Hamburger Hof

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The Hamburger Hof
The Hamburger Hof with richly designed gables and roof around 1900 with the Alster pavilion on the right
Founding share of the Hotel-AG "Hamburger Hof" from 1881

Hamburger Hof is the name of a building on Jungfernstieg in Hamburg and a shopping arcade within it .

The building is on the corner of Jungfernstieg and Große Bleichen . The passage runs through the building complex and has another exit on Poststrasse opposite the Hanseviertel .

history

Originally there the first shopping passage in Germany, the exclusive and luxurious " Sillem's Bazar " with 34 stores and the "Hotel de Russie".

After its demolition, the current building made of red Main sandstone was built here in 1881–1883 ​​with the hotel “Hamburger Hof” , built according to a design by the architects Bernhard Hanssen and Emil Meerwein and equipped with sculptures by Engelbert Peiffer (1830–1896). The hotel was considered one of the best hotels in town and was also used for numerous events and balls. Prominent guests in the hotel's history include: a .: The Chinese viceroy Li Hongzhang in 1896 , King Chulalongkorn of Thailand in the following year , Prince Heinrich of Prussia in 1900 , King Edward VII of England in 1904 , and King Frederick VIII of Denmark in 1912 - the latter died here as a result of a stroke the promenade in front of the hotel.

In 1917 the building was damaged by fire and converted into an office building. In 1944, the originally lavishly designed and richly decorated roof with the gables and spiers was destroyed in bomb attacks and replaced by a simply designed roof. Between 1976 and 1979 the “Hamburger Hof” was converted into a modern office building by the architect Hans Joachim Fritz and provided with a shopping arcade. The roof was redesigned for office use and covered with copper. The passage was again extensively changed in 1999/2000.

Today the building is a listed building.

See also

List of office buildings in Hamburg

literature

  • Dorothée Engel (ed.): The Jungfernstieg. yesterday today the day after tomorrow , Die Hanse Hamburg 2003

Web links

Commons : Hamburger Hof, Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The checkered history of our Jungfernstieg , Hamburger Abendblatt , December 2, 1967, accessed on October 20, 2015

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 27.2 ″  E