#Scheneberg

[greenbagjosh]

19 June 1997 - new shoes at Scheneberg Stadtzentrum - hail at Lurup - St Pauli sign - view of the Alster - strange U Bahn complex at Hbf - shopping at real,- - ferry ride and bowling alley across the Elbe

Saturday 19 June 1997

Guten Tag! Today 25 years ago is the second day of the Hamburg visit.  Today we will visit the immediate western section of Schleswig-Holstein at Schenefeld, return to Hamburg through Lurup, explore the Harvestehude and Außenalster, do some shopping at Real,- near Berliner Tor, and visit the Lower Saxony village of Buxtehude, before returning under the Elbe tunnel at Altona Station.

I woke up about 7 AM, took a shower, and had breakfast in the hostel.  I had some bread, cheese, sliced meat and coffee.  After breakfast, I left the hostel, boarded the S Bahn to Altona, and took the train to Pinneberg.  At Pinneberg, I had to take a bus to the Scheneberg mall, that was headed to the Lurup district.  My shoes were in very bad shape and needed replacement.  At the Scheneberg mall, I found a shoe store that was selling sneakers for about 25 D-Mark on sale, so I bought them.  I had to throw the old tennis shoes in the trash.  They could no longer be recycled.

On the bus back to Hamburg, along Altonaer Chausee, riding bus 184, it started to rain heavily to the point that hail fell down.  I managed to take a photo of the hail.  A C-class Benz was being pelted at the time.  The bus arrived at Altona, and I transferred to a S1 train.  I wanted to see a part of the Reeperbahn, as it had a bad reputation but I was curious about it anyway.  St. Pauli is not exactly the most wholesome part of Hamburg.  Then again there are parts of Frankfurt am Main, particularly the Bahnhofviertel along Kaiserstraße, and the Schillerstraße in Munich.  I was able to see the district boundary signs for St. Pauli and Altona.

After I left St. Pauli, I took the S Bahn to Jungfernstieg, and a U1 to Hallerstraße.  I walked the entire length of Magdalenenstraße to Alte Rabenstraße and on to the Rabenstraße ferry port along Harvestehuder Weg where it became Alsterufer.  The Alster is a lovely lake, it is mostly fresh water.  A beer shandy drink is named after the Alster, named Alsterwasser.  It is basically the same as Radler as sold in Southern Germany, namely lemon soda and beer.  

I boarded the U1 at Dammtor, and rode it to Hauptbahnhof.  When I exited Hauptbahnhof, I notidced that there are two U Bahn stations at Hauptbahnhof, one for the north and the other for the south.  The north U Bahn station has only two tracks, and at the time it was used for the U3 to Mümmelmannsberg to Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, but now it is used for the U2 from Niendorf Nord to Mümmelmansberg.  The south U Bahn station is used by two lines, at the time the U1 and U2, now U1 and U3, but only the inner tracks are used.  The outer tracks do not have either rails or the live third rail, let alone even any ballast stones or ties.  Hamburg has made do for the last 60 years or so.  At Hbf I wanted to find the schedule for trains going to Flensburg.  Flensburg is the city in Germany, where motorist data is stored.  But also it is a city where there is the border with Denmark.  I wanted to be sure that I could get a train back in time for the Marlboro City Park party and make it back to the railway station in time to catch the ICE train back home to Munich, namely the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

I needed to buy some groceries.  I took the S Bahn to Berliner Tor.  Berliner Tor S Bahn station is a subsurface station.  Berliner Tor has a U Bahn station as well.  I found a nearby real,- that at some stage was a SUMA store.  It was similar to the one that I remember from Europa Einkaufszentrum in Munich.  I bought some meat, cheese, bread, and a few cans of soda.  On the loudspeaker was "Having my baby" by the original singer Paul Anka, as opposed to Poppa Doq from Belgium who released that in 1993, the latter of which I was more familiar with.  

It was about 3:55 PM when I left the store.  It was getting dark because of the clouds.  It would soon rain.  I chose to take the U Bahn to Landungsbrücken.  I took the U3 the entire journey.  The Berliner Tor U Bahn station has two platforms, two outer tracks and two inner tracks.  The ceilings are high enough for the trains, but not high enough to support a catenery ovehead wire setup.  The U3 ran underground until Rathaus, and ran elevated from Rödingsmarkt to Landungsbrücken, including a stop at Baumwall.  I exited at Landungsbrücken and went to the hostel to leave my shopping items at the hostel.  I think it was about 7 PM.  Then I went to the ferry port to watch the boats come in and out along the Elbe.  There even was an organ grinder playing his organ.  I ordered a salmon sandwich in the meantime.  

I boarded a boat for Steinwerder the other side of the Elbe, as my 2-day ticket included a ferry ride along with the U Bahn, S Bahn and bus.  I found a restaurant near the Finkenwerder airport, code XFW, that was serving food and had a bowling alley in the basement.  I ate there and then took the bus that went under the Elbe by tunnel, and ended up at Hamburg Altona.  

One last adventure before returning, was taking the S Bahn to Eidelstedt and transferring to the A1.  I took it as far as Bönningstedt.  That was outside of the official fare zone for Hamburg, so I had to buy an extra ticket to be legal.  The A1 is a diesel route as there is no electrification from Eidelstedt to Ulzburg Süd.  

I took the S Bahn to Landungsbrücken, then went to bed.  I would have to wake up by 6 AM in order to catch the Interregio train to Flensburg.  

Tomorrow I will take the train to Flensburg, attempt to cross into Denmark and finally give up, but come back and see a car show with the Borgward P100 and other classic cars, take the train back to Hamburg, go to the Marlboro Dance Party at Stadtpark, get back to the train station to take the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ICE train back to Munich and get home by 11:45 PM and make it back to work Monday morning about 8 AM.  Hope you will join me then!  

Auf wiedersehen!