Neighborhood highlights
We can't describe the neighborhood of our apartment better than this article in the world:
“Jill Sander, you need to know, isn't just a pioneer in fashion. It is also one of those who made Pöseldorf chic in the seventies. Here, in the Milky Way, she opened her first shop in 1968. He was painted black from the outside, the arrivals told her that that's not possible. So she replied, "The business is also dark grey.“ And it still looks almost like it was back in the day. As for so many, 1968 was full of promises for Jil Sander, full of beginning. Less political – but she noticed that there was a lot to learn and discover that as a modern woman she would be able to implement her vision of fashion.
The creatives moved away, today students are coming
They were all here at the time. In Jil Sanders corner, the "Pöseldorfer Bierstuben" became a meeting point – which sounds like a loutonic drink was set up like an English pub that drew. Gunter Sachs bought art from a US artist named Andy Warhol, whom no one really knew. But Sachs hit a Pöseldorf gallery. And made a fortune later. New and old money came together here. Young and old, mini owners and Rolls riders. But at some point, the new ones took over, the creatives moved more to Eppendorf or to the ski jump.
But now Pöseldorf has woken up again, there is a new beginning. Watching, Pöseldorf kissed a new generation, whose parents were already carrying out their dogs here. And also from the students who are trained at Hamburg's Mozarteum. "Young, well-trained and families with a level move back here," says Maurits van Heyst, owner of the men's workshop Barons & B******s. And continues: “Pöseldorf has been around for 175 years. That's why you can't talk about a comeback. However, it's hotter here again than it was a few years ago.”
The village in the big city
Certainly some of the city's investments have contributed to this. Houses have been renovated, elaborate new buildings approved. All of this adds to the revitalization. Still, it's also the mix of cafes, restaurants, and bars that make the neighborhood so attractive. The trendy "Sushibar X" offers excellent food and is what you call an It-Place for the Nouveau Riche in the third millennium. In the "Club du Nord", colleagues celebrate after work – and in the "chicken cellar", everyone feels well taken care of.
Shops like "Barons & B******s" have a reputation beyond the "town border" and reflect fashionably exactly what the area stands for. Brioni can be bought here in the same way as casual bracelets or motorcycle helmets, which are usually more likely to be found in concept stores like Colette in Paris. So it's mixed again. And the older generation, who is just as part of the scene, can buy one or the other chandelier in the exclusive antique shops.
“The unique location of a village in the middle of a big city is something very special,” says Van Heyst, his voice has a rabant undertone. “But the certain togetherness is especially beautiful. You know each other, snack with the residents, and help each other. You just can't find anything like this in other parts of the city.“ You can hear it and believeit.
The Edeka in the Bausünde Pöseldorf Center, which is so ugly that it almost comes across cool again, an upscale contact exchange. Here the families shop together on Saturdays, single men are found on the organic yogurt shelf, and business men in Hanseatic beige make deals at the fresh counter. A spectacle that illustrates the soul of this city like hardly anything else. In the middle of it, a five-year-old explains that she would like to go "upstairs" again on the weekend, as she actually prefers to go to her friend Marie's birthday for children's birthday. "Up," as much is explained by foreigners, always means in Pöseldorf: Hamburg's suburb of Sylt.
Whether "in" or "out" – a place survives all trend phases: the "Zwick". If the term "cult" had not been so terribly disturbed, it would apply to this corner pub. “The ‘Zwick‘ is a pristine rock that has always been the way it was in the sixties and seventies,” says Uli Salm, the managing director. “It belongs to Pöseldorf such as Jil Sander and the St. Johannis Church.“ The rock music is loud, when things go well, the air is up – but that doesn't matter, the danger of fainting and overturning is not there because it's way too tight.
Hugh Grant drank at Zwick
“The secret of the ‘Zwick‘ is,” says a regular from Altona, “that everything here is so small and cozy that you automatically get into a conversation with everyone and spend a great evening together!“Salm also notes that more and more "new arrivals" from other corners of the city are merging under the "old rabbits". “Especially many young scene singers, who are too aggressive in the neighborhood, like to go out in Pöseldorf. The more gastronomy settles, the more everything grows and thrives.”
You can believe Salm that he has already experienced everything in the "Zwick". Hugh Grant washed down his frustration here in 2010 after the defeat of his FC Fulham in the UEFA Cup final and eventually started a competition in arm-pressing (this result is not handed down). Otto Waalkes rocked on the tables just like the singer Pink. And even the quiet Jogi Löw celebrated the mastered qualification for the World Cup in South Africa on the Mittelweg.
But the "Zwick" makers are particularly proud of something else: "In some cases, four generations of people have come to us. Sometimes grandpa, dad, mom, and the kids rock out together. That's very fun!“ Funny for sure. Above all, this is pretty much Hamburg 13 – just where life starts again and again for everyone.”
