Google translation : On Geesthang in Altona presents an impressive panoramic view of most of the container port , the Köhlbrandbrücke and the old port terminal. The viewpoint is affectionately called Altona balcony and is probably the largest balcony of the City of Hamburg. It belongs to the green connection extending along the Elbe . The observation deck is located on the Palmaille , a road extending along the Elbhangs . The park, with its landscaped deck is a popular destination for visitors to Hamburg and Hamburg. He is a link between the River Elbe Trail , the fish market and the green belt New -Altona . In its immediate vicinity are stately homes and mansions from the 18th series to 20 Century together. Similarly, in the immediate night ready cash is the Altona Town Hall . Popular with children is framed by sandstone animals playground . In the panorama you see the bronze sculpture by Gerhard Maritim fire from the copper -driven here in 1965 found your place . The sculptor Gerhard Brandes was born in 1923 in Frankfurt on the Oder , and died in 2013 in Great Flottbeck in Hamburg. He studied first in Berlin and later as a master student in Vienna. From 1949 he studied with Edwin Scharff and Gerhard Marcks at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg . From 1976 to Brandes was a lecturer at the College of Design in Hamburg. Lived up to his ninetieth birthday and the artist worked in Hamburg, where there are numerous of his works in public space.
