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Harvestehuder Weg

The Harvestehuder Weg is a street in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel, which runs along the foreshore of the Outer Alster Lake from Alte Rabenstraße to Klosterstern for a length of two kilometers through the quarters of Rotherbaum and Harvestehude. With numerous detached villas from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, amidst large, partly park-like gardens, it is regarded as one of the grand avenues of the Hanseatic city and, alongside the Elbchaussee, as a testament to the wealth of Hamburg's merchants and entrepreneurs during the Gründerzeit. The street is built up on only one side in large parts and thus allows, insofar as the rich tree population permits, views over the adjacent extensive green spaces and the Outer Alster Lake. It also enjoys additional attractiveness due to its proximity to the inner city. High square meter prices for plots, apartments, and houses make the Harvestehuder Weg one of the most expensive residential streets in Germany. As early as the middle of the 19th century, the street, with its initial development of country houses and summer residences of wealthy Hamburg families in what was then an area outside the city, occupied an outstanding position. It was subject to urban and social-historical upheavals in politics and the economy and reflects in its history the rise and fall of the respective holders of power and money, the so-called Pfeffersäcke in Hamburg.

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• ▸Herald of Freedom (Boston newspaper)
• ▸Boulder Bank
• ▸Avestan manuscripts

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