Famous "Green Bunker" in Hamburg: opening later this year
Created: 05/24/2022Updated: 05/24/2022, 12:50 p.m
By: Kevin Goonewardena
The opening of the controversial roof crown of the Feldstrasse bunker will take place later this year.
The hotel "Reverb by Hard Rock Hotel" could also open then.
Hamburg – For some time now, the cranes on the bunker in Feldstrasse, which can be seen from afar, have been part of the St. Pauli skyline.
But that could change soon.
Because the controversial increase of the 38 meter high former World War II bunker by a good third is to be completed this year, confirms Frank Schulze, spokesman for the bunker project.
According to a report by the Hamburger Abendblatt, the concert hall Georg Elser Halle, which is also to be integrated into the bunker, cannot be opened, also reports 24hamburg.de.
Official name: | Flak Tower IV |
Address: | Feldstrasse, 20359 Hamburg |
Built: | 1942 to 1944 (built by around 1000 Nazi forced laborers) |
Height: | 38 meters (after extension: 58 meters) |
Bunker in Hamburg: Renovation on Feldstraße - concert hall cannot open this year
Felix Mörl, spokesman for Uebel&Gefahrlich in the St. Pauli bunker on Feldstrasse, also knows exactly what is planned.
He gave the Abendblatt information about the status of the construction work and the opening of the Georg Elser Halle, as the concert hall in the bunker will be called.
Not least because of the corona pandemic in Hamburg and material supply bottlenecks, the concert hall will probably not be able to open until next year.
An exact date is still difficult to predict today.
When the addition and the hall are finished this year, we will then need a certain amount of time for our operational and structural set-up.
Felix Mörl to the Hamburger Abendblatt
The high-rise bunker on Feldstraße in May 2022 will be completed this year.
The Georg Elser Halle and the "Reverb by Hard Rock Hotel" could then also open.
© Jürgen Ritter/Imago
The Georg Elser Halle is to be operated by Wolf von Waldenfels after completion.
However, it is not known whether the opening of the "Reverb by Hard Rock Hotel" planned for the end of the year will also have to be postponed.
In March of this year, the opening for the end of 2022 was announced.
Concerts in the bunker on Feldstraße: Tocotronic's performance did not go as planned
The first concert in the new Georg-Elser-Halle should have been a performance by the legendary Hamburg school band Tocotronic two days before Christmas Eve 2022.
But that's not the case now.
Rick McPhail, the band's guitarist, had already hinted at this in conversation with the author of this text at a concert of his side project Hawel/McPhail last week.
One would look for an alternative, it is said.
Either the edel-Optics Arena in Inselpark Wilhelmsburg or the concert will be postponed to 2023.
The concert in the edel-Optics Arena was only moved from April to the Georg-Elser-Halle in December.
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Wolf von Waldenfels and Tino Hanekamp shaped Hamburg's club history
As early as the mid-1980s, von Wolf von Waldenfels opened the so-called Fun Club in the back room of the Eimer pub, later followed by the hip-hop club Powerhouse and the legendary techno clubs Phonodrome and Click in the empty C&A branch at Nobistor - today the site of the expansion of the local Helios Endos Clinic.
All of this can be read in Christoph Twick's (freelance journalist, Die Zeit) book "Läden, Schuppen, Kaschemmen - Eine Hamburger Popkulturgeschichte", which, however, is only available on the secondary market.
In 2006, Wolf von Waldenfels and the former operator of the world stage, Tino Hanekamp, opened the Uebel&Gefahrlich in the aforementioned bunker, and later the Golem at the Fischmarkt Hamburg.
Hanekamp's novel about the last night of the world stage became a bestseller under the title "Sowas von da" and was later filmed for the cinema.
St. Pauli bunker: Around 5000 plants on the roof - Olaf Scholz advocated the green bunker
According to media reports, around 5,000 plants will have been planted on the roof of the bunker after completion.
These include field maple, service pear, shrub Scots pine, ivy, hedges and roses.
This is reported by the Hamburger Abendblatt.
Today's Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and former First Mayor of the Hanseatic city was considered a supporter of the green bunker at the time, with a garden of around 7000 square meters.
30 million euros were initially planned as an investment sum for the extension and greening.
However, observers expect the original costs to at least double.
(Transparency note: The article originally said that the completion of the bunker conversion would be delayed again. However, this is not the case. We apologize for the mistake.)