Stadthausbrücke

In the centre of Hamburg there is a street named %26#39;Stadthausbrücke%26#39;. There is also an S-Bahn station on this road with the same name. The literal English translation of %26#39;Stadthausbrücke%26#39; is %26#39;city house bridge%26#39;.

What exactly is the %26#39;city house%26#39;? I don%26#39;t think it is a reference to the city hall, as this is of course known in German as %26#39;Rathaus%26#39;, and as I walked through the street I could not see any building denoted as the %26#39;Stadthaus%26#39;.

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dict.leo.org says Stadthaus = townhouse

There is no real fix defination.

A Stadthaus can be a town hall

www.mobil-potsdam.de/s_stadthaus_62.htm

or another public building

mannheim.de/io2/…20N1

http://www.stadthaus.ulm.de/

or a hotel

http://www.das-stadthaus.de/index2.html

something older

hvbimmobilien.de/projekte/index_1000176.html

or less old

das-neue-dresden.de/stadthaus-dresden1923.ht…

or just a plan for the future

lbs.de/west/…lbs-stadthaus

or something you can buy %26quot;out of the box%26quot;

hausausstellung.de/Das-Stadthaus-Flair-124-I…

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If i%26#39;m not totally mistaken, the Stadthaus refers to the building which now harbours the Baubehörde, the turn of the century building on the corner of the Neuer Wall. Notorious, because it was once the Hamburg Gestapo HQ.

Cheers, Dieter