Jungfernstieg

This guide to Jungfernstieg in Hamburg follows Augustin Lancelot de Quatre Barbes, a French nobleman who fled the Revolution and arrived with a skill nobody in the city had seen. In 1799 he opened a small pavilion on this fashionable lakeside promenade, the same street where wealthy families once walked their unmarried daughters hoping for a good match. You'll hear how a crowd that came to see and be seen became customers instead, and how demand kept rebuilding his little shop grander through the next century. Listen at the promenade's edge, facing the Binnenalster.