gems.
The whole old town of Lübeck is a top tip of mine for any visitors from abroad. Instead of chasing in zig-zags across all of Germany in hectic "cover as much as you can", rent one of these for a week, and stay in place, and learn that place better, its not just Lübeck's old town, but the whole Baltic Sea region around Lübeck, from Travemünde and the Brodtner Ufer and the Lübecker Bucht with its rough beaches in the North and North-East, to Wismar in the east. Its a beautiful region, and the Hanseatic culture is very special, always, anyway. It would be my most favourite place to live beside Bavaria' natural regions.
These houses can be leased cheaper if outside holiday seasons. The city has become a tourism hotspot unfortunately and gets overhelmed by armies of tourists in summer, so i would always recommend to travel there outside any holiday seasons.
The political administrations are haunted by ongoing corruption and incompetence, since decades. The social and financial situation is said to be dire. Unemployemnt and crime rate is high. Migrants quota is high as well.
I will try to find a nice film showing the typical streets of the old town as well, if I find it, I post it. For the time being, enjoy this film, and the photographies in the Wikipedia entry I also link.
Lübeck is part of the UNESCO world heritage. And deservedly so. Of course, it has its more modern and ugly faces, too, outside the centre island with the historic old town. Focus on the whole region, or on the old town, if your time to stay is limited to just a few days. And make sure you stray off the main attractions and explore the hidden, small streets where it is calmer and less crowded, much of the beauty of the town is in there, not on the main places. The poorer quarters are in the south-west, the better looking modern regions more to the East and North. At least it was that way back in our days we lived there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv58_Itcv4c
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbecker_G%C3%A4nge_und_H%C3%B6fe