Reeperbahn
26.06.2008, 12:29 Uhr
Hamburg’s most popular street of St.Pauli is nightclub and red-light district as well. Besides red-light business you will also find many theatres, restaurants, music-clubs and discos.
Location: To the west of downtown
The most famous street of Hamburg got its name from the old german word reep which means an old heavy rope for a ship. During 1600 and 1880 the space north of today’s street Reeperbahn was used as a ropewalk for the production of ropes for the nearby harbour.
In the 18th century the street known as Reeperbahn today got its name.
In the 17th century the night clubs and places of entertainment were established. On the Spielbudenplatz, which still exists there were a lot of wooden boothes where people enjoyed refreshment, jugglers and acrobatics.
There were many theatres (e.g. “St. Pauli-theatre”), beer halls, ballhouses and musicpalaces which attracted the citizens of Hamburg more and more, but also sailors from the ships at Hamburg Harbour came to the Reeperbahn. The place was already very multicultural around 1900.
In the 1960’s the Reeperbahn with its “Große Freiheit” became the mecca of rockmusic. Everybody from the Beatles to the Searchers was performing in clubs like “Top Ten” or the “Starclub”. In the 1970’s and 1980’s brothels and strip clubs were seen almost everywhere at the Reeperbahn.
Today you also see many “normal” restaurants, music-clubs and theatres at the Reeperbahn like e.g. “Schmidt” or the “Operettenhaus”. Due to this change the citizens of Hamburg were also interested into the Reeperbahn again.
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