To the crack

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The entrance to the crack .
In the boxing cellar

Zur Ritze is a bar with a boxing ring in the basement in Hamburg-St. Pauli . It is located in the backyard and has a famous entrance door, which is flanked to the right and left by two spread female legs with high heels , painted by Erwin Ross . The bar is considered to be the most famous bar in St. Pauli.

Even today the crack is used as a boxing room. In the pub above there are autographs of guests on the walls: Dariusz Michalczewski , Henry Maske , Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko , Ben Becker and various pimps from St. Pauli trained in the boxing room .

The pub was founded by Hans Joachim "Hanne" Kleine. The bar was founded around 1974, but the written lease agreement for the premises dates back to 1982. In 1981 the pimp "Chinesen-Fritz" was shot in the bar. In 2006 the former “godfather of St. Pauli” Stefan Hentschel hanged himself in the basement of the crack. Hanne Kleine died in 2011, and the restaurant has been run by his widow Kirsten ever since.

After Kirsten Kleine was threatened by phone to get her to give up the restaurant, Carsten Marek has been co-tenant of the crack since November 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Zur Ritze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Hamburg / St. Pauli - Landungsbrücken and Reeperbahn  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brita Janssen: Astra: beer bottle with sharp curves. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , November 8, 1999, accessed July 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Theme day: Oh, St. Pauli! Broadcast day: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 3sat .
  3. ↑ a b THE RITZE STORY - A HOMAGE TO OLD ST. PAULI ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on the restaurant's homepage.
  4. ↑ a b Kiez greats say goodbye to the landlord of the "Ritze". In: welt.de. Axel Springer AG, November 12, 2011, accessed on July 30, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Hamburger Kiez-size: The crazy life of the godfather of St. Pauli. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, December 28, 2006, accessed July 30, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Cult pub on the Reeperbahn: landlord of the "Ritze" is dead. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, November 14, 2011, accessed July 30, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Red light boss Carsten Marek takes over the "crack". In: BILD.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0.3 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 33.7"  E