JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. Find out why the Reeperbahn in St. Pauli is so popular and where the name comes from. Discover, next to the best places to celebrate, why the widely practiced profession in the world has settled here. Our guides will take you to a unique experience to Hamburg's most sinful mile, a tour through the shady and scandalous streets of this red light district.
Tickets can only be booked online. There are no HTI sales points on site. Datum: Zeit: Uhr. The name Reeperbahn means ropewalk and was a place were once ropes for sailing ships were made.
Long strands of material are laid down a lane before being twisted into ropes. The first residential buildings were designed in as small apartment buildings in the style of a row of houses on the north side of the Reeperbahn between Millerntor and Hamburger Berg. Today the Reeperbahn is lined with restaurants , night clubs , discotheques and bars. You will find also strip clubs , sex shops , brothels and related businesses here. It is located on St. Pauli near the Reeperbahn. The street is about meters long, in the houses the prostitutes sit on stools in windows, present themselves and wait for clients or speak to the male passers-by while the window is open.
No one can see in passing, since screens were erected at both ends of the road in They are a remnant of a brown past. Posters prohibiting "Young people under 18 and women" from entering, which legally is more than doubtful.
It is a public road that can be entered by anyone and every woman. All non-male visitors should be aware, that once a woman will venture behind the wall, she is prompted to leave again very quickly with the most hefty swearwords, rotten eggs and sometimes also solid arguments. The streets belonged to a special economic zone. Independent craftsmen were able to pursue their trade against an annual tax and Catholics were allowed to practise their religion here; they were forbidden from doing so in Protestant Hamburg proper.
