Once teaming with labourers
I visited Hamburg's Speicherstadt twice during my trip to Hamburg. The first visit was under a dark overcast sky. The damp weather adds quite a bit of melancholic and sinister feelings to the area! Unfortunately I didn’t record the exact location of this place.
Thanks to my friend Michael, this is most likely the inner courtyard of a historic building called Sandthorquai-hof, at Pickhuben 2.
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One of Hamburg's famous attractions is its historic warehouse district known as "Speicherstadt" (literally: warehouse city). It is the largest warehouse district in the world where the red-brick warehouses were built on on oak-log pile foundations next to the Hamburg harbour and canals between 1883 and 1927. The district was created as a free-trade zone to transfer goods without paying customs. After the 1960s, vast technological changes in shipping and logistics diminished the area's importance in trade. From the 1980s onward, the old warehouses were converted into offices for media companies, advertising agencies, art studios, museums and galleries, restaurants and cafés, and a few retail shops. Speicherstadt is entirely surrounded by water, crisscrossed by canals and connected by numerous bridges. It is a confusing but interesting area to explore. (With some information from Wikipedia.)
Once teaming with labourers
I visited Hamburg's Speicherstadt twice during my trip to Hamburg. The first visit was under a dark overcast sky. The damp weather adds quite a bit of melancholic and sinister feelings to the area! Unfortunately I didn’t record the exact location of this place.
Thanks to my friend Michael, this is most likely the inner courtyard of a historic building called Sandthorquai-hof, at Pickhuben 2.
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One of Hamburg's famous attractions is its historic warehouse district known as "Speicherstadt" (literally: warehouse city). It is the largest warehouse district in the world where the red-brick warehouses were built on on oak-log pile foundations next to the Hamburg harbour and canals between 1883 and 1927. The district was created as a free-trade zone to transfer goods without paying customs. After the 1960s, vast technological changes in shipping and logistics diminished the area's importance in trade. From the 1980s onward, the old warehouses were converted into offices for media companies, advertising agencies, art studios, museums and galleries, restaurants and cafés, and a few retail shops. Speicherstadt is entirely surrounded by water, crisscrossed by canals and connected by numerous bridges. It is a confusing but interesting area to explore. (With some information from Wikipedia.)