Gänsemarkt

Geese Market) is a public square in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Neustadt quarter.

The triangular urban square is accessible by streets of Jungfernstieg from the east, Dammtorstraße and Valentinskamp in the north west and ABC-Straße in the south.

[1] Today, the Hamburg State Opera is located a few metres north at Dammtorstraße.

[2] The Ufa-Palast, with a capacity of 2,667 once Europe's largest cinema, opened in December 1929 inside the building of Deutschlandhaus [de].

The capacity of the cinema, which was damaged during World War II and later re-built at the northern edge of the Gänsemarkt square, had been risen to 3,200 in the 1980s.