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A street called the fire’s end
Hamburg’s great fire began in May 1842. After three days and nights, a change in wind and the remaining old city walls helped stop it. The location is remembered in the street name Brandsende, meaning fire’s end.
An ordinary-looking map label can preserve a major event in a city’s past.
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