The Rothenbaumchaussee is an inner-city street in the

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quarters of

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and Harvestehude. It runs from the Edmund-Siemers-Allee at

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to the Klosterstern square.

History

The name Rotherbaum derives from a former sentry post at the time of city fortification. The post was at the starting point of the road to Eppendorf, at a crossing over a stream called Hundebek and is said to have had a red turnpike (German: ''Schlagbaum''),Rotherbaum, www.hamburg.de
/ref> which the old German term ''Rother Baum'' or ''Der Rothe Baum'' (depending on grammatical context) refers to. Despite the modern spelling in one word and with historical ''th'', the place and also the street name often occurs in diffracted form ("am Rothenbaum", "Rothenbaumchaussee").

Buildings

At the Rothenbaumchaussee the Moorweidenpark with the Zombeck Tower, the Grand Elysée Hotel, the Faculty of Law of the

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, the Curiohaus, the Museum of Ethnology Hamburg, now renamed to Museum am Rothenbaum, the underground station Hallerstraße, the Multimedia Centre Rotherbaum by

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Multimedia Centre Hamburg
/ref> with the local TV station Hamburg 1, the tennis stadium Am Rothenbaum, the NDR broadcasting studio and the underground station Klosterstern are located. Several buildings are listed.

Sports

The Hamburg Half Marathon has its finishing line at Rothenbaumchaussee. The Sportplatz am Rothenbaum of the football club

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as well as the office of the club were also located at Rothenbaumchaussee for many decades. At the location of the Sportplatz, among other buildings, the Multimedia Centre Rotherbaum was opened in 1999.

References

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Historical views of Rothenbaumchaussee
{{Coord, 53.5709, 9.9885, region:DE_type:landmark, display=title Streets in Hamburg Buildings and structures in Eimsbüttel