Hafenstrasse

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Houses on Hafenstrasse, October 2008
Harbor street houses on the Baldwin staircase, April 1989
Balduintreppe, corner of Bernhard-Nocht-Straße with the pub Onkel Otto , July 2006
Demonstration for the preservation of Hafenstrasse on December 20, 1986, here after its start in St. Georg

By Keyword Hafenstraße be approximately eleven former particularly in the media and politics occupied , threatened with demolition and in a cooperative multi-storey residential buildings transferred primarily from the early days in the St. Pauli harbor road and in the Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse in St. Pauli , Hamburg , Germany .

history

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The houses, which were built around 1900, are located at the Hamburg harbor between the Reeperbahn and Landungsbrücken . The affected houses owned by SAGA , a housing association of the city of Hamburg, were partly empty; Apartments were also rented to the Jusos , who ran a “socio-educational research community” there.

House fighting of the 1980s

Some of the houses were to be demolished based on a building survey that found the buildings uninhabitable. At the end of 1981 the houses were "slowly occupied" during a New Year's Eve party.

In the spring of 1982 SAGA had the houses cleared; two days later these were "repaired" by occupiers. There were further arguments when SAGA had the ground floor of one of the houses walled up and strangers walled up the entrance to the SAGA administration in Altona. The residents demanded negotiations for a usage contract; an agreement was reached on “winterization” and repairs to the electrical system in the houses.

Funds were approved in 1983; nevertheless there were first riots and then searches of some houses and arrests. The city of Hamburg announced an architectural competition to redesign the edge of the harbor; in the Senate calls for "clear legal relationships" were loud. The occupiers demanded a general lease agreement for all houses as well as for the open spaces in front of and between the houses. In November 1983, three-year rental contracts were signed. The residents began to repair the houses in order to invalidate the "uninhabitable" status found in the building report. The first "New Year's Eve" days took place between Christmas and New Year's Eve, a mixture of political meetings, events and concerts.

In January 1985, burning barricades were erected on the Hafenrandstrasse by RAF prisoners in support of the hunger strike. Some representatives of the district office of Hamburg-Mitte, the interior and building authorities began to work on a plan to clear the houses. In March, the houses were enforced under police protection. The HEW cut several electricity connections due to unpaid bills, the police are carrying out searches on suspected participation of people in criminal acts.

In autumn, the media raised the suspicion that people from the environment of the Red Army Faction would live in Hafenstrasse. The head of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Christian Lochte , gave the taz a detailed interview; after that, Autonome devastated the editorial offices of taz Hamburg.

In 1986 further attempts were made to counteract the impending eviction and demolition; the residents re-covered roofs and decided to open discussions with social groups. Another house was occupied and vacated soon after. In a large-scale police operation, several apartments were searched and cleared. There was a demonstration and sometimes militant actions in the urban area of ​​Hamburg and in various cities in Europe. Large-scale police operations took place almost regularly; they temporarily included demonstrations. On December 20, 12,000 demonstrators moved from downtown Hamburg to Hafenstrasse. Protesters injured 100 police officers.

In the spring of 1987 there were several coordinated, sometimes militant, actions at various locations in Hamburg. In the summer, the vacated apartments were officially reoccupied. The fortification of the houses against the upcoming evacuation as well as broad public relations in favor of a contractual solution determined from then on the everyday life in the houses. During a demonstration in support of the occupation, the pirate station “Radio Hafenstrasse” went on air. When, in November 1987, the ongoing negotiations for a new contract between residents and the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg were both considered to have failed, residents and supporters erected barricades around the houses. The occupiers built steel doors into the houses, welded and barricaded the windows on the ground floor, blocked the stairwells and secured the roofs with NATO wire . 5000 police officers were ready to storm the area. A compromise was finally reached under the leadership of the First Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi : A new contract was signed, the barricades were dismantled and after a 24-hour ultimatum a peaceful solution was reached, for which von Dohnanyi later received the Theodor Heuss Medal was honored.

In 1990 all houses were searched by the police and the federal prosecutor's office . In 1993, the termination of the lease contract due to misconduct by the residents was recognized as legal by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. In 1994, the then mayor Henning Voscherau (SPD) offered to refrain from eviction and demolition if they would accept the development of the adjacent open space.

Establishment of a cooperative

In 1995 the city sold 11 houses to the cooperative "Alternatives on the banks of the Elbe" founded especially for this purpose, and the houses were renovated. Of the total costs, more than 9 million euros, the authority contributed 3.85 million; the cooperative raised 1.3 million.

Further developments

In 2012 Hafenstrasse consisted of 12 houses owned by a cooperative . In October 2007, a new residential building for around 40 residents (planB residential project) was added at Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 26. In the past, provocations led to riots and police operations. Since the prosecution of criminal offenses was usually only possible with massive police action, the term “legal free area” was coined by critics. City, authorities and police designed simulation games to bring about an evacuation. The interest of the residents, on the other hand, was to prevent the houses from being demolished, to obtain cheap living space and to lead “a self-determined life without alienation ” there. According to the building authorities, around 120 people of all ages live there. From the mid-1990s, the district also became a popular tourist destination. Today the quarter is considered “hip and chic” in travel guides.

Since 2016 there have been conflicts between residents and the police because the police are increasingly checking people of real or alleged black African origin in the area of ​​Hafenstrasse. The background to this is the open, rapidly increasing drug trade by black African refugees, particularly on the Baldwin stairs. In the course of the conflict, the car of the head of the so-called "task force" was set on fire by strangers.

Hafenstraße 2013 - new buildings next to old buildings. A widely visible protest: " no one is illegal "

Movies

  • Terrible Houses in Danger , winter 1984/85, approx. 45 min
  • Between roof tiles and paving stones , 1985, approx. 45 min, film about the squatting on Hafenstrasse, Chemnitzstrasse, Jägerpassage and Pinnasberg
  • Close your eyes to see better , 1986, approx. 20 min
  • Somehow, somewhere, sometime , 1987/88, approx. 100 min, re-cast and barricade days
  • Police attack on Hafenstraße , 1989, approx. 20 min, evacuation of the large site for construction vehicles
  • Even the smallest light breaks through the darkness , 1990, approx. 60 min, film about the search of the houses by the BKA and the federal prosecutor's office and the subsequent occupation of the Stern canteen (available from: Medienpädagogik Zentrum Hamburg e.V., Susannenstrasse 14 c, d, 20357 Hamburg)
  • The harbor stairs , directed by Thomas Tode & Rasmus Gerlach. D 1991, 75 min
  • Empire St. Pauli - of pearl necklaces and references. A documentary by Irene Bude and Olaf Sobczak, production by Steffen Jörg, GWA St. Pauli (mini-DV, 2009, 85 min).

volume

literature

  • Hermann, Michael u. a .: Hafenstrasse - Chronicle and Analysis of a Conflict , Verlag am Galgenberg 1987, ISBN 3-925387-34-X
  • Sigmund, Monika: Too colorful ... murals in Hafenstrasse , St. Pauli-Archiv eV 1996, ISBN 300000713X
  • Mallet, Carl-Heinz: The people from Hafenstrasse: About a different way of life , Edition Nautilus 2000, ISBN 389401346X
  • Scheer, André: This is where Radio Hafenstrasse speaks: Broadcast texts from a free radio in Hamburg , series Politische Untergrundsender, 5, 1987, ISBN 3860712055
  • Short-wave press service [Ed.]: Radio Hafenstrasse , Heisse Phase in Hamburg (November 1987), Radio von unten Tonstudio, ISBN 3860711296 , 1987
  • Lehne, Werner: The conflict around the Hafenstrasse: crime discourses in the context of symbolic politics , Hamburg studies on criminology, 18, Centaurus-Verl.-Ges. 1994, ISBN 3890858937

Others

The Park Fiction Project and the Golden Pudel Club are located near Hafenstrasse, on Pinnasberg .

See also

Web links

Commons : Hafenstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Creeping occupation ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  2. ^ A b c d Axel P. Schröder: Deutschlandradio Kultur - Country Report - 30 Years Hamburger Hafenstrasse. In: dradio.de. January 2, 2012, archived from the original ; Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
  3. ^ Creeping occupation ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  4. ^ The struggle for the occupied houses ndr.de of November 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Das Hamburger Wunder wdr.de from November 19, 2012
  6. ^ "Chaos Sightseeing" and street battles ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  7. ↑ Hafenstrasse: This is a former squatter speaking! mopo.de from November 7, 2012
  8. ↑ Eight days in November taz.de from November 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Hafenstrasse: "We did not want any dead police officers" mopo.de of November 8, 2012
  10. ↑ Hafenstrasse: This is a former squatter speaking! mopo.de from November 7, 2012
  11. ^ Symbol for the house fight stern.de of June 9, 2004
  12. ^ "Chaos Sightseeing" and street battles ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  13. ↑ Das Hamburger Wunder wdr.de from November 19, 2012
  14. ↑ Hafenstrasse: It was like a long-term drug ndr.de from October 20, 2013
  15. ^ "Chaos Sightseeing" and street battles ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  16. ^ Symbol for the house fight stern.de of June 9, 2004
  17. ^ "Chaos Sightseeing" and street battles ndr.de from November 12, 2012
  18. ↑ Symbol für den Häuserkampf , stern.de, June 9, 2004, accessed on July 19, 2017
  19. ↑ Doris Brandt: When the left conquered a plot of land , Zeit online from October 21, 2014, accessed on July 19, 2017
  20. ^ Daniel Herder and Christoph Heinemann: Conflict between left and police escalates. In: www.abendblatt.de. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Empire St. Pauli - of pearl necklaces and place references
  22. ↑ St. Pauli documentation from the red light district to the creamy location

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 34"  E