This version of our City Quartet is opti- mized for tablets and PCs. Brahmfeld & Gutruf‘s City Quartet. „Surprisingly hanseatic“ for visitors of Hamburg. www.stadtquartett.com The Binnenalster Jungfernstieg and Binnenalster are a happy uni- on of urban planning in the 19th century. The Great Fire of 1842, which destroyed almost the entire Neustadt, provided an opportunity for ingenious urban planners to plan a spacious city centre on the waterfront. The Jungfern- stieg, where Brahmfeld & Gutruf was located for 170 years in the Gutruf-building, is a Apple megastore today. Neuer Wall round the corner is a street of many fine stores. Everything here is hanseatic, surprising. The international district of Hamburg: The Kontorhaus district: Jungfernstieg, Neuer Wall, Große Bleichen The Chilehaus by Fritz Höger The Neuer Wall has become the center of in- Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage: The Chile- ternational business and therefore enters into Kontorhaus by Fritz Höger from the 1920s. This competition with New Bond Street and Maxi- type of house, unique in the world, was initially milianstraße. However, there are also traditio- created at Neuer Wall and Jungfernstieg. The nal clusters such as the “quadrant” Brahmfeld Hildebrandhaus, where our shop is located, has & Gutruf, Campbell and Felix Jud. The Fleets one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau halls. (town canals), the passages, the transverse axes Large office-Kontorhouses were built behind are beautiful in this old quarter of the so-called the town hall in the early 20th century. Fritz Neustadt, which newly emerged after the great Höger’s Chilehaus is the icon of that time. fire of 1842. Part of Hamburg‘s world heritage. Alster Arcades and Town Hall The Hamburg City Hall - pure historicism The Alster Arcades go back to designs by Alexis de Chateauneuf for the newly created City Hall Neo-renaissance, historicism, many architects: market after the Great Fire in 1842. Chateau- Anyone looking at Hamburg from the anci- neuf designed round-arched arcades Italian- ent town halls in Münster or Bremen may be style, which were plastered hanseatic white. puffing their nose. But the Hamburg town hall Venezia in the north, surprising ... Vis-à-vis the from 1897, which is the state parliament at the town hall, a chapter itself, speaks for itself. In same time, is a monument of its own kind, the this Hamburg the „merchant“ of new character sixth town hall of the city history since 1216. It was created. In 1665 the citizen of Hamburg is gigantic, shows twenty kings and emperors established the „Commerz-Deputation“, where in stone, but is dedicated to the free citizens. the businessman ethics developed. Unique in the German culture. In the town hall: Anniversary Reception Mellin-Passage at Neuer Wall And sometimes a merchant family is allowed to Hamburg‘s oldest and smallest passage with appear in this impressive town hall instead of beautiful Art Nouveau paint was built to de- guests of the State: First Mayor Peter Tschent- signs by Alexis de Chateauneuf, his arcades al- scher has accepted our book „Gold and Silver I low the most beautiful view of the Hamburg love very much“ on the occasion of the 275th City Hall. In the Mellinpassage, which connects anniversary of Brahmfeld & Gutruf in 2018. In the Neuer Wall with the Alsterarkaden, is also honor of the company and the Freisfeld family, the traditional bookstore Felix Jud resident. Vis- the finest silver of the Town Hall treasure was à-vis Brahmfeld & Gutruf, Hamburg‘s oldest re- exhibited, handcrafted by the Brahmfeld & Gut- tailer, and at the same time Germany‘s oldest ruf gold-smiths in the 18th and 19th centuries. jeweler‘s house. Brahmfeld & Gutruf 275 years Brahmfeld & Gutruf Germany‘s oldest jeweler‘s house At night, when the shops are closed, Brahmfeld & Gutruf looks most beautiful: the jeweler‘s Now you can read it wonderfully: The founder house, which has been part of Hamburg‘s he- of Brahmfeld & Gutruf, Hinrich Brahmfeld, was ritage since 1743, visually connects the ground a pioneer and visionary. He laid the foundation floor with the „mezzanine floor“, as they call the for one of the city‘s most traditional companies, Belle Etage in the Kontorhouses in Hamburg‘s the oldest jewelery house in Germany. Andrea understatement. The light effects of the ar- von Treuenfeld and Caroline Freisfeld have im- chitecture then spread over the entire front. If mortalized the story in an exciting book for the you go in, you should definitely visit the mezza- 2018 anniversary. On Neuer Wall directly in nine floor. Simple, generous, open. the bookstore Felix Jud, 24.95 euros. And in all bookstores of Europe. Savoir vivre on the Outer Alster: The Outer Alster Lake Eppendorf, Harvestehude, Rotherbaum It is more than just a stroke of genius of urban Perhaps the most beautiful quarters of Ham- planners from 1827: The jammed to the lake burg? The outer Alster beginning with Rother- Alster has created habitats, which are among baum, Mittelweg - still strongly influenced by the most beautiful neighborhoods in Europe. the university. The young people and grand- Mittelweg and Rotherbaumchaussee open up children prefer to live in Eppendorf, the old-es- the western Alster side. An architecture bet- tablished ones in Harvestehude. At Eppendor- ween German Classicism and English town- fer Baum are wonderful shops. On the Isestraße house style, and again and again the view of the is an elevated railway, on Tuesdays and Fridays sailing boats on the Alster: Here Hamburg has there’s the longest weekly market in the world an unforgettable, (white) face. under the Hochbahn. Eppendorf channels Eppendorfer Landstraße It is nice to stroll between Klosterstern and Ep- In Eppendorf, the houses of the early days are pendorfer Landstraße, where large residential so large that there are even right front gardens. buildings are located. The canals, the elevated In one plays a Louis Konrad Theodor... The- train, the many small shops and bistros – you se apartment buildings for the wealthy of the can feel a vital urbanity that has apparently led imperial era have a scale that is only found in to the strongest ties of young people to the city some quarters in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Too big for of Hamburg. Big city to touch. Only in Berlin, Vi- today: most of the apartments have long been enna and Hamburg was so big planned in the divided. But the dense population creates a vi- imperial era; in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, tal urban environment in which even mom and there were smaller dimensions. pop shops still make a living. Winterhude Alster Tour Start in Winterhude At Eppendorf north joins Winterhude, also a With the little boat in the subway clock you can neighborhood with trendy shops and comfor- wonderful ferry from Winterhuder Fährhaus to table milieus. Water rich traversed by channels. Jungfernstieg or Hotel Atlantic. One then expe- There are some places on the outer Alster with riences this stroke of luck of bourgeois urban great views of the southern city. If you follow planning from the water: the Alster was dam- the course of the Alster, that goes to the so- med in 1827, 100 years before the Aasee. Since called Alstertal, follow many kilometers most then, the whole city has been opening up not beautiful city, some wonderfully laid out. The only from the Elbe (Elbchaussee), but also from Alster is the „beautiful“ river of Hamburg. The inland waters. Hamburg has more bridges than Elbe, the large river, is the lifeline. Venice and London together. St. George and primal city St. Georg und Hotel Atlantic Behind the Hotel Atlantik, right up to the train The „wild“ St. Georg, where red light and twi- station, lies the exciting district of St. Georg. It light are found, begins with the illustrious Hotel is currently experiencing gentrification. There is Atlantic. This is also the district of the big adver- also the barren Catholic Marien-Cathedral with tising agencies. Our favorite children‘s book was columbarium, beautiful simple mosaics. From written about the Atlantic, „luggage certificate St. Georg via the train station, it goes to medie- 666“ by Weidemann. Hotel Großfeld in large, in val Hamburg. Main church St. Jacobi! Speersort. the style of Kästners Emil and the detectives. Hammaburg‘s walls are modeled on plexi ben- Forgotten Classic. In the district, the opposites ches on grass, in the backhus on Speersort the meet. A permanent resident of the Atlantic is Middle Ages are in the basement. Udo Lindenberg. The Deutsches Schauspielhaus The Hamburger Kunsthalle in St. Georg It is an expression of civic pride like no other The first „German“ National Theater was foun- art house in Germany, and more than 18,000 ded in Hamburg, Lessing wrote the Hamburg friends are still supporting it today: The Kunst- Dramaturgy here. Theater as an art of citizens halle of 1869, designed by the Berlin architects has one of its roots in Hamburg, the early en- Schirrmacher and von der Hude, is the source lightenment began here, as in Königsberg, in of an ever-growing art quarter, which lives on Geneva. Theaters are still the pride of the ham- patronage of art. A must in bad weather: Caspar burger today. The Schauspielhaus in St. Georg, David Friedrich‘s picture „The Wanderer above the Thalia Theater in the old town. That too: the Sea of Fog“ of 1818. Kunsthalle is inspiring surprisingly Hanseatic. Imagination! all generations in Hamburg. They love it. The Speicherstadt Speicherstadt and the Elbphilharmonie The Speicherstadt in Hamburg is the largest on Oak stakes based warehouse complex of the The Hafencity is the city‘s future project, at world and since 1991 it is a class listed monu- the same time a problem child (Elbphilharmo- ment.