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Spitalerstraße is a shopping street in the
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The street can already be found on old city maps in the year of 1200, while it was first mentioned in 1320 as ''Spitalerstrate''. It was the street leading from the city to the hospital of St. George outside the city walls. There was also a "Spitaler Tor", a gate leading to the hospital, at the end of the street, but it only existed until the strong fortifications of Hamburg city walls were built in 1620 by In Fußgängerzonen herrscht die Laufkundschaft
Hamburger Abendblatt, 4 June 2014, in German
Altstadt
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quarter, Hamburg
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, Germany
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. The street, a pedestrian zone
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, is one of the central shopping districts of the city and forms a diagonal junction from Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz (''Gerhart Hauptmann Square'') is a central square in Altstadt quarter, Hamburg, Germany. The former Pferdemarkt (''Horse Market'') is located at the junction of the streets of Mönckebergstraße, Spitalerstraße and Alster ...
/Mönckebergstraße
The Mönckebergstraße (locally also called Mö) is one of the main shopping streets in Hamburg, Germany.
Mönckebergstraße is located in Hamburg-Altstadt, running some 800 m in east-west-direction between the Hauptbahnhof at Steintorwall and t ...
boulevard in the west to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (abbrev. ''Hamburg Hbf''), or Hamburg Central Railway Station in English, is the main railway station of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Opened in 1906 to replace four separate terminal stations, today Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is ...
/ Steintorwall in the east. It is the most frequented street by pedestrians in Hamburg - ahead nearby Mönckebergstraße - and the fifth most frequented street in Germany with 13,070 persons per hour on a Saturday by 2015.Pedestrian frequency counting 2015Gelsenkirchen.de
History
The street can already be found on old city maps in the year of 1200, while it was first mentioned in 1320 as ''Spitalerstrate''. It was the street leading from the city to the hospital of St. George outside the city walls. There was also a "Spitaler Tor", a gate leading to the hospital, at the end of the street, but it only existed until the strong fortifications of Hamburg city walls were built in 1620 by Jan van Valckenborgh
Johan van Valckenburgh (c. 1575 − 1624) was a Dutch military engineer who built fortresses. He is known for building the ''Bastion Henricus'' which was a fortification around Hamburg. Today the Hamburg History Museum is on this site.
Biography
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. There was a hospital directly at the street, St. Hiob's Hospital, but it was built in 1509, when the street was already named.
While the houses at Spitalerstraße mostly weren't damaged in the Great Fire of Hamburg
The great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt, Hamburg, Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and se ...
in 1842, a Cholera
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epidemic in 1892 led to the reconstruction of the former small and dark alleyway. Most of the merchant's buildings were constructed between 1906 and 1909. Spitalerstraße was turned into a pedestrian zone in 1968, after motorized traffic had increased and Hamburg was re-planned as a "car-friendly city", in which cars and pedestrians were separated wherever possible.Hamburger Abendblatt, 4 June 2014, in German
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