BallinStadt was a village - complete with hospital, church, music hall, housing, hotels - created to handle the nearly 2 million immigrants who passed through the port in the first 34 years of the last century - a transit village, not intended for permanent occupancy. An emigration museum in the 1901 complex built by the HAPAG shipping line chronicles the history. Its research center helps families track down when ancestors sailed and on what ships.

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