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Spielbudenplatz

Reeperbahn
Spielbudenplatz Hamburg St. Pauli.jpg
Reeperbahn (right) passing Spielbudenplatz
Length 930 m
Location St. Pauli,
Hamburg, Germany
Postal code 20359, 22767
Nearest metro station Hamburg S1.svgHamburg S3.svg Reeperbahn
Hamburg U3.svg St. Pauli
Coordinates 53°32′58″N 9°57′44″E / 53.54944°N 9.96222°E / 53.54944; 9.96222
Millerntor end Millerntorplatz
Major
junctions
Davidstraße,
Große Freiheit
Nobistor end Holstenstraße
Other
Known for night life, prostitution

The Reeperbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈʀeːpɐˌbaːn]) is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife (with Schanze) and also the city's major red-light district. In German it is also called die sündigste Meile (the most sinful mile) and nicknamed Kiez. The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals.

The name Reeperbahn means ropewalk, which is a place where ropes are made (Low German Reep = rope, the standard German word is Seil; Bahn= track). Until the 1620s Hamburg's ropewalks had been located in the Neustadt (New Town) quarter of the inner city close to the Elbe, which then became a densely built up area. Therefore, the ropewalks "had to be relocated outside the city walls on the country road leading toward Altona – which later took on the street name 'Reperbahn'." The street was a ropewalk in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The street is lined with restaurants, night clubs, discotheques and bars. There are also strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, a sex museum and similar businesses.

The Operettenhaus, a musical theatre, is also located at the Reeperbahn. It played Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats for many years, after that Mamma Mia!, an ABBA-musical, followed by "Ich war noch niemals in New York", ("I have never been to New York") featuring hit songs by Austrian singer/songwriter Udo Jürgens, then Sister Act and finally Rocky, based on the Stallone film. There are other theatres at the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli Theater, Imperial Theater, Schmidt's Tivoli) and also several Cabarets/Varietés.


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