At the turn of the century the area north of the already densely populated city districts Winterhude and Eppendorf was already being sought out by walkers. They drove with horse and carriage and later with the tram to Ohlsdorf, the starting point to the upper Alster valley. Anyone who did not want to visit places as distant as Wellingsbüttel and Poppenbüttel made do with the journey back from Fuhlsbüttel along the right bank of the Alster to Eppendorf. At the point where in the 1895 map the river, which is snaking along with many windings through the Wiesenthal on its way to the big city, is pushing furthest north there stands the Alsterkrug. An Inn charmingly situated on the Alster. The old inn, which still had a thatched roof burnt down in 1894 but was shortly afterwards built up again as a modern type of construction with a little tower. The real country inn soon developed into a much-visited pub for day-trippers, which especially provided hospitality for the visitors of the Borsteler racetrack set up in 1891. On race days after leaving the tram the people streamed in the Alsterdorf Strasse along the Alsterdorfer Damm, across the old wooden bridge of the Alster, through the Sportstrasse -today Sportallee– which leads curving from the Alsterkrug to the race track, to the stands, built in the Swiss style, of the race area.

The owner at the beginning of the twentieth century had the same name as his ancestor Hein Möller, who married into the inn in 1729. And this brings up the question: how old is the Alsterkrug actually? In the year of opening of the new Alsterkrug hotel 265 years had gone by since the enclosure of the location by the St. Johannis monastery. Up to 1720 the location of today's Alsterkrug was uncultivated and allowed to remain as moorland; it was hardly used as pasture and was claimed neither by Gross Borstel nor by Eppendorf. 13 hill graves from pre-history prove at this time the wild origins of the landscape. After 1700 the monastery, like other landowners, made use of the land enclosures as a welcome source of income. In this way a commonage settler - in reality limited to house and garden, could be settled; after further land enclosures he would hardly have had much less land under cultivation than a small farmer. Around 1774 the land which had the locality name Alsterkamp still belonged to Eppendorf. It was only in 1791 that it joined Gross Borstel. The name Alsterkrug later came into use. For a while people still spoke of the commonage settlers on the Alsterkamp. In 1721 Jacob Helwig followed on as owner and in 1725 Elert Harbeck. Four years later Hein Möller, a native of Steinbeck, married the widow of the latter. But it was only his second wife who bore him 8 children and in this way ensured the survival of his name on the Alsterkamp for a further 5 generations.

Their position on the freight- and post road to Kiel near Furt on the Alster, farming and a distillery made it possible to achieve a solid prosperity.

In 1919 the last Hein Möller retired and sold his property. D.N. Borchers was his successor. A winter picture from that time shows the Alsterkrug road decorated with its trees, one of the prettiest roads of our area, shaded by old elm trees, so it says in the guide book through the Alster region in 1912.

Many people have been glad to come often as guests to the house; they have regretted that Mrs Hertha Hansen, née Borchers, the owner since 1936, retired from the active management and that the inn was closed down in 1981.

Now again the old inn on the Alsterkamp of Hein Möller "Innkeeper and brandy-distiller", as the monastery steward of the St. Johannis-monastery called him in 1808, has risen once again as a distinguished Alsterkrug hotel.