Karolinenviertel
Dense Gründerzeit tenement quarter of ornate street-front facades hiding rear courtyard rowhouses once built to squeeze in extra tenants.
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This guide to Karolinenviertel in Hamburg walks a street of only two hundred eighty-one buildings that somehow holds over four thousand residents, and asks how such a short stretch got so crowded. It traces the district's rise after 1860, when Hamburg tore down its old city walls and land prices sent developers scrambling to build twice over, a tenement facing the street and a hidden second row of housing crammed into the courtyard behind it. Those courtyard dwellings, called Terrasse housing, sat beside a slaughterhouse that gave the whole quarter its older, harsher name before Karolinenstrasse replaced it.
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