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Due to the problems with prostitution and the high crime rate, in 2007 the Senate of Hamburg enacted a ban on weapons in the Reeperbahn area. The only such area with a weapons ban in Hamburg is the "Hansaplatz", St. Georg. [ [http://www.presseportal.de/polizeipresse/pm/6337/1102163/polizei_hamburg Ban of weapons in Hamburg] press release police Hamburg de icon]

The Beatles

In the early 1960s, The Beatles (who had not yet become world-famous) played in several clubs around the Reeperbahn, including the "Star-Club", "Kaiserkeller", "Top Ten" and "Indra". Stories about the band's residencies, onstage and offstage antics are legendary; some stories are true (on a dare, John Lennon played a song set in his underwear, while George Harrison replied by playing a later set with a toilet seat around his neck), others inflated (the band urinating in an alley as nuns walked past was told rather differently later). A fellow musician, Ted "Kingsize" Taylor, made a crude tape recording of their last New Year's Eve show, at the Star-Club in December 1962; a cleaned-up version of the tape was later released as an album, later characterized by Harrison as "Awful."

Famously John Lennon is quoted: "I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg".Fact|date=February 2008

In memory of this time a "Beatles-Platz" is build at the cross of Reeperbahn and Große Freiheit. [ [http://www.bild.de/BILD/hamburg/aktuell/2008/05/26/baustart-fuer-hamburgs-beatles-platz/donnerstag-ist-spatenstich-an-der-grossen-freiheit,geo=4641162.html Spatensich für Beatles-Platz] bild.de de icon Retrieved on June 19 2008]

Movies, songs, etc.

The popular 1944 movie "Große Freiheit Nr. 7" tells the story of a singer (played by Hans Albers) who works in a Reeperbahn club and falls in love with a girl played by Ilse Werner. Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann played in the 1954 movie "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins" ("On the Reeperbahn half past midnight", after a Albers' song from the 1944 movie). The title song, sung by Albers, is still popular to this day and can often be heard in, or in connection with, St. Pauli.

In 1958, Trinidadian calypso artiste, Lord Invader recorded a track entitled "My Experience On The Reeperbahn". It recalls a time when he was conned by a transvestite. "You cannot tell a man from a woman. I was a man dancing hand in hand with a man dressed as woman on the Reeperbahn".

"Reeperbahn (song)" is a 1978 song by Udo Lindenberg, to the tune of Penny lane, lamenting the decay of the entertainment there.

Reeperbahn is the name of a Swedish 80's band. The Finnish artist Irwin Goodman has made a song and an album called "St.Pauli ja Reeperbahn". It is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song "Human Hands", in Van Morrison's song "Heavy Connection" and in the Midnight Oil song "Mountains of Burma". The punk band The Toy Dolls has a song titled "Caught up the Reeperbahn" first released on their 1993 album "Absurd-Ditties".

"Reeperbahn" is the name of a track from the Christian rock group Model Engine's CD "The Lean Years Tradition"

On May 14th, 1998, The Smashing Pumpkins played a free concert on the street, drawing so many people that some were forced to watch from the roofs of the newsstands.

Tom Waits' 2002 release Alice contains a track called "Reeperbahn." Australian pop-punk band The Hard-Ons have a song called "Don't Fear The Reaperbahn" on their 2007 album "Most People Are Nicer Than Us". Its title is a play on the Blue Öyster Cult song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".

S-Bahn station

The "Reeperbahn" station [Name, station code and category: Liste Bahnhofskategorie 2008, DB Station&Service AG, Köthener Straße 2, 10963 Berlin (2008) de icon] of the S-Bahn is located at the eastern end of the street Reeperbahn. It is part of the tunnel from the Hamburg main station in the quarter St. Georg to Hamburg-Altona railway station.

tation layout

The station is an underground island platform with two tracks and two exits. At the exit Nobistor is a bus stop and a taxicab stand. The station can also be used as an air-raid shelter. The station is not accessible for handicapped persons, because there is no lift.

tation service

On track 1 the trains in destination Wedel, Pinneberg and Altona and on track 2 the trains in destination Stade, Bergedorf and Poppenbüttel are calling Reeperbahn in the rush hours every 2 to 3 minutes.

Pubs, discotheques, shops

*Aftershave (Funk/House/Black)
*Angie's Nightclub (Soul/Jazz/Livebands)
*Beat Club
*Café Keese
*Change (Gay)(Electronica)
*China Lounge (House) [http://www.china-lounge.de/ website]
*Cobra Bar
*Condomerie Hamburg (shop) [http://www.condomerie.de/ website]
*Docks (Trance/Latin/RnB/Mixed) [http://www.docks.de/ website]
*Cult Club (70s, 80s, Classics) [http://www.cult-hh.de/ website]
*Darkside Boutique (Fetish Shop) [http://www.darkside-boutique.de/ website]
*Dollhouse (Strip Club) [http://www.locationsite.de/hamburg/dollhouse.htm Info]
*Echochamber (Reggae/Dancehall/Electro)
*Erotic Art Museum
*Funky Pussy Club (HipHop/R&B) [http://www.locationsite.de/hamburg/funkypussy.htm Info]
*Frida B (Mixed)
*Große Freiheit 36 (Mixed) [http://www.grossefreiheit36.de/ website]
*Grünspan (Mixed/Livebands) [http://www.gruenspan.de website]
*Halo [http://www.haloclubbing.de website]
*Hasenschaukel [http://www.hasenschaukel.de website]
*Kaiserkeller (rock/indie/alternative/crossover) (belongs to [http://www.grossefreiheit36.de/ Große Freiheit 36] )
*La Cage (House/Techno)
*Las Vegas Jackpot (Casino)
*Lounge (House/Soul/Latin/Lounge) [http://www.locationsite.de/hamburg/lounge.htm Info]
*LOVE Club (House, Jaava Electronica, Hip-Hop, R&B) [http://www.lovehamburg.de]
*Mandarin Kasino (HipHop/RnB/Funk/Soul/Reggae/Livebands) [http://www.mandarin-kasino.de Info]
*Molotow (Livemusic/Clubnights/Rock) [http://www.molotowclub.com/index.htm website]
*Mojo Club (now located Mandarin Kansino) (Blackmusic/Groove/Soul/Jazz)
*Pacha (House) [http://www.pacha-hh.de website]
*Panoptikum (waxworks) [http://www.panoptikum.de/ website]
*Rutsche (Dancehall/Techno/Pop/Rock) [http://www.dierutsche.de/ website]
*Schmidts Tivoli (Theater) [http://www.tivoli.de/ website]
*Sexy Angel (Sex Shop and Cinema) [http://www.sexy-angel.net/ website]
*Sexy Heaven (Sex Shop) [http://www.sexy-heaven.de/ website]
*Soundgarden (Pop/Rock/Electro/Techno/Oldie)
*Superfly (House/HipHop/Mixed) [http://www.super-fly-club.de/ website]
*Thomas Read (House/Pop/R&B, Irish Pub) [http://www.thomasread.de website]
*Tunnel (Trance/Techno/Hardstyle/Hardcore) [http://www.tunnel.de/ website]

See also

* Prostitution in Germany

References

External links

* http://reeperbahn.hamburg.de - links and information about the reeperbahn (in German)
* http://www.szene-in-hamburg.de/reeperbahn.html - the night life in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. (in German)