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Große Bleichen (pl. in German, also ''Die Großen Bleichen'') are an upmarket
shopping street A shopping street or shopping district is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of Retail, retail establishments (such as Retail store, stores, boutiques, restaurants, and Shopping center, shopping complexes). Such are ...
in the Neustadt, Hamburg, Neustadt quarter of Hamburg, Germany.


Location

Große Bleichen are located in the Passagenviertel (passage quarter), a busy Commercial district, shopping district including some luxury brands. It leads from Jungfernstieg on Lake Binnenalster in the direction of the Großneumarkt square, the center of Neustadt quarter, crossing the streets of Heuberg/Bleichenbrücke. At Axel Springer square, the street is continued by the street of Wexstraße.


Buildings

At Große Bleichen there are many shop-fronts and passage entrances, including Hamburger Hof, Hanse-Viertel (Hanse quarter), Galleria, Kaufmannshaus (Merchant's House) and Bleichenhof. Some restaurants and cafés can be found here as well. Ohnsorg-Theater, Ohnsorg theatre was located here until it moved to its new location near Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hauptbahnhof (main station) in 2011. Hamburg public libraries had their central library at the street from 1986 to 2004, when it moved to Hühnerposten, also near the main station.


History

The street was built in 1718, the name was first recorded in 1732. "Bleichen" means to bleach, Hamburg residents bleached their linen on the nearby fields, and also commercial bleachers could be found near the street.Horst Beckershaus: ''Die Hamburger Straßennamen. Woher sie kommen und was sie bedeuten'', 5. ed., Hamburg 2002, p. 131.


See also

*Neuer Wall (parallel shopping street) *List of leading shopping streets and districts by city


References


External links


Große Bleichen
at Hamburg.de Streets in Hamburg Hamburg-Mitte Shopping districts and streets in Germany Tourist attractions in Hamburg {{hamburg-geo-stub