[2][3][4] The prostitutes were registered and a police station was set up at the entrance to the street to avoid pimping.

Under the "female controls" police ordinance, prostitutes were prohibited from speaking to men or attracting them outside the street; they were not allowed to visit theatres or museums, to keep dogs or cats and not even to enter the parks on Wallgraben or the Bürgerpark.

[1] The prostitutes were also not permitted to leave their houses after dark, travel in open carriages or public vehicles, live with a man, dine with each other or socialise outside the street.

[5][6] Despite the strict regulations, there were protests against the establishment of Helenenstraße; as early as 1879, a petition with 2,200 signatures against this facility was submitted, but this did not lead to any change.

The Senate even made a wooden model of Helenenstraße and presented it at international health fairs in Paris, New York and Moscow.

[7] Under pressure from the women's movement, communist and social democratic deputies,[1] the Senate prohibited prostitution in the street in October that year.

During the Second World War the street suffered considerable bomb damage by British air raids.