Lunapark Hamburg-Altona

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Rest of the park: a playground

The Lunapark Hamburg-Altona was an amusement park in the Hamburg district of Altona Nord .

The Lunapark was located between the streets Augustenburger Strasse, Kieler Strasse, Memelandallee and Lunapark, which exist today.

The amusement park was opened in 1913 , but had to close again the following year (1914) due to the beginning of the First World War . The park was reopened after the war. The park management was taken over by the "Schausteller-König" Hugo Haase in 1923 after the Hugo-Haase-Park in Stellingen was closed in 1922.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were no or only a few public parks in German cities that were also accessible to the poorer part of the population. Parks like the Altonaer Volkspark were only set up after the First World War. The Lunapark was supposed to offer the majority of the working population an opportunity to spend their free time in the then extremely densely populated and still independent city of Altona .

The lake and water systems contained in the park were fed naturally by the Isebek, which rises in this area . Unfortunately, the ponds also served as retention basins for the sewage system , so that the water was not always of the best quality.

Today only the street name Lunapark reminds of the former amusement park.

On the site of the former Luna Park , the Oelsner Employment Office , which is now a listed building, and a larger sports field were built in the late 1920s .

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literature

  • Claudia Puttkammer, Sacha Szabo: Greetings from the Luna Park. An archeology of pleasure. Amusement and amusement parks in the early twentieth century. WVB, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86573-248-4
  • Sacha Szabo: Lunaparks. On the trail of a forgotten entertainment culture, Büchner-Verlag, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-941310-83-4

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 33 ″  E