Great fire of Hamburg
1842 fire in the German city-state of Hamburg / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1842 fire. For the 1943 Hamburg firestorm, known as Operation Gomorrah, see Bombing of Hamburg in World War II.
The Great fire of Hamburg began early on May 5, 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of May 8, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and several important public buildings, necessitating major civic rebuilding and prompting infrastructure improvements. The heavy demand on insurance companies led to the establishment of reinsurance.