Hamburg’s colonnaded, Renaissance Revival Handelskammer, or Chamber of Commerce, embodies the city’s civic ethos and its centuries-old provenance as a Hanseatic trading center. Dating from 1841 and situated adjacent to an imposing Rathaus (city hall), the Chamber of Commerce is where the city’s power players orchestrated Hamburg’s modern-day rise to global shipping and maritime prominence. Yet officials of the forward-thinking organization realized they needed to update their otherwise staid commercial image. So when the city’s stock market went electronic and moved out of one of the building’s three commodious halls at the end of 2002, they decided to bring in new energy by adding a start-up-business assistance center, a business club, meeting rooms, and an area to display historic artifacts from the oldest commercial library in the world, which is housed in the building’s recesses.
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