Harry's Hamburg Harbor Bazaar
Harrys Hamburger Hafenbasar (short: Harrys Hafenbasar) is a museum and rarity shop that has existed in St. Pauli in Hamburg since 1954 and has been in Hamburg's Hafencity since 2013. The harbor bazaar is a tourist attraction and is listed in many travel guides about Hamburg.
history
In 1952 Harry Rosenberg (1925–2000), a former seaman, founded a stamp and coin shop in Sankt Pauli. Rosenberg had decorated this shop with souvenirs from his time as a seaman and the estate of Captain Haase , whose collection of exotic items from 1935 to 1954 was a "museum bar" on the Reeperbahn . While Rosenberg's actual business was largely idle, customers admired his exotic products and bought some of them. Rosenberg turned around and began in 1954 to buy exotic goods from seafarers and to display, barter and sell them in his shop, which he baptized "Harrys Hamburger Hafenbasar". Following the example of Käptn Haase, Rosenberg called his shop a “museum”, demanded admission and sold his exhibits.
Rosenberg's Hafenbasar was already a local celebrity when the national press reported that it was buying, exhibiting and offering for sale real shrunken heads. Since then, Harry's Hamburg Harbor Bazaar has been featured in many Hamburg travel guides around the world. Further business space was rented; In its heyday, the harbor bazaar had three sales outlets with 2,600 square meters in 26 rooms.
In 1996 Rosenberg withdrew and sold the business to his daughter Karin. The occasion was the expansion of the neighboring Erotic Art Museum , which wanted to use the cellar vaults in the house at Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 65, which had been home to the harbor bazaar for 40 years. The move was only supposed to go a few doors further, to Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 89-91, but with several 10,000 exhibits that was a problem. After a newspaper announcement, around 200 volunteers organized a human chain that moved the exhibits to the new premises on August 24, 1996.
The next move followed in 1999 because the new domicile had to be completely renovated. The originally time-limited transfer to a factory hall at the end of the Great Freedom should only take a year; the rental agreement was concluded accordingly. Since the renovation was delayed considerably, new rooms had to be found or the bazaar had to be closed. The idea of "off" was also obvious because the founder of the business died during this period after a serious illness. In addition, due to the frequent change of location and the constant reduction in the size of the exhibition and sales area (most recently to 700 m²), the clientele stayed away, so that the business hardly generated any money. Eventually they found a new place to stay at Erichstrasse 56, where in September 2001 the harbor bazaar, close to the former location of the Käptn Haase museum bar, but far from walk-in customers and only on 300 m², found its home.
Once again, the museum, which was financially troubled by the relocations and the unfavorable situation, needed and received help: a Hamburg marketing company and a number of artists from the Kiez tried to raise awareness of the harbor bazaar with various campaigns. A website and an internet shop were also created as part of this campaign.
On April 11, 2011, Karin Rosenberg died of a heart attack. The 18-year-old daughter Kim Rosenberg ran the shop with friends and supporters until August 31, 2011, although the continued existence of the business was threatened due to the difficult financial situation.
On September 1, 2011, the former ENT doctor Gereon Boos took over the harbor bazaar out of fascination for the history of the museum and out of respect for Harry and Karin Rosenberg. He wanted to keep the museum with the diversity of the objects and art treasures collected by seafarers in almost 60 years in its worldwide uniqueness. Since the lease was terminated at the end of 2012, the institution had to move again. On September 26, 2013, the harbor bazaar opened at Sandtorkai in HafenCity . In the hull of the Greif floating crane on pontoon 5 there are now 332,428 objects in 33 themed chambers.
On March 25, 2014, Gereon Boos died of a brain tumor at the age of 47 . Since then the Hafenbasar has been continued by the "Hafenbasar eV" association, which was founded before Boos' death.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost of August 25, 1996 (currently not archived online)
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost dated December 31, 1996, point 50 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article in the Hamburger Morgenpost from August 30, 2001, online archive ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost, September 5, 2003, online archive ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, March 29, 2004: "Internet trade: St. Paulians want to save Harry's harbor bazaar" (also in the Abendblatt's online archive - subject to a charge)
- ↑ Doctor saves culture ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of April 27, 2011: Harry's harbor bazaar before the end? , accessed May 12, 2011
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of October 16, 2012: Harry's harbor bazaar pulls on a floating crane
- ↑ Owner of Harrys Hafenbasar dies at the age of only 47. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from March 27, 2014 (accessed on March 28, 2014).
- ↑ Caro watches over Hamburg's treasure chest In: Bild (newspaper)
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