Peterstraße
Reconstructed row of baroque merchant facades assembled from demolished corners of the old town.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Peterstraße in Hamburg starts by admitting that every timbered gable and brick front around you is a copy or a salvaged fragment, none of it born on this stretch of ground. You'll hear what actually stood here before Allied bombs flattened old Hamburg: mostly poor Jewish tradespeople's shops, not the wealthy merchant houses the street now imitates. The guide follows grain merchant Alfred Toepfer's decades-long project to rebuild the street from scattered old materials, and the one genuinely original building on it, the Beyling-Stift, built as low-rent housing rather than a showpiece.
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