Caffamacher series

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Caffamachar row, corner of Speckplatz, house where Johannes Brahms was born, 1891

The Caffamacherreihe is a street in Hamburg's Neustadt between ABC-Strasse and Dammtorwall . It was named after the Caffamachers , a job title that has been used since the 17th century, especially in northern Germany, for weavers who made a flowered velvet , the Caffa or Kaffa . It was part of a branched area on what was then the northern edge of the city, which was included in the city area at the beginning of the 17th century when the ramparts were built. From 1612 to 1630 this area between Fuhlentwiete and Valentinskamp, ​​then up to Dammtorwall, was built closely with half-timbered houses; a tangle of narrow corridors, paths and backyards emerged that became known as the Gängeviertel . In 1618 the path was named Kaffamacher-Reege after the large number of local craftsmen . The velvet and silk cloth weavers who lived here are also mentioned in 1787.

In the second half of the 20th century, most of this last Hamburg Gängeviertel was torn down, the street was widened and the area was built over with office and commercial buildings, the most striking of which is today's Emporio high-rise (formerly Unileverhaus, built in 1958) on the Corner of Valentinskamp, ​​but also the Axel-Springer-Passage (1997) in the southern part and the complex of the judicial authority towards Dammtorwall (1980/1982). The late-Wilhelminian-era multi-storey buildings, Caffamacherreihe 37–39 and 43–49, and the corridors behind them from the 18th century between Valentinskamp and Speckstrasse have been preserved. The already planned demolition was prevented in 2009 by the squatting of the artist initiative Get Started.

The house where the composer Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was born, which was destroyed in 1943 during the bombing of the Second World War , stood on the Caffamacherreihe, at the corner of Speckplatz, today Speckstrasse .

Web links

Commons : Caffamacherreihe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell a story. Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 , p. 235.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Melhop: Historical Topography of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1895-1920 , Volume 1, 1923, p. 101
  3. Rita Bake: Various Worlds II, 109 historical and current stations in Hamburg's Neustadt , published by the State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-929728-52-1 , pp. 125, 153–155, 170– 175, also as a pdf