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19-440: The Wallring follows the outline of Hamburg's old city wall, and was developed in the first half of the 19th century , when the defensive wall, the (Wallanlagen), was razed. The wall that defined the city's edge from the 1620s until the 1840s has had a strong impact on shaping the modern city. The Wallring park consists of several differently named sections, which — based on their common historical development — are characterized by

38-546: A certain unity, but also by a number of dissimilarities. It also offers the inner city's largest network of parks, and forms a sort of connection to Hamburg's green and open spaces along Elbe and Alster . Etymologically, "Wallring" is derived from the German word "Wall" for Hamburg's former fortifications. Semantically, the Wallring was originally associated with the parks, and with the parks' semi-circular unity in jeopardy,

57-672: A few structures placed within the park-like settings. Already in the 1840s, the circular park suffered setbacks by infringements caused by the Hamburg-Altona rail. Eventually Hamburg Hauptbahnhof was built from 1898 until 1906. In 1922 the Hamburg Museum opened in premises at Holstenwall. During the bombing in World War II, the Natural History Museum was destroyed in 1943. Following the war, many of

76-534: Is only 0.25 kilometers (0.16 mi) long, yet at 50 meters (160 ft) rather wide. It runs from Stephansplatz to the north-western corner of Binnenalster and was developed between 1827 and 1830 according to plans by Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786–1845). The neoclassical facades were inspired by London's Portland Place , the avenue's four lines of linden trees were modeled after Berlin's Unter den Linden . The shopping street of Colonnaden , leading to Jungfernstieg boulevard, ends here. Lombardsbrücke ( Lombard Bridge )

95-531: Is the name of the bridge crossing the Alster River at the location of the former Alster glacis , and also the name of the two feeders, built on the former glacis. The feeders are landscaped parks, transitioning between the two Alster lakes. The current Renaissance Revival bridge was designed by Johann Hermann Maack  [ de ] (1809–1868) as a three-bay stone arch bridge and completed between 1864 and 1868. A first bridge at this location dated from

114-629: The Laeiszhalle . Holstenwall is flanked by Große Wallanlagen. After passing Johannes-Brahms-Platz, the ring continues as Gorch-Fock-Wall, named after Hamburg-born poet Gorch Fock . It runs up to Stephansplatz , an important junction with Dammtorstraße. It is flanked by the Kleine Wallanlagen and the Old Botanical Garden ( Alter Botanischer Garten ). The Esplanade ( German pronunciation: [ˌɛsplaˈnaːdə] )

133-956: The Neustadt of Hamburg , Germany and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Philharmoniker Hamburg . The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz , founder of the concert venue. The Baroque Revival Laeiszhalle was planned by the architect Martin Haller and inaugurated at its location on the Hamburg Wallring on 4 June 1908. At that time, the Musikhalle was Germany's largest and most modern concert hall. Composers such as Richard Strauss , Sergei Prokofiev , Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith played and conducted their works in

152-408: The history of the city of Hamburg , Germany. 53°33′55″N 10°00′05″E  /  53.565278°N 10.001389°E  / 53.565278; 10.001389 Laeiszhalle 53°33′21″N 9°58′51″E  /  53.55583°N 9.98083°E  / 53.55583; 9.98083 The Laeiszhalle ( German: [ˈlaɪsˌhalə] ), formerly Musikhalle , is a concert hall in

171-573: The 1960s the musical repertoire was also expanded to jazz and pop music, with performances by Pink Floyd , Kraftwerk , Grateful Dead , Lale Andersen , Bee Gees , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Udo Jürgens and Elton John . The Laeizhalle has two separate performance spaces. Due to its relatively low capacity and stage layout, the Laeiszhalle is particularly suitable for the performance of classical and early romantic repertoire, and less so for staging large-scale twentieth-century works. The management of both

190-689: The 1960s, most of the traffic on the eastern Wallring is diverted through the Wallringtunnel. The outer perimeter of Glockengießerwall is home of the Renaissance Revival Kunsthalle , completed in 1869, and the Postmodern Galerie der Gegenwart , completed in 1997. At Steintorwall, the Walling passes Hamburg Hauptbahnhof on the outer perimeter and shopping streets Spitalerstraße and Mönckebergstraße on

209-494: The Laeiszhalle. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz gave one of his first international performances in 1926; violinist Yehudi Menuhin gave a guest performance in 1930 at the age of twelve. Following World War II, which it survived intact, the Laeiszhalle experienced an intermezzo when the British occupying forces used the space temporarily as a broadcast studio for their radio station BFN. Maria Callas gave concerts in 1959 and 1962. In

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228-539: The Wallring is being differentiated as Westlicher (Western) and Östlicher (Eastern) Wallring. While the western Wallring has a continuous park front, the eastern Wallring is marked by traffic infrastructure. Regardless of the terminology for the ring road as a whole, its individual sections have proper street names . The Wallring follows the course of Hamburg's former Wallanlagen (ramparts) developed by Dutch military engineer Johan van Valckenburgh between 1616 and 1625. Former city gates were Millerntor and Dammtor on

247-544: The former defensive ditches were filled with rubble. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Esplanade lost most of its northern building ensemble. Today, the western parks resembles the design of the International Garden Exhibitions (IGA) of 1963 and 1973 . parts of the eastern Wallring are tunneled by the so-called Wallring Tunnel, built between 1963 and 1966. The Wallring consists of

266-400: The inner perimeter. Klosterwall is the Wallring's last section before terminating at Zollkanal. Klosterwall passes Georgsplatz and Deichtorplatz. Both eastern and western Wallring are lined with landmarks, museums and cultural institutions. [REDACTED] Media related to Ring 1 (Hamburg) at Wikimedia Commons Timeline of Hamburg#19th century The following is a timeline of

285-426: The meaning shifted to the nonetheless continuous ring road. The parks alone are otherwise also referred to as Wallanlagen or Grüner Ring . The ring road, a succession of roads, is also referred to as Inner Ring or just Ring . The department of transportation's official designation is Ring 1 ( German : Ring Eins ) in reference to subsequent ring roads Ring 2 and Ring 3 further out. For its heterogeneous quality,

304-564: The mid 17th century. On the bridge, the view opens up wide onto the Binnenalster , historically the Hanseatic city's " state parlour ". The eastern Wallring is part of Hamburg's "Museum Mile" ( Museumsmeile ), being home to some of the city's largest art museums. Despite this concentration of art, its outer perimeter is lacking the ring road's overriding underlying concept of a unified spatial perception and subject to redevelopment. Since

323-537: The outer glacis were subsequently remodeled into a park by German landscape architect Isaak Altmann (1777–1837). During the 1860s, the Wallring was developed as a boulevard, with a number of representative buildings lining the inner side – among those new structures for the Kunsthalle (1869), the Oberpostdirektion (1887) and the Natural History Museum (1891) – the outer side remained unbuilt apart from

342-540: The western and eastern Wallring, separated from each other by Lombard Bridge. The park continues along the bridge's feeders, while the bridge also marks the border between Neustadt and Altstadt. Geographically, the Wallring starts at Stintfang on the Elbe shore. Traffic-wise, the Wallring starts at Millerntordamm, off Millerntorplatz. Holstenwall, the Wallring's first section, runs up to Johannes-Brahms-Platz, named after Hamburg-born composer Johannes Brahms , and location of

361-567: The western and north-western side, Steintor on the eastern side, and Sandtor and Brooktor near the Elbe . Later additional gates were created, including Hafentor, Holstentor, Klostertor and Deichtor. The locations of all gates are still known as minor localities or zones of Hamburg. By the early 19th century, the ramparts were outdated and rendered useless against foreign attacks. In 1806, Napoleon had no resistance when capturing Hamburg. The fortifications were ultimately removed between 1820 and 1837,

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