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In the heart of Hamburg, the Binnenalster, or Inner Alster, is the smaller of the two ornamental lakes formed when the River Alster was dammed for milling around the year 1250. The terms inner and outer refer to the city's long-gone medieval walls: the Binnenalster was the basin that lay inside them, while the much larger Aussenalster spreads out beyond, the two now separated by the Lombardsbruecke and Kennedybruecke bridges. Covering only about 0.2 square kilometres and nowhere much more than t...