Police Commissionerate 15 – Davidwache
Working precinct on the Reeperbahn, famed as Europe's smallest and busiest police station.
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This guide to Davidwache, Europe's smallest police station on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, opens on the night of November 29, 1960, when Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best are packing up a storeroom behind the Bambi Kino, with no light switch to see by. It follows the sailors, drinkers and nightly spectacle the Reeperbahn has always drawn, and the red-brick station itself, raised in 1914 by architect Fritz Schumacher. You'll meet Bruno Koschmider, the club owner who had just fired the band, and a precinct still covering barely one square kilometer today.
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