Editing Reeperbahn (section)

==Name and history==
The [[street name|name]] ''Reeperbahn'' means [[ropewalk]], which is a place where ropes are made ({{langx|nds|Reep}} = rope, the standard German word is {{lang|de|Seil}}; {{lang|nds|Bahn}} = track). Until the 1620s Hamburg's ropewalks had been located in the [[Neustadt, Hamburg|Neustadt]] (New Town) quarter of the inner city close to the [[Elbe]], which then became a densely built up area. Therefore, the ropewalks "had to be relocated outside the city walls on the country road leading toward [[Altona, Hamburg|Altona]] – which later took on the street name 'Reperbahn'."<ref>Rainer Postel, "Hamburg at the Time of the Peace of Westphalia", in: ''1648, War and Peace in Europe'': 3 vols., Klaus Bussmann and Heinz Schilling (eds.), Münster in Westphalia: Veranstaltungsgesellschaft 350 Jahre Westfälischer Friede, 1998, (=Catalogue for the exhibition «1648: War and Peace in Europe» 24 October 1998 – 17 January 1999 in Münster in Westphalia and Osnabrück), vol.&nbsp;1: ''Politics, Religion, Law, and Society'', pp.&nbsp;337–343, here p.&nbsp;340. {{ISBN|3-88789-128-7}}.</ref> The street was a ropewalk in the 17th and 18th centuries.