The Ballindamm is an inner city boulevard of

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. Located within the

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quarter directly at the

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, the Ballindamm represents the connection between

Jungfernstieg The Jungfernstieg () is an urban promenade in Hamburg, Germany. It is the city's foremost boulevard. Location Jungfernstieg mostly lies within the quarter of Neustadt; however at its easternmost it stretches as far as Hamburg-Altstadt. In to ...

and

Glockengießerwall The Wallring () is a semi-circular urban ensemble encircling the Hamburg-Mitte, inner city of Hamburg. It consists of a four-lane ring road with a total length of and a continuous built-up street front on its inner side. The outer perimeter is � ...

. It is thus located in the heart of the city. Today, it is a four-lane alley with parking spaces on its median strip.

History

Ballindamm was created after the Great Fire of 1842, then named Alsterdamm.''Hamburgs Straßennamen erzählen Geschichte'', Medien-Verlag Schubert Hamburg, 4. ed., 2006, p. 32, 1947 it was renamed Ballindamm. It owes its name to the German shipowner

Albert Ballin Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest ...

. The

Hapag-Lloyd Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company, the 5th biggest in the world. It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd. History The company was forme ...

building is located at the street. Likewise, various banks - mainly private banks - have their headquarters at Ballindamm. The Europa Passage, a large shopping mall, was completed in 2006. Entrances to Jungfernstieg transport hub are located at the street. At Ballindamm, the military dealer operates his ''Galerie d'Histoire André Hüsken'', offering antiquities.

Gallery

File:Hh-hapag.jpg, Hapag Lloyd building at Ballindamm File:Hh-kirdorfhaus.jpg, Kirdorfhaus, named after

Emil Kirdorf Emil Kirdorf (8 April 184713 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, ...

, until 1989 seat of Seereederei "Frigga" File:Pincerno - Lage des Ballindamms.png, Location of Ballindamm in Hamburg

References

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