St. Elisabeth-Kirchengasse

The most important institution in this area in the 14th century was St. George's Hospital. Until the 15th century, the naming of this street was oriented toward this hospital. In 1355, including the later Töpfergasse, it was called "Weg, do man geit zu Sinte Jorian" (the way one goes to St. George).

Still in the 14th century, a Guild of the Wretched was founded in the Old Town for the care of the poor and sick. In 1394, Grand Master Konrad von Jungingen took their hospital under his special protection and furnished it with a chapel consecrated to St. Elisabeth. When the importance of this hospital declined and that of the St. Elisabeth Chapel grew, the street was first mentioned in 1443 as "Sente Elsebethgasse" and in 1456 in a document on the parish division of St. Catherine and St. Elisabeth as "platea sancte Elisabeth." Apparently at this time the Töpfergasse was still counted as part of it. In the property registers of the 16th and 17th centuries the name remained unchanged, and its area of application was already the same as today. At the end of the lane in the 15th century stood the Elisabethtor (Elisabeth Gate), which was later built over.