Hamburg – Circus Busch / Schilleroper

In August 1889, the up-and-coming circus operator Paul Busch applies to the city of Altona, which did not yet belong to Hamburg, to build a “circus with stable buildings and a restoration/café-bar”. Permission is granted and the result is a dodecagonal gyro made of steel and corrugated iron. The main building measures thirty meters in […]

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