{"id":11237,"date":"2019-11-21T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:51:28","slug":"st-pauli-whats-up-with-this-infamous-german-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/st-pauli-whats-up-with-this-infamous-german-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pauli &#8211; What&#8217;s up with this infamous German neighborhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Pauli. You may have heard of this <em>Stadtteil <\/em>(district) in Hamburg. It is <em>ber\u00fcchtigt\u00a0<\/em>(infamous) and known all over Germany. But why? What&#8217;s so special about St. Pauli?<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>FC St. Pauli<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FC St. Pauli \u2013 Germany\u2019s Progressive, Punk Soccer Club\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9efuiQUC4dc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first reason is the\u00a0<em>Fu\u00dfballverein\u00a0<\/em>(football club)\u00a0<em>FC St. Pauli<\/em> that&#8217;s from this\u00a0<em>Stadtteil<\/em>. While the name suggests that this is a\u00a0<em>Fu\u00dfballverein\u00a0<\/em>only, it is much more. With 19\u00a0<em>Abteilungen\u00a0<\/em>(divisions),\u00a0<em>FC St. Pauli\u00a0<\/em>has teams from\u00a0<em>Rugby<\/em> (rugby) to\u00a0<em>Segeln\u00a0<\/em>(sailing) to\u00a0<em>Schach\u00a0<\/em>(chess). With 29,000 members, it is one of the largest\u00a0<em>Sportvereine\u00a0<\/em>(sport clubs) of Germany. And that&#8217;s about 7,000 people more than actually live in the <em>Stadtteil\u00a0<\/em>St. Pauli!<\/p>\n<p>And while that is not particularly extraordinary, the <em>Fanszene\u00a0<\/em>(fan scene) of the club is. It identified itself as being\u00a0<em>politisch\u00a0<\/em>(political) from the start. From blocking\u00a0<em>Bauprojekte\u00a0<\/em>(construction projects) in their own\u00a0<em>Stadt\u00a0<\/em>(city) to confronting fans of rivaling football teams through (controversial) political statements, it has certainly contributed to the fame of St. Pauli.<\/p>\n<p>Also, because the <em>Sportplatz\u00a0<\/em>(playing field) is close to the\u00a0<em>Reeperbahn<\/em>, the football players are sometimes also called\u00a0<em>Kiezkicker\u00a0<\/em>(Kiez kickers). Let&#8217;s talk about that\u00a0<em>Kiez<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Die Reeperbahn<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11248\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dsxycn\" aria-label=\"Reeperbahn Kiez Hamburg 1024x576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11248\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11248\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-1024x576.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Die Reeperbahn<\/em> (Image by Gunnar Wrobel at Flickr.com under license CC BY SA 2.0).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Die Reeperbahn\u00a0<\/em>is the main street of the\u00a0<em>Vergn\u00fcgungs-\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Rotlichtviertel <\/em>(amusement and red-light district) of Hamburg. There are <em>Diskos <\/em>(discos), <em>Kneipen <\/em>(bars) and <em>clubs <\/em>(clubs).\u00a0The district is famous around the world, which is why sometimes, <em>St. Pauli <\/em>is used as a <em>totum pro parte\u00a0<\/em>for the\u00a0<em>Reeperbahn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But what does\u00a0<em>Reeperbahn\u00a0<\/em>even mean? Where does that name come from?<\/p>\n<p><em>Reepe\u00a0<\/em>is an old word for\u00a0<em>Seil\u00a0<\/em>(rope &#8211; notice how <em>Reepe\u00a0<\/em>and rope are similar!). Hamburg has always been a\u00a0<em>Hafenstadt\u00a0<\/em>(harbor city) and the\u00a0<em>Seile\u00a0<\/em>for the\u00a0<em>Schiffe\u00a0<\/em>(ships) were made by hand. A lot of space was required for this, and the inner city was too full. So the\u00a0<em>Reepschl\u00e4ger\u00a0<\/em>(ropemakers) took to the Hamburger Berg, as St. Pauli was known in the 17th century. The\u00a0<em>Querstra\u00dfe\u00a0<\/em>(crossroad)\u00a0<em>Seilerstra\u00dfe\u00a0<\/em>still reminds of this practice, too.<\/p>\n<p>Later, this\u00a0<em>Reeperbahn\u00a0<\/em>street became the home of other people that were not welcome within the walls of the city.\u00a0<em>Prostituierte\u00a0<\/em>(prostitutes) and\u00a0<em>Gl\u00fccksspieler <\/em>(gamblers) made their way to St. Pauli, and that is how the modern-day <em>Reeperbahn\u00a0<\/em>began.<\/p>\n<p>And the name\u00a0<em>St. Pauli<\/em>? The\u00a0<em>Viertel\u00a0<\/em>was first known as Hamburger Berg, but this would change in the 1830s. In 1831, the\u00a0<em>Bewohner\u00a0<\/em>(residents) received the full <em>ha<\/em><em>mburger B\u00fcrgerrechte <\/em>(Hamburg citizen rights). In 1833, the name was changed to St. Pauli, referring to the church by the same name in the <em>Viertel<\/em>. Only in 1894, the\u00a0<em>Vorort\u00a0<\/em>(suburb) officially became a <em>Viertel\u00a0<\/em>of Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>And how did it earn the nickname <em>Kiez<\/em>?\u00a0<em>Kiez\u00a0<\/em>is Berlin slang for\u00a0<em>Viertel\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; but St. Pauli is in Hamburg. This actually goes back to a song from 1921, called\u00a0<em>Mignon vom Kiez\u00a0<\/em>by Friedrich Hollaender and Hermann Valentin. At the beginning of the 20th century, <em>Kiez <\/em>was used as a <em>sp\u00f6ttischer <\/em>(mocking) term for a <em>Viertel<\/em>, and since St. Pauli was home to rather unconventional people at the time, the term <em>Kiez <\/em>really established itself. Listen to a cover of <em>Mignon vom Kiez <\/em>here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mignon vom Kiez\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFWgLtt-chg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you wanna know more about it? A simple search will find you all kinds of stories. Such as this documentary:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Die Reeperbahn - Deutschlands bekannteste Am\u00fcsiermeile | Doku\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzK_GK3qs1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you been to the\u00a0<em>Reeperbahn\u00a0<\/em>before? Is there a famous district like this in your country? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-350x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Reeperbahn-Kiez-Hamburg.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>St. Pauli. You may have heard of this Stadtteil (district) in Hamburg. It is ber\u00fcchtigt\u00a0(infamous) and known all over Germany. But why? What&#8217;s so special about St. Pauli? FC St. Pauli The first reason is the\u00a0Fu\u00dfballverein\u00a0(football club)\u00a0FC St. Pauli that&#8217;s from this\u00a0Stadtteil. While the name suggests that this is a\u00a0Fu\u00dfballverein\u00a0only, it is much more. 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