Contact Admin. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife the other being Sternschanze and also the city's major red-light district. Therefore, the ropewalks "had to be relocated outside the city walls on the country road leading toward Altona — which later took on the street name 'Reperbahn'.
The street is lined with restaurants , night clubs , discotheques and bars. There are also strip clubs , sex shops , brothels and similar businesses. There are other theatres at the Reeperbahn St. Since the s, there have been signs saying that entrance to the street is prohibited for women and juveniles; however, it is a public road which anyone may enter.
In former years, several sex theatres here Salambo , Regina , Colibri , Safari would show live sex acts on stage ; as of [update] , until its closure in , the Safari was the only live sex theatre left in Germany.
Hotel Luxor , Hamburg's oldest brothel that had operated on this street for 60 years, was closed in ; [3] the street's name comes from the fact that Catholics were allowed to practise their religion here at a time when this district did not yet belong to Hamburg; they were forbidden from doing so in Protestant Hamburg proper.
In , Europe's largest brothel at the time, the six-floor Eros Center , was opened on the Reeperbahn, it was closed in the late s amidst the AIDS scare. At a major trial during and ten members of the "Marek Gang", which controls brothels on and near the Reeperbahn, were charged with pimping ; the judge rejected the charge of forming a criminal gang and handed out suspended sentences: Because of the problems with the high crime rate , in the Senate of Hamburg enacted a ban on weapons in the Reeperbahn area; the only other such area with a weapons ban in Hamburg is the Hansaplatz , St.
