Hamburg. Alsterarkaden and Kleine Alster - Stock-Fotografie

The Alsterarkaden in Hamburg, named after the architectural concept arcade, go on designs by Alexis de Chateauneuf for the newly created City Hall market back after the destruction of the town hall by the Great Fire of 1842 a new building was planned. For the design of the town hall market at the mouth of the Fleet Alster, the Alsterfleet, a basin, the Alster was before the storage of the lock bridge. Chateauneuf designed for the west side of a round-arched arcades in the Italian style, the original painting was ocher for new findings, which should be plastered later white but has preserved this characteristic appearance until today.