A sexshop on the Reeperbahn

The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, the centre of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district. In German it is also called "die sündige Meile" ("the sinful mile"), or simply "der Kiez". Location: 53°32′58.0″N, 9°57′44.2″ECoordinates: 53°32′58.0″N, 9°57′44.2″E. Image File history File links Photo taken by myself and released into puplic domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Photo taken by myself and released into puplic domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE6 First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  755 km² (292 sq mi) Population 1,754,317 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 2,324 /km² (6,018... St. ... The De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam A red-light district is a neighborhoooood where prostitution and other businesses in the sex industry flourish. ... Kiez is a German word that refers to a city neighbourhood; a relatively small community within a larger town. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Name

The name Reeperbahn comes from the old Low German word Reep meaning "a heavy rope for a ship"; in former times the street was a ropewalk where these ropes were produced for the nearby harbour. Abbey Road in London A street name or odonym is an identifying name given to a street. ... Low German (also called Niederdeutsch, Plattdeutsch or Plattdüütsch) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch (Low German), and in Eastern Netherlands where it is officially called Nedersaksisch (Low Saxon). Low refers to... A ropewalk is a long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted in to rope. ...

The street, and its side streets

The street is lined with many restaurants, discos and probably hundreds of bars. There are also strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, a sex museum and the like. The Operettenhaus, a musical-theatre, is also located at the Reeperbahn. It played Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats for many years and now Mamma Mia!, an ABBA-musical. There are other theatres at the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli Theater, Imperial Theater, Schmidts Tivoli) and also several Cabarets/Varietés. Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that blends elements of funk and soul music that was first popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s. ... For the book or movie Striptease see Striptease (book) and Striptease (movie) A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes their clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience, usually performed in nightclubs. ... Front window of a Tokyo sex shop advertising adult toys A sex shop is a shop that sells products such as sex toys, pornography, erotic lingerie, erotic books, and safer sex products such as condoms and dental dams. ... A brothel, also known as a bordello or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with the clients. ... A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Cats is an award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possums Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T. S. Eliot. ... The Prince Edward Theatre on Old Compton Street Mamma Mia! showing at Cirkus in Stockholm 2006. ... ABBA was a Swedish pop music group active from 1972 until 1982. ...

Entrance to Herbertstraße; sign to the right of the gate reads "No entrance for juveniles under 18 years of age and women".

A famous landmark is the Davidwache, a police-station located on the South side of the Reeperbahn at the cross street Davidstraße. Street prostitution is legal during certain times of the day on Davidstraße. The Herbertstraße, a short side street of the Davidstraße, has prostitutes behind windows waiting for customers. Unlike De Wallen, the red-light district in Amsterdam, it is closed off with a large gate and juveniles and female visitors are not allowed in. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3264x2448, 3517 KB) Eingang zur Herbertstrasse - Ansicht von der Gerhardstrasse, Tore sind geschlossen, Aufgenommen mit Olympus E300 Source: Andreas Strasser File links The following pages link to this file: Reeperbahn ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3264x2448, 3517 KB) Eingang zur Herbertstrasse - Ansicht von der Gerhardstrasse, Tore sind geschlossen, Aufgenommen mit Olympus E300 Source: Andreas Strasser File links The following pages link to this file: Reeperbahn ... Whore redirects here. ... The red light district in Amsterdam De Wallen, also known as Walletjes or Rosse Buurt, is the largest and best-known red-light district in Amsterdam, a major tourist attraction. ... Nickname: Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen (PvdA)  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ...

The Große Freiheit ("Great Freedom") is a cross street on the North Side with several bars, clubs and a Catholic church. In former years, several sex theatres here (Salambo, Regina, Colibri, Safari) would show live sex acts on stage. As of 2005, the Safari is the only live sex theatre left in Germany. The popular table dance club Dollhouse now takes the place of the Salambo. The street's name comes from the fact that Catholics were allowed to practice their religion here at a time when this district did not yet belong to Hamburg; they were forbidden from doing so in Protestant Hamburg proper. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bartop dancing is encouraged at New York Citys Hogs and Heifers, evidenced by the ever-expanding ceiling of brassieres hung by patrons. ...

The Beatles

In the early 1960s, The Beatles (who had not yet become world-famous) played in several clubs around the Reeperbahn, including the Star-Club, Kaiserkeller, Top Ten and Indra. Stories about the band's residencies, onstage and offstage antics are legendary; some stories are true (on a dare, John Lennon played a song set in his underwear, while George Harrison replied by playing a later set with a toilet seat around his neck), others inflated (the band urinating in an alley as nuns walked past was told rather differently later). A fellow musician, Ted "Kingsize" Taylor, made a crude tape recording of their last New Year's Eve show, at the Star-Club in December 1962; a cleaned-up version of the tape was later released as an album, later characterized by Harrison as "Awful." 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... The Star-Club was a music club in Hamburg, Germany that opened April 13, 1962 and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder und Horst Fascher. ... Kaiserkeller was a night club in Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943[1][2] – 29 November 2001[3]) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. ... For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). ... Compact audio cassette Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. ... The quality of this article or section may be compromised by peacock terms. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Famously John Lennon is quoted: "I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg". John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE6 First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  755 km² (292 sq mi) Population 1,754,317 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 2,324 /km² (6,018...

Movies, songs, etc.

The popular 1944 movie Große Freiheit Nr. 7 tells the story of a singer (played by Hans Albers) who works in a Reeperbahn club and falls in love with a girl played by Ilse Werner. Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann played in the 1954 movie Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins ("On the Reeperbahn at 12:30 am"). The title song, sung by Albers, is still popular to this day and can often be heard in St. Pauli. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Hans Albers Hans Albers (September 22, 1891 Hamburg - July 24, 1960 Starnberg) was a German actor and singer. ... Ilse Werner (July 11, 1921 - August 8, 2005) was an actress and singer, born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (present day Jakarta, Indonesia). ... Heinz Rühmann The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Heinz Ruehmann. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... St. ...

"Reeperbahn" is also the name of a Swedish 80's band, and a song by Tom Waits. The Finnish artist Irwin Goodman has made a song and an album called "St.Pauli ja Reeperbahn". It is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song "Human Hands", in Van Morrison's song "Heavy Connection" and in the Midnight Oil song "Mountains of Burma". Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Irwin Goodman (real name: Antti Yrjö Hammarberg, 14 September 1943, Hämeenlinna – 14 January 1991, Hamina) was a popular Finnish singer. ... Declan Patrick MacManus (born August 25, 1954, in London), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish ancestry. ... George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

On May 14th, 1998, The Smashing Pumpkins played a free concert on the street, drawing so many people that some were forced to watch from the roofs of the newsstands. The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. ...

Punk band Pistol Grip has a song titled Reeperbahn on the unreleased album Machines of String Theory in C#M. (As of March 2007) On a firearm, a pistol grip is a portion of the gun which is held by the hand that orients the hand in a manner similar to the position one would take with a conventional pistol such as a Colt 1911. ...

Australian pop-punk band The Hard-Ons have a song called "Don't Fear The Reaperbahn" on their 2007 album Most People Are Nicer Than Us. Its title is a play on the Blue Oyster Cult song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". Keish, Blackie and Ray from the Hard-Ons The Hard-Ons are a punk rock band from Sydney, Australia that formed in 1982. ... Blue Öyster Cult is a psychedelic/heavy metal band probably best known for their 1976 single (Dont Fear) The Reaper from Agents Of Fortune, 1981 single Burning For You from Fire of Unknown Origin, and appearing on the Heavy Metal movie soundtrack with Veteran of the Psychic Wars which... (Dont Fear) The Reaper is a song by the Blue Öyster Cult from the 1976 album Agents of Fortune. ...

Pubs, Discotheques, Shops

• Aftershave (Funk/House/Black)
• Angie's Nightclub (Soul/Jazz/Livebands) website
• Betty Ford Klinik
• Café Keese
• Change (Gay)(Electronica) website
• China Lounge (House) website
• Condomerie Hamburg (shop) website
• Docks (Trance/Latin/RnB/Mixed) website
• Cult Club (70s, 80s, Classics) website
• Dollhouse (Strip Club) Info
• Echochamber (Reggae/Dancehall/Electro) website
• Erotic Art Museum
• Funky Pussy Club (HipHop/R&B) Info
• Frida B (Mixed)
• Große Freiheit 36 (Mixed) website
• Grünspan (Mixed/Livebands) website
• Hasenschaukel website
• Kaiserkeller (rock/indie/alternative/crossover) (belongs to Große Freiheit 36)
• La Cage (House/Techno)
• Las Vegas Jackpot (Casino)
• Lounge (House/Soul/Latin/Lounge) Info
• LOVE Club (House, Jaava Electronica, Hip-Hop, R&B)[1]
• Mandarin Kasino (HipHop/RnB/Funk/Soul/Reggae/Livebands) Info
• Molotow (Livemusic/Clubnights/Rock) website
• Mojo Club (Blackmusic/Groove/Soul/Jazz)
• Pit (Gay) (Electronica) website
• Pacha (House) website
• Panoptikum (waxworks) website
• Rutsche (Dancehall/Techno/Pop/Rock) website
• Schmidts Tivoli (Theater) website
• Sexy Heaven (Sex Shop)
• Soundgarden (Pop/Rock/Electro/Techno/Oldie)
• Superfly (House/HipHop/Mixed) website
• Thomas Read (House/Pop/R&B, Irish Pub) website
• Tunnel (Trance/Techno/Hardstyle/Hardcore) website
• Waagenbau (Electronica/Techno/HipHop) website

Kaiserkeller was a night club in Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. ...

See also

• Prostitution in Germany

A prostitute in Germany, 1999 Prostitution in Germany is legal and widespread. ...

External links

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Reeperbahn

• http://reeperbahn.hamburg.de - links and information about the reeperbahn (in German)
• http://www.reeperbahn.de - also links to different clubs, bars, restaurants, etc. (in German)
• http://www.backtony.com - Nightlife and scene Magazine around the Reeperbahn. (in German)
• http://21orover.com/discus/messages/43/1010.html - Guide to Sex in Hamburg area. (in English)
• http://www.reeperbahnmusic.co.uk - British rock band, based in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Played with bands such as Mondo Generator and others.
• http://www.szene-in-hamburg.de/reeperbahn.html - the night life in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. (in German)