ERSTELLT The historical backdrop of Jungfernstieg starts in 1235. Around then, Count Adolph IV of Holstein dispatched the development of a plant dam, so as to utilize the Alster's water for a neighborhood corn factory. The subsequent plant lake turned out a lot bigger than anticipated, as it arrived at measurements of an inside and out lake. It caused a fight in court, with respect to who needed to pay for the lost land, yet it likewise gave land for a city extension in the rear of the dam: Hamburg's Neustadt (new town). The bank along the recently made Lake Binnenalster was named Reesendamm, to pay tribute to mill operator Heinrich Reese, who at the time worked the factory.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth century Reesendamm was improved and augmented a few times. In 1665 a line of linden trees were planted along the water front. With Hamburg's developing universal ocean exchange and the city's status as a sovereign city-express, the rich promenade got a cosmopolitan viewpoint and got well known for walks around the lake front. Hanseaten went with their unmarried girls out on a walk, searching for an appropriate husband, prompted the present name of the promenade: Jungfern (for example lady), Stieg (for example stair, walk). In 1799 the main Alster Pavilion (Alster Pavilion) was opened; it housed a bistro and an eatery and - as indicated by design - has been supplanted multiple times until today. In 1838 Jungfernstieg turned into Germany's first road to be asphalted.