Dammtorstrasse

Former office building of the Hamburg high school authority

The Dammtorstraße is a street in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , which the district center belongs. It is located in the Neustadt district . Dammtorstraße runs between Gänsemarkt and Stephansplatz .

Its name is derived from the Dammtor , a city ​​gate that stood near the Hamburg-Dammtor train station until the 19th century . Dammtorstrasse led to this. It was created in the 18th century.

House Golden Swan

Cultural monuments

There are numerous cultural monuments in Dammtorstrasse . The former service building of the Hamburg High School Authority, designed by Fritz Schumacher , and the Goldener Schwan house as well as the Hamburg State Opera are among these. The Metropolis Kino is located in the neighboring Metropolis-Haus, the projection room of which has a listed interior from the 1950s.

Hamburg State Opera

Stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks on Dammtorstrasse are reminiscent of people who worked or lived in the street. They included the conductor , composer and music critic Gustav Brecher , the lyrical tenor Joseph Schmidt , the concert and opera singer Magda Spiegel , the conductor, composer and pianist Viktor Ullmann and the politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism Hans Westermann .

See also

• Hamburg ramparts
• List of cultural monuments in Hamburg-Neustadt (North)
• List of stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Neustadt

literature

• Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names. Where they come from and what they mean , Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8225-0421-1 .
• Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history . Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 .
• Hermann Hipp : Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg Monument List on the Open Data Portal Hamburg, and Monument List of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, status October 21, 2013 (XML; 13.9 MB). Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, cultural authority, monument protection office, 2013. ID 14855 (1675)