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BallinStadt () is the name given to a memorial park and former
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www.ballinstadt.de
* German-American history History museums in Germany Open-air museums in Germany Museums in Hamburg Museums of human migration Buildings and structures in Hamburg-Mitte Swiss chalet architecture 19th-century colonization of the Americas 2007 establishments in Germany Museums established in 2007 Hamburg America Line {{Germany-museum-stub
BallinStadt () is the name given to a memorial park and former emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanent ...
station in the Port of Hamburg, Germany.
From the 1850s to the early 1930s the ground's emigration halls were last homestead for some five million emigrants from various parts of Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...
, waiting for their departure to the Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
. The BallinStadt museum was opened in 2007 and named after Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest s ...
(1857–1918), then director General of the Hamburg America Line
The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved in its development were prominent citi ...
. The site is also marketed as the "Emigration Museum" or "Port of Dreams".
Originally built in 1901, the site's Swiss chalet style quarters provided shelter, lodging and/or entertainment for the emigrants. In 1934 the station was closed and demolished by the Nazis, but rebuilt true to original in the early 2000s. Today, the emigration halls (German: ''Auswandererhallen'') accommodate an exhibition related to the emigrants, their living conditions and experiences during their journeys to and from Hamburg
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The city of Hamburg decided to build the BallinStadt emigration world in December 2004, based on an overall concept developed by the Hamburg Maritim Foundation.
Access
BallinStadt is located at Müggenburger Zollhafen on the isle ofVeddel
Veddel () is a quarter (''Stadtteil'') in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg on the homonymous island in the Elbe river, in northern Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a c ...
, and can be reached by car, public transport from Veddel (BallinStadt) station or via ferry on the Maritime Circle Line, maritime-circle-line.de, Retrieved 25 January 2015. from St. Pauli Landungsbrücken.
See also
*European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale European colonization of the Americas took place between about 1492 and 1800. Although the Norse had explored and colonized areas of the North Atlantic, colonizing Greenland and creating a short t ...
* List of museums and cultural institutions in Hamburg
References
External links
www.ballinstadt.de
* German-American history History museums in Germany Open-air museums in Germany Museums in Hamburg Museums of human migration Buildings and structures in Hamburg-Mitte Swiss chalet architecture 19th-century colonization of the Americas 2007 establishments in Germany Museums established in 2007 Hamburg America Line {{Germany-museum-stub