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Eckendorferstraße 29, east of center and about 200m before Hallenstraße
The local slang names for the area include apparently "Gurke", "Eierberg" and "Riemenwalzwerk".
• Photos
• A report by a sex worker on the Laufhaus Bochum
How to Get There : from the Rathaus, go along Willy-Brandt-Platz and you will see Bochum West railway station ahead. Don't go as far as the station but turn right and then next left onto Gussstahlstraße. Bochum West (on the line between Bochum and Gelsenkirchen) does actually have an entrance directly onto Gussstahlstraße.
A casting German is an 'adult' film which shows some 'sites' of Bochum
Eros Center, Immenburg Straße 17 - 21
(corner of Karlstraße)
The city has set up 'Verrichungsboxen' on the Immenburg Straße for use by street prostitutes. Cars are parked up in a secured environment. (These street prostitutes are taxed by way of a daily ticket that they must buy from automatic dispensers)
How to Get There : exit from the railway station by the Nordausgang, turn right, and then just before you come to crossroads you can see the Linienstraße partly blocked off on your left. Cars can also be driven in from the other end.
Formerly, there was large-scale street prostitution in the Ravensberger Straße which is now forbidden (since 2011). It had been set up just after 2000 with good illumination and with an office of a Catholic social service on-site. There were Verrichtungsboxen, where the friver could not open the door because of the adjacent wall but the passenger could.
It started off with about 60 sex workers but that then swelled to 700. And criminal activity increased, including shootings, in an area close by residential property. However it does appear to be continuing in some form according to newspaper reports from 2021.
• Photos of Ravensberger Straße.
There are several walk-in brothels on Vulkanstraße, and the trade has now extended around the corner to Julius-Weber Straße and Charlottenstraße. However a former Laufhaus at the top of Charlottenstrasse is now a Bed and Breakfast - see Bed and Breakfast 33. There are also now locations where you can buy food which was not always so. Although way back, Charlottenstrasse was occupied by several decent bars.
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How to Get There : Vulkanstraße lies South-West of the city center. A good pointer is the tall chimney of the Duisburg Stadtwerke power station. As you can see from the picture, this tower is certainly visible from the Schwanentor Bridge over the Inner Harbor.
Newspaper articles on the Vulkanstraße
Monning on the border between Duisburg and Mühlheim, near the Zoo. Zooparkplatz.
This is an advertising placard in the city
Magnum Sauna,
Heinrich-Hertz-Straße 24, 40699 Erkrath,
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Located in a discreet cul-de-sac called Stahlstraße (cars can also be driven in).
How to Get There : It lies on the north-west edge of the city center, behind the Arbeitsamt on Berliner Platz. The U-Bahn has a station on Berliner Platz, from where you can go down either side of the Arbeitsamt. To the right side, you go down Segerothstraße with the former railway bridge before you and the new University quarter to your right - take the next left. Alternatively, start from the Limbecker Center on the southern edge of the Berliner Platz.
• Background information on the Segeroth area
• Photos
A former Kirmes area has been converted into a drive-in area, complete with a number of Verrichungsboxes. Gladbecker Strasse.
see this link
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Bickernstrasse, adjacent to Kanalstrasse. This often produces controversy from nearby residents, so I don't know the current situation
How to Get There : From railway station, go straight ahead, right along the main shopping street until the Markischer Ring. Turn left, then right with the river on your right-hand side. The Dueppenbeckerstraße is the second on the left, angled backwards
The Eros Center was closed in 2011 but I believe is now open again - see Eroscenter Hamm
How to Get There :
Gallberger Weg, south of the town center, off Alleestraße or Richard-Wagner-Straße. By foot, you could follow the railway line southwards (eventually you follow an unfenced section of the railway) and turn off on Klutestraße. Gallberger Weg does meet the railway further south, although it is only a footpath at this point. The nearby zoo is a good landmark.
Pascha was declared bankrupt during the pandemic, but it is open again - offering a hotel as an added attraction
Pascha claims to be the largest brothel in the whole of Europe.
You have to pay 5 Euros entrance fee.
How to Get There : Location is Hornstraße. Take the S-Bahn to Nippes and Pascha is visible from the train - see photo, taken from Nippes station, where it is the building to the right of the clock.
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Eros Center,
Mevissenstraße 70
• There has recently been questions asked about how the Eros Center came into being, with implications of corruption.
Rampenloch, a cul-de-sac to the West of the town center.
• Background information here
Kuenkelstr. 54 (probably defunct)
Flasshofstraße, a fenced-off area of the said street, including a
'Laufhaus'. See this website.
• Photos
Adjoining the area is the Erlebniskino 2 (cinema)
• Remembering the beginnings of the red light district in 1963
This short video gives a few brief glimpses of the street. Otherwise it does not show a great deal, not too sure what its exact purpose is.
These two videos were filmed during the 50th anniversary celebrations
How to Get There: from the main railway station, turn right and follow the railway line as much as possible. You need Hermann-Albertz Straße which is the road parallel to (and immediately after) Markstraße, the main shopping street. Flasshofstraße is a side street close to the railway bridge on Hermann-Albertz Straße. Alternatively, the 143 bus travels alongs Grenzstraße on the other side of Flasshofstraße, on its journey between Essen-Borbeck and Obermeiderich railway stations (via Oberhausen Hbf.).
Wesendonkstraße 16-18 (corner Hofaue).
Very close to the Schwebebahn (overhead monorail). Was thought to be defunct but now appears to be operating again.
Antoniusstraße, about 150m distant from the Rathaus. Background
information here
Bielefeld
Bochum
Im Winkel, off Gussstahlstraße. The RoteHaus Laufhaus stands on the corner at the beginning of the street and another Laufhaus lies at the other end.
The image at left shows Gussstahlstraße - im Winkel is off to the right further along - a fairly large sex shop is just to the left. A plan of 'im Winkel'
is shown below.
Bonn
Dortmund
Linienstraße, a partly blocked off street close to the railway station. More information on this website.
Duisburg
Lust Meile
Vulkanhaus
Laufhaus.
Sexxx Palace.
Düsseldorf
Hinter dem Bahndamm. The place consists of a five-storey building with each window numbered. This obviously creates problems for windows that are higher up. Seems not be a well-thought of place for general quality. The view to the left is from the railway line, South of the Central Station.
How to Get There : It is directly next to the railway line, south of the main station. Best way on foot is to go south from the railway station. If you exit from the main entrance, then you will need to go along the Hartkortstraße and pass under the railway line via Ellerstraße. From the eastern end of this bridge, you follow the railway line further along Vulkanstraße. Go along as far as it will go and then turn right.
Essen
Gelsenkirchen
Munsterstrasse
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Hagen
Small blocked off street, the Dueppenbeckerstraße
Hamm
Köln
In the photo to the left taken at Nippes station, Pascha appears in the distance - to the right of the clock.
There is also another brothel directly opposite - the Eros Center Köln
Krefeld
Minden
Mönchengladbach
Mühlheim
Oberhausen
Paderborn
Wuppertal
