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Constructed between 1905 and 1907 as part of the third phase of construction of the Speicherstadt (1899 to 1912), the four-story building is one of the most recognizable landmarks and oldest buildings in the historic warehouse complex.
The design was probably based on designs by the two Hamburg architects Bernhard Georg Hanssen and Wilhelm Emil Meerwein , who were also involved in the designs for Hamburg City Hall . The brick facade is kept in historicizing forms and was decorated with glass brick bands and granite structuresfitted. Other features include the green copper roof, tall arched windows and round bay windows. The only tower is a clock turret with decorative bands of green glazed bricks and red granite stones. The flat, water-side extension at the back of the moated castle is not part of the original building, but was built in the post-war period from rubble. Until recently, the building housed offices and storage rooms. Originally, the moated castle was used as accommodation and workshop for the dock workers who carried out maintenance and repairs on the hydraulic storage winches . They were called wind guards or wind guards and had the privilege of being allowed to live in the warehouse district, along with other technical personnel.
The winches were an important part of the warehouses: there were - and still are - no freight elevators . All goods were pulled to and from the storage floors of the warehouses with winches on the outside of the facades.
The spare parts required for the maintenance work, some of which were heavy, could be transported from here via roads and canals. On the waterway via two cranes on the east side of the building, on land via an old cobbled street that leads directly into the building and ends behind the large double doors of the moated castle.
Today the building is used for commercial purposes. On the ground floor there is a commercial space for the tea trade with attached gastronomy. An oxygen therapy provider is located on the first floor . Because of its location and architecture, it has also served as a backdrop for television productions , such as the children's TV series The Peppercorns . [2]
The Wasserschlösschen also trades as the "external marriage office" of the Hamburg-Mitte registry office
Wasserschloss Hamburg_.jpg
Constructed between 1905 and 1907 as part of the third phase of construction of the Speicherstadt (1899 to 1912), the four-story building is one of the most recognizable landmarks and oldest buildings in the historic warehouse complex.
The design was probably based on designs by the two Hamburg architects Bernhard Georg Hanssen and Wilhelm Emil Meerwein , who were also involved in the designs for Hamburg City Hall . The brick facade is kept in historicizing forms and was decorated with glass brick bands and granite structuresfitted. Other features include the green copper roof, tall arched windows and round bay windows. The only tower is a clock turret with decorative bands of green glazed bricks and red granite stones. The flat, water-side extension at the back of the moated castle is not part of the original building, but was built in the post-war period from rubble. Until recently, the building housed offices and storage rooms. Originally, the moated castle was used as accommodation and workshop for the dock workers who carried out maintenance and repairs on the hydraulic storage winches . They were called wind guards or wind guards and had the privilege of being allowed to live in the warehouse district, along with other technical personnel.
The winches were an important part of the warehouses: there were - and still are - no freight elevators . All goods were pulled to and from the storage floors of the warehouses with winches on the outside of the facades.
The spare parts required for the maintenance work, some of which were heavy, could be transported from here via roads and canals. On the waterway via two cranes on the east side of the building, on land via an old cobbled street that leads directly into the building and ends behind the large double doors of the moated castle.
Today the building is used for commercial purposes. On the ground floor there is a commercial space for the tea trade with attached gastronomy. An oxygen therapy provider is located on the first floor . Because of its location and architecture, it has also served as a backdrop for television productions , such as the children's TV series The Peppercorns . [2]
The Wasserschlösschen also trades as the "external marriage office" of the Hamburg-Mitte registry office