BallinStadt - Emigrant camp shipping company HAPAG

The port city of Hamburg was one of the central port cities for emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. More than five million Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe from 1881 onwards. They fled from pogroms, miserable living conditions and restrictive laws. They arrived in Hamburg by train to embark for the sea. For most of them, the USA became their new home. When the outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in August 1892 led to persistent rumors that the disease had been brought in by the immigrants, travelers from Russia and Austria-Hungary were banned from entering the city. The first closed accommodation facilities for 1,400 people were provided by the primitive emigrant barracks on the Amerika Kai, completed in 1892 by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (HAPAG). New, larger and more comfortable emigrant halls were opened on the Veddel in 1901 - the so-called Ballinstadt. The new facility offered space for 1,200 people. It was heated with steam, had a synagogue, two churches, music pavilions, recreation rooms and two dining halls, one for Christian and one for Jewish emigrants, the latter with its own kosher kitchen.

from: https://www.hamburg.de/resource/blob/148050/dcb7c55c58774e2a19a459f5a7f988d3/juedisches-hamburg-data.pdf