The Broad Street is the backbone of the pedestrian area in the historic center of Lübeck and one of the four streets of the main north-south connection system of urban planning of the 12th century.It starts at Koberg between Jakobikirche and Schiffergesellschaft and the house of the merchant class. In this first section, the development of the pre-war period is still largely intact, while elsewhere many buildings fell the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 to the victim. At the corner Beckergrube road turns. Although the width of road According to experts, is a pedestrian zone is on the small side, then refer to the following section at St. Mary's and the law firm building over to the town hall on the market the mainstays of each pedestrian, but still with a few local specialists (such as Niederegger) interspersed. Before building firm goes on Marienkirchhof by Thomas Mann world famously Mengstraße right to the nearby Buddenbrookhaus. His brother Heinrich Mann was born in 1871 in Broad Street. At the site of his birthplace, a new building was built after the Second World War, at which there was a plaque for Heinrich Mann. Currently (2009) is built here a new business house, also of Thomas Mann stone sculptor Ulrich Beier (1975) is currently not visible