Mönckebergstraße
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The Mönckebergstraße is one of the main shopping streets in Hamburg
, Germany
. It is named after Johann Georg Mönckeberg, mayor of Hamburg in the 1890s and 1900s.
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is named after Johann Georg Mönckeberg, mayor of Hamburg in the 1890s and 1900s.