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Schanzenviertel
Schanzenviertel, 20357 Hamburg-Altona
Ornate former theatre turned squatted social centre, its wartime bunker and boxing rings still folded into the walls.
This guide to the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg begins with a six-month lease signed in August 1989, days before the Berlin Wall fell, for a derelict building on Schulterblatt. It traces the site's earlier lives as the Floratheater concert hall, a cigarette factory, a boxing ring, and a wartime bunker poured straight into its structure. Neighbors fought block by block against a developer's plan to gut the shell for a Phantom of the Opera stage, after a run as a discount kitchenware shop called One Thousand Pots.
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