Reitwallstrasse

Glance into Reitwallstrasse

The riding Wall Street is the brothel street in Hannover , the near the square stone gate is located. It is part of the red light district , which is a rectangle between Reuterstraße, Goethestraße, Reitwallstraße and Am Marstall and is crossed by Scholvinstraße.

history

Reitwallstraße 5A at Georgstraße at the corner of Reitwallstraße (left); Colored picture postcard No. 106 of the North German paper industry , around 1906

Urban corner dominant from 1875 at the later address Reitwallstraße 5B : The Strasser house on the corner of Goethestraße

Establishments in Reitwallstraße

The street name suggests riding facilities and a wall there. According to a city map from 1835 under the name Reitwall, it ran along an earlier wall of the city fortifications of Hanover from the Steintor towards the Leine . There were facilities there with a riding house , a riding school and the New Marstall , which belonged to the Hofmar stables on the Hohe Ufer . Around the middle of the 19th century, the street was renamed Schillerstraße (today: Am Marstall). Instead, today's small side street near the Steintor was named Reitwallstraße.

At the - then - address Reitwallstraße No. 15 was the seat of the printing house with an attached publishing house called Berenberg'sche Druckerei , which for example published the Hof- und Staats- Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 .

description

Today the street stretches between Goethestraße and Am Marstall street. Reitwallstraße is rated as tricky by the police . 300 crimes occurred in this area alone between the beginning of 2009 and 2010. Reitwallstraße is considered a refuge for drug dealers and thugs. The street was declared a dangerous place within the meaning of the Lower Saxony law on public safety and order.

The entertainment area of the red light district with brothels , strip bars , clubs, pubs and tattoo shops was under the control of the Hells Angels for many years . Until 2011, Frank Hanebuth was considered the “stone king” . Hanebuth joined the Hells Angels in 1999 together with the Bones . The Hells Angels signed a " peace treaty " with the Bandidos in the Little Italy restaurant in Hanover in 2010 with the assistance of the lawyer Götz von Fromberg . After the Hells Angels Charter Hanover dissolved in 2012, the Black Jackets were seen as strong competitors for control of the Steintorviertel in 2013 .