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The Great Burstah is a street in the old town of Hamburg. It connects the Rödingsmarkt and Rathausmarkt traffic junctions with its continuation, Große Johannisstraße, in a curved line . Before the construction of Ost-West-Straße (today: Willy-Brandt-Straße ) after the Second World War, it was the main connection from east to west.

Building history

The Great Burstah was one of the 13th century after the construction of the "old" Neustadt (now part of the Hamburg-Altstadt district ) at the Nikolaikirche by Wirad von Boizenburg around 1188 at the instigation of Count Adolf III von Schauenburg (1164-1203) Main streets of Hamburg. It formed the northern border of this city district and followed the Alster, which had been dammed up since 1124. A mill was operated when this reservoir drained into Nikolaifleet. This part of the street was still called “Mühlenbrücke” in 1839.

To the north of him was the city fortifications on the banks of the Alster. Only when another higher barrage was built at Reesendamm / Jungfernstieg in 1235 and the Hamburg city fortifications on the Alsterfleet (Alter Wall) were strengthened from 1240, the north side of the street was also settled. The Great Burstah led from the “old” old town to the then new Ellerntor (around today's Rödingsmarkt).

After the Great Fire in May 1842, according to the final construction plan, the Great Burstah was 50 Hamburg feet wide (around 16 meters) as the main street.

Traffic significance

Big burstah around 1903
City map section 1908
Big Burstah 2008
Demolition of houses 18 - 34 in 2013

From 1878 the Hamburg-Altona horse tram took its route over the Great Burstah. In the course of time, other horse-drawn tram lines were added. From 1895 the line was electrified. Around 1900, up to 72 trams in Hamburg drove through the Great Burstah every hour. Even after the Second World War, up to four lines ran through this street. Several bus routes still serve him now. The Rödingsmarkt elevated railway station has been adjacent to the western end of the Great Burstah since 1912.

Until 1910, the main traffic in the east either continued on the Herrmannstrasse and Ferdinandstrasse streets or on Rathausstrasse, Speersort and Steinstrasse to the former Steintor (at the main station). From 1910, the then newly created Mönckebergstrasse took up the main traffic to the east via the main station. From 1618, traffic to the west followed the old and new stone path through Hamburg's Neustadt district to Millerntor and from there to Altona or Eimsbüttel . From 1892, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, which was broken through at that time, was another traffic route to the northwest that connected to the Great Burstah. The Great Burstah retained its character as a bottleneck through the western old town. In order to equalize tram traffic, for example, the cars drove westwards via Mönkedamm from 1912 onwards.

Importance as a shopping street

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the Great Burstah was one of the best shopping addresses in Hamburg. Hermann Tietz founded his department store in houses 12 and 14 on March 1, 1897, before the " Alsterhaus " (also H. Tietz) became the top address on April 24, 1912 . After the Second World War, the businessmen of this street tried to build on the former importance. But at that time this street was in the shadow of Jungfernstieg and Mönckebergstrasse , also because the formerly small-scale development (see photo from 2008) had given way to a few remains of larger office buildings. It was not until around 1985 that the Great Burstah was upgraded again.

Houses 18 to 34 will be demolished in early 2013

Houses 18 to 34 on the north side of the street, which were only built after the Second World War, were demolished by February 2013 (see photo 2008). From the beginning of 2015, new commercial buildings were built for them for 100 million euros, which contain 24 luxury apartments in loft style, which, under the marketing name Burstah Lofts , are to enable upscale living in Hamburg's old town again. The first lofts were completed in the first year of the construction phase.

Surroundings

No side streets branch off on the north side of the street, as the Great Burstah runs parallel to the bend in the Mönkedammfleet . These houses have their rear facing the canal, they are visible from the elevated railway. One of the back roads of the Big Burstah going south is the Little Burstah. At the eastern end, the street crosses Nikolaifleet. On the north side, however, the Hamburger Sparkasse building is built over the canal.

Hamburg's main church, St. Nikolai, is located about 100 meters south of the Great Burstah on Hopfenmarkt. It was not rebuilt after its destruction in July 1943, but has served as a memorial ever since.

Name meaning

Linguists explain the name of the street from “bur” and “stah” as “Bürgergestade”. According to a popular local Hamburg legend, however, the name is said to come from a dispute between farmers and brewery workers. Either to stop the farmers or to persecute the farmers, the brewery servants shouted: “Bur stah!” (Low German = “Farmer, stand still!”). Brewer's servants were important in medieval Hamburg, as Hamburg was known as the city of beer brewers at this time (see Hopfenmarkt as the market square of the parish of St. Nikolai).

Remarks

  1. ^ Draft for the construction of the burned down part of the city of Hamburg by William Lindley from May 27, 1842 - 1: 4000 - Hamburg State Archives, reprinted from the Hamburg surveying office 1995
  2. Urban Living - Burstahlofts - FRANKONIA Eurobau. In: burstahlofts.de. February 1, 2010, accessed May 10, 2016 .
  3. Ulrich Gas Village: New Life in the old quarter. In: Abendblatt.de . Retrieved May 10, 2016 .

Bibliography

  • Hamburg, historical-topographical messages, Hamburg, Otto Meissner Verlag, 1868 (reprint 1979), ISBN 3-920610-35-0
  • Fritz Westphal, Die Alster, Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, 1973, ISBN 3-14-111296-7

Web links

Commons : Large Burstah  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 22.5 ″  E