The city is famous for its nightlife, carnival, events, shopping and for fashion and trade fairs like the Boot Messe one of the world's best trade fairs for boats and watersports and Igedo world leader in fashion.
Every year, more than 4 million people visit the Kirmes fun fair which runs for 9 days in the summer. Prostitution in Germany is legal , and so are brothels. In , the government changed the law in an effort to improve the legal situation of prostitutes. However, the social stigmatization of prostitutes persists and many prostitutes continue to lead a double life. Authorities consider the common exploitation of women from Eastern Europe to be the main problem associated with the occupation.
It is thought that around two thirds of the Germany 's , sex workers come from other countries. Red-light districts have also become much more prominent in Germany's major cities - there is approximately established brothels in Germany and the trade is now big business.
About 80 percent of prostitutes have a migration background. Escort services, where the customer calls to have a woman meet him at home or at a hotel for sexual services, exist in Germany as well, but are not nearly as prevalent as in the US.
The place consists of a big five-storey building with each window numbered. This obviously creates problems for windows that are higher up.
