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".

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.

Related Topics:
Disco - Strip club - Sex shop - Brothel - Sex museum

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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.

Related Topics:
Theatre - Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cats - Mamma Mia! - ABBA

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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.

Related Topics:
Street prostitution - De Wallen - Amsterdam

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The Große Freiheit ("Great Freedom") is a cross street on the North Side with several bars and clubs, a Catholic church and street prostitution. In former years, several sex theatres here (Salambo, Regina, Colibri, Safari) would show life sex acts on stage. As of 2005, the Safari is the only life 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.

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