Google translation : With its stunning white facade of the building looks like an Opera or even like a castle . The building was built in 1844 in the classical style designed by Oskar Winkler. Originally it served as the Baltic railway station which ran between Altona and Kiel. Altona was then the second largest city in the Danish state . You Headquartered at that time very many wealthy people , royal officials , wealthy merchants , nobles , and members of the City Council. Of which still bear witness to the mighty mansions along the adjacent magnificent avenues and Elbchausee Palmaille . In the following decades, Altona developed very well . It was necessary to build more tracks and platforms . But these had no place on the site of his time . In the years 1893 to 1898 they built a new station at a better location . The old station was in 1891 and has gradually acquired its present appearance. Designed by the city architect Joseph Emil Brix and the city architect 1896-1898 fire was modeled after a baroque castle this magnificent four-winged building . The pediment which is guarded as Altona boat in a stormy sea of a guardian angel is by Ernst Barlach and Carl Garber . The south side still shows the classical embossed arrival hall of the former station . Today, the registry office is located which is very popular with young couples because of its exclusive location at Altona balcony. The Berlin artist Gustav Eberlein created in 1898 by the statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I , it is the first German Emperor and the time in which Prussia control of Schleswig-Holstein and thus also took over Altona . It is located on the northern front of the building . Today it is the seat of the District Assembly and the District Office Altona .
