Brüderstrasse (Hamburg)

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Brothers Street

The Brüderstraße is a street laid out in 1876 in the Hamburg district of Neustadt .

history

The Brüderstraße, like the neighboring Wexstraße, was laid out as a private road by the brothers Friedrich Hermann and Ernst Wex. It gives an impression of Hamburg's appearance at the turn of the 20th century. In 1866, the Wex brothers bought numerous pieces of land east of the Großneumarkt and, after the Brüderstrasse and Wexstrasse had been laid out, built on prestigious apartment buildings. This measure can be seen as the first renovation measure in the Gängeviertel . Around a hundred years later, the area was designated as a redevelopment area under the Urban Development Act. The changes made in the 1970s and 1980s were soon viewed critically. According to a travel guide from the year, however, there were only small, low-light apartments behind the Wilhelminian style facades.

Brüderstrasse 8 (2012)

The buildings in Brüderstraße 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29 are now listed as historical monuments .

After the Hamburg Senate began to close brothels in 1921 , business people in the Brüderstraße and neighboring streets complained about the detrimental effects on business of the previously brotheled women in this area: The customers of the local normal shops now avoided the area and the wives of the Business people felt harassed. The problems that arose from the closure of the brothels could not be solved for years and Hamburg was finally even referred to as the “ Cloaca maxima of Northern Germany”.

Towards the end of the 1960s, the so-called Filmmacherei existed at Brüderstraße 17, emerging from Werner Grassmann's “Studio Galerie”. A film-in, which was held here in 1967, is regarded as "the beginning of the Other theaters" and the cinemas .

House number 8 came into the focus of the press in 1970 after Axel Springer bought the building and increased rental and water costs for the residents extremely. At a meeting of those affected in the Elfriede Matthiesen bar on the corner of Wexstrasse and Brüderstrasse, two people spontaneously joined the DKP . Even a reporter from the Bild newspaper , who wrote a special report about the event for Springer, suggested a review. The rent and ancillary cost increases were partially withdrawn after various protests and explained with the mistake of an employee.

Shooting in the Brüderstraße

Trivia / media

  • Brüderstraße and the surrounding area are often used for filming. For example, the " Knut " commercial for the Ikea furniture company was shot on Brüderstraße in 2010 .
  • The author Uwe Timm settles a large part of his novella The Discovery of Currywurst in the Brüderstraße. The protagonist Lena Brücker lives here in an attic apartment, where she accidentally mixes ketchup and spices in the stairwell and subsequently develops the currywurst.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Hermann Wex lived from 1833 to 1887. His brother Ernst Wex was an architect. He lived from 1836 to 1893. See Volker Plagemann, Die Kunst in Hamburg from Enlightenment to Modernism , Dölling & Galitz 2002, ISBN 978-3-935549-38-7 , p. 142
  2. ^ Gudrun Altrogge, ADAC travel guide plus Hamburg. With extra removable card , ADAC-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-89905-244-2 , p. 61
  3. ↑ Ralf Lange , Architekturführer Hamburg , Edition Axel Menges 1996, ISBN 978-3-930698-58-5 , p. 59 f.
  4. ^ Eva Gerberding and Annette Maria Rupprecht, DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch Hamburg travel guide: With an extra travel map and 10 discovery tours , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7701-7226-9 , p. 118. Instead of Friedrich Hermann Wex, an Adolph Wex is used called.
  5. ↑ List of monuments (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  6. ↑ Michaela Freund-Widder, Women under Control. Prostitution and its state fight in Hamburg from the end of the German Empire to the beginnings of the Federal Republic , Lit Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-5173-6 , p. 34 ff., Quoted from p. 41
  7. ↑ Film Studies in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de
  8. ↑ Hamburg cinemas: Abaton and Metropolis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.slm.uni-hamburg.de  
  9. ↑ Filmportal.de
  10. ^ Spiegel report on Springer's rent increase
  11. ↑ Ikea's commercial on Brüderstraße (YouTube video)
  12. ↑ Uwe Timm: The discovery of the currywurst. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-462-02461-2 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 53 ″  E