Steindamm (Hamburg)
The stone dam is a significant main street in the Hamburg district of St. Georg .
history
In 1539, Steindamm was the first paved street to be laid outside the Hamburg city walls. It connected the stone gate of the Hamburg ramparts with the Lübeck gate in the fortification of the suburb of St. Georg . As part of the connection between the cities of Hamburg and Lübeck (later Bundesstrasse 75 ), it was the city's busiest street.
After the so-called Wilhelminian era around 1880 to 1890, St. Georg was consistently populated with four-story tenement houses. The Steindamm developed into a main shopping street, which was also important beyond the district. At the beginning of the 20th century, seven tram lines ran through it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 20).
The section between Steintorplatz and Stralsunder Straße is still lined with four-story houses today. This part has been traffic-calmed since the tram was closed in 1960. In 1960 this part of the Steindamm still had a “bourgeois” character, the expansion of the entertainment business in the St. Georg district initially took place discreetly. Since the mid-1970s there have been citizens' initiatives to revalue St. Georg's place of residence and thus also the Steindamm and to assert this against one-sided use as an amusement mile.
The area at the Steindamm is today on the one hand strongly Turkish-Muslim. Numerous Turkish and Oriental restaurants, shops and mosques are located on and around the Steindamm. On the other hand, the area between the main train station and Stralsunder Straße is also characterized by sex shops and prostitution. However, these should be gradually suppressed. The Steindamm gained national fame through the Hansa Theater .
The Steindamm is 800 m long between Steintorplatz and Lohmühlenstraße.
Eastern part
After the destruction in 1943, mainly office buildings were built in the eastern part. Verkehrlich this is part of the stone by the dam stop Lohmühlenstraße the high line U1 connected. In addition, this part of the road from the Kreuzweg was expanded into a four-lane thoroughfare.
The so-called horror house
→ Main article: Horror house
An administration building with five individual complexes was built for the DAK between 1958 and 1969 . In 1989 it was sold to an investor and housed Deutsche Telekom until 1993 . The building has been empty since then. There were various usage and new building concepts, none of which was implemented. Over the years, the property with its 720 offices attracted more and more homeless and drug addicts from the area who had gained access to the house. In the summer of 2001, a small fire broke out in the building. The fire brigade not only encountered a lot of rubbish and dirt during the extinguishing work, but also found the corpse of a young woman on the ground floor who had been strangled by a client here. After the murder, the building, dubbed a horror house by the press, was boarded up so that no one could enter.
In 2006 the house was foreclosed, demolition began in October 2007, and in June 2008 the foundation stone was laid for a new building, which was completed in 2010. Shops, 63 apartments, 24,000 m² offices and a hotel with 464 rooms, the Motel One , were built on 20 floors and 500 underground parking spaces.
Anton-Philips-Haus
The inauguration of the new administration building of Allgemeine Deutsche Philips Industrie , Steindamm 94, took place in March 1971 in the presence of Mayor Herbert Weichmann (SPD). Senator Hans Rau (FDP) also took part in the event. After moving to Lübeckertordamm, the house was renovated and partially converted into a boarding house.
al-Quds mosque Hamburg
The al-Quds mosque Hamburg was located in house 103 on Steindamm .
Sources / Notes
- ↑ St. Georg - suburb or prejudice? Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, 1978.
- ↑ St. Georg - suburb or prejudice? Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg, 1978; as well as own knowledge
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/12/28/517595.html
- ↑ http://www.architekturarchiv-web.de/news/2008_06_25.htm ( 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.
- ↑ Horror House is a feast for the eyes. In: bild.de , June 25, 2008, accessed on August 11, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.investment-on.com/component/content/article/34-investment-magazin/3027-motel-one-hamburg-alster-eroeffnet.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/02/22/536267.html
- ↑ A visit to the terrorists' mosque. , Die Welt on January 28, 2008
