Cremon

Cremon is the name of a street in Hamburg's Old and originally referred to a march island at the mouth of the river Alster in the Elbe. The origin of the name is unclear but may it goes back to a ehemeligen residents. The street name has existed since at least 1251 as Cremun, 1289 he is listed in a document as platea Crymon.

The Cremon Island comprised about the area of ​​today's roads Cremon, Catherine Street, Catherine Fleet, Steckelhörn and The Mühren and became in 1188 the first settlers in what was then New Town ( not to be confused with the present-day district of Hamburg -Neustadt! ) As grazing area outside the city walls assigned. Around the houses, a ring dike was built; the country was divided into narrow, deep plots, which developed the typical Althamburger Mansion. Each plot had access to the main drain of the Alster in the same, the later Nikolaifleet. Behind the houses built in the Middle Ages the Katharinenfleet, but this was filled in after the Second World War in 1946 as well as the Steckelhörnfleet that separated the Cremoninsel from the neighboring island Grimm.

Cremon 1246 came directly to the city of Hamburg, and together with the fierceness of the parish the newly built St. Catherine's Church.

In 1937, the Cremon who had the Fire of Hamburg survived from 1842 and nearly one hundred years of urban renewal should be obtained as a Hanseatic tradition island. First restoration work began in 1937, but the air raid on Hamburg in 1943 fell victim to the whole area. Today there are between road and Fleet, Cremon 33 to 36 formerly outside the dike, the last old historic warehouse from the 18th and early 19th century.

From the house Cremon 28, a former warehouse, a tympanum is located on the north facade of the Museum of Hamburg History. On the tympanum is the head of Mercury, which is also a god of trade, which is due to the economic use of the former building. The store was built in 1789 by architect PJ Witt Greff, of which probably dates also the tympanum.

Tympanum with Mercury Head of the House Cremon 28