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Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich Hamburg besucht um dort die Speicherstadt bei Nacht zu fotografieren. Viele Import-Export-Firmen haben dort ihre Lagerhäuser. Die alten Häuser werden mit viel Aufwand von der Stadt Hamburg wieder restauriert. Es ist ein viel besuchter Ort von Fotografen und Touristen.
Viel Spaß beim betrachten.
A few days ago I visited Hamburg to made photos of the warehouse district at night. Many import-export companies have their warehouses there. The old houses are being restored by the city of Hamburg with a lot of effort. It is a much visited place by photographers and tourists.
Have fun looking at it.
几天前，我访问了汉堡，在晚上拍摄了仓库区的照片。 许多进出口公司在那都设有仓库。 汉堡市正在努力地修复旧房子。 这是摄影师和游客光顾的地方。
玩得开心。
قبل أيام قليلة قمت بزيارة هامبورغ لعمل صور لمنطقة المستودع ليلاً. العديد من شركات الاستيراد والتصدير لديها مستودعاتها هناك. يتم ترميم المنازل القديمة من قبل مدينة هامبورغ مع الكثير من الجهد. إنه مكان يزوره الكثير من المصورين والسياح.
استمتع بالنظر إليها.
Es war damals genauso heiß wie heute, Wirhaben Hamburg besucht wärend zu Hause das Bad saniert wurde. Eine Abkühlung an der Binnenalster ist immer gut. Rechts neben der Wasserfonäne ist der Turm der St. Katharinenkirche , rechts davon ist der Turm des Hamburger Rathauses zu sehen.
Ich wünsche Euch einen relaxten Samstag liebe Freunde!
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t was just as hot then as it is now, we visited Hamburg while the bathroom was being renovated at home. A cooling off at the Binnenalster is always good. On the right side of the water fountain is the tower of the ev. church "Michel", on the right side you can see the tower of the Hamburg city hall.
I wish you a relaxed Saturday dear friends!
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Il faisait alors aussi chaud qu'aujourd'hui, nous avons visité Hambourg pendant que la salle de bains était en cours de rénovation chez nous. Un rafraîchissement au Binnenalster est toujours bon. Juste à côté de la fontaine d'eau se trouve la tour de St. Katharinenkirche , à droite de laquelle on peut voir la tour de l'hôtel de ville de Hambourg.
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Yesterday the Queen Mary 2 visited Hamburg.
I guess it is a good choice for my photo No 400 :)
60 seconds of the 117 seconds of the exposure time the Ferris wheel stood still, that caused an interesting effect...
59 sec in Speicherstadt in Hamburg. This place offers many opportunities to take an interesting photo and the same time many challenges when it comes to getting it right in the first place... if you plan to visit Hamburg, I strongly recommend visiting Speicherstadt zone, worth every sec of your exposition time
Hamburg - Moments
Hermann Claudius and the Hamburg Underground
In the Jungfernstieg underground station near Hamburg's City Hall, the alert observer sees some strange signs. On one is written:
"The century's seven
maidens have remained the same.
And I old oak stake
stand here at the same mark."
I hear the message, but the meaning is far from me. But wait, there is indeed a pole, illuminated and full of sculptures. It is an old driven pile that was uncovered during the construction of the Hamburg underground in the 1930s. It belonged to the weir built around 1250 on the Alstermühlendamm - a forerunner of today's Jungfernstieg. History at your fingertips - great. A construction worker is also commemorated here. Otto Liss had an accident during the difficult construction work in November 1932 and died shortly afterwards. Visit Hamburg's history in an unusual place - take the underground.
The Italian sail training ship 'Amerigo Vespucci' (one of the most beautiful ships of the world) visits Hamburg.
And at the left the museum ship 'Cap San Diego' (which is called 'the white swan')
Situado en el barrio Altstadt en el centro de la ciudad, cerca del lago Binnenalster y la estación central. Construido entre 1886 y 1897, el ayuntamiento aún alberga sus funciones gubernamentales, como la oficina del Alcalde de Hamburgo y las salas de reuniones del Parlamento y el Senado de Hamburgo.
Después de que el antiguo ayuntamiento fuera destruido en el gran incendio de 1842, se tardaron 55 años en construir uno nuevo. El edificio actual fue diseñado por un grupo de siete arquitectos, dirigido por Martin Haller. La construcción comenzó en 1886 y el nuevo ayuntamiento se inauguró en 1897.
Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, varios jefes de estado visitaron Hamburgo y su Ayuntamiento, entre ellos el Emperador Haile Selassie I, el Shahanshah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi en 1955, y la Reina Isabel II en 1965. Se celebró una ceremonia de recuerdo en la plaza del mercado por las víctimas de la inundación del mar del Norte de 1962. Un momento más feliz fue la celebración del campeonato de fútbol logrado por el Hamburger SV
El exterior del edificio es de estilo neorrenacentista, que es sustituido en el interior por algunos elementos históricos. Es uno de los pocos edificios preservados íntegramente de estilo historicista en Hamburgo. Construido en un período de riqueza y prosperidad, en el que el Reino de Prusia y sus confederados derrotaron a Francia en la guerra franco-prusiana y se creó el Imperio Alemán, el aspecto del nuevo Ayuntamiento de Hamburgo debía expresar esta riqueza y también la independencia del estado de Hamburgo y sus tradición republicana. El ayuntamiento tiene una superficie total de 17000 m², sin incluir el restaurante Ratsweinkeller de 2900 m². La torre tiene 112 m de altura y 436 escalones. El edificio tiene 647 habitaciones, seis más que el Palacio de Buckingham, en una superficie de 5400 m².
El balcón está coronado por un mosaico de la diosa patrona de Hamburgo, Hammonia, una inscipción del lema latino "Libertatem quam peperere maiores digne studeat servare posteritas"9 (que la posteridad se esfuerce para preservar la libertad conseguida por nuestros mayores) y el escudo de la ciudad.
El patio está decorado con una fuente de Higía. como la diosa de la salud en la mitología griega, y las figuras que la rodean representan el poder y pureza del agua. Fue construido en recuerdo de la epidemia de cólera de 1892; su antigua función era la refrigeración del aire del ayuntamiento.
59 sec in Speicherstadt in Hamburg. This place offers many opportunities to take an interesting photo and the same time many challenges when it comes to getting it right in the first place... if you plan to visit Hamburg, I strongly recommend visiting Speicherstadt zone, worth every sec of your exposition time
... Hamburg gemäss Aussage der Stadt ungefähr 2'500 Brücken hat? Das sind mehr Brücken als Venedig und Amsterdam zusammen haben.
Somit ist Hamburg Europas Brückenhauptstadt.
In Venedig gibt es etwas mehr als 400 Brücken und in Amsterdam sind es deren 1'281 (Stand 2016)
Wenn ihr nächstes mal Hamburg besucht, vergesst nicht die Brücken zu zählen .. ;)))
... Hamburg, according to the city, has about 2'500 bridges? These are more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam have together.
Thus Hamburg is Europe's bridge capital.
In Venice there are a little more than 400 bridges and in Amsterdam there are 1'281 (as of 2016).
Next time you visit Hamburg, don't forget to count the bridges .. ;)))
... Hamburgo, según la ciudad, tiene unos 2'500 puentes? Son más puentes de los que Venecia y Ámsterdam tienen juntas.
Por lo tanto, Hamburgo es la capital europea de los puentes.
En Venecia hay un poco más de 400 puentes y en Amsterdam hay 1'281 (a partir de 2016).
Cuando visites Hamburgo, no te olvides condes los puentes .. ;))) Bitte respektiere mein Copyright.
Keine Verwendung des Fotos ohne meine ausdrückliche Genehmigung.
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no photoshop sky, no photoshop window rows, just the original shot out of cam with a bit of LR editing and alining. this was shot with the all amazing voigtlander 10 mm f5.6 Heliar Hyper Wide on sonyalpha A7s I in lovely Hamburg, my most visited and so beloved city this year.
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Burchardkai sunset
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Whenever you come to visit hamburg, take your camera, your tripod and a few beers. The Burchardkai (Waltershofer Hafen) is one of the top photospots in Hamburg, where you should have taken your own picture. Meet like-minded people here and have a good time - when it's not raining!
I wanted to take advantage of one of the last days of summer for this year, so I went where most people go when they visit Hamburg: to the river Elbe.
In this shot I wanted to capture the Hamburg-flag - waving in the wind - with the harbor in the background. Two very distinct features of Hamburg in the light of the setting sun. It can be quite hard to capture a waving flag at the right time... I took more than 50 shots to get a couple good ones. The ship in the middle was a lucky coincidence ;)
I actually took a shot of this place with a much wider lens last year, you can check it out here: www.flickr.com/photos/mind_surfer/23791265466/
Thank you for your time! Please leave a fave or comment, if you like this picture :) If there is something you would have done differently - feel free to tell me in the comments! :)
Germany, Hamburg, part of the City seen from about 150 m above Ground from a high-flyer towards the “Warehouse City”, the Elb-Philharmonic still under construction, the Container Port on the "Elbe" River streaming west towards the North sea & the city centre with the two “Alster” lakes in the heart of Hamburg.
With close to two million residents, Hamburg, “HH” Free & Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is Germany’s second largest city after Berlin.
The entire port area accounts for about a third of the total area of the of Hamburg
The most important economic unit is the Port of Hamburg, which ranks second to Rotterdam in Europe & ninth worldwide. Besides the up to 400 mtr long container ships & all kind of other freighters, over 250 cruise liner visit Hamburg during the tourist season. The entire port area accounts for about a third of the total area of Hamburg.
International trade is also the reason for the large number of consulates in the city. Although situated 110 km up the river Elbe from the North Sea, it is considered a sea port due to its ability to handle large ocean-going vessels.
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No! This is a night scene from the 'Miniatur-Wunderland' in Hamburg, the world largest model railway with so many fantastic details! You must go there if you visit Hamburg!! You can find a lot impressions at Youtube...
Germany, Wedel, Cruise Liner Quantum of the Seas passing on the river Elbe in Wedel, a suburb of Hamburg.
The third largest cruise ship of the world operated by Royal Caribbean International, visited Hamburg, for a last inspection at the dockyard of Blohm & Voss before sailing to Cape Liberty, New Jersey USA, with stopover in Bremerhaven & Southampton. Quantum of the Seas will spend its inaugural 2014-2015 season sailing with short trips from its homeport, before repositioning to China in May 2015. Beginning late June 2015, the ship will sail three to eight night itineraries year around from Shanghai to Japan & Korea.
The Quantum of the Seas is until today the largest cruise liner built in Germany, the construction time took one a half year. The ship is equipped with the latest state of art high-tech gimmicks. The "NorthStar" observation tower, located at the forward end of the top deck, will use a 7.1-tonne glass-walled capsule on the end of a 41-meter-long crane arm to lift groups of up to 14 guests up & over the edge of the ship, reaching heights of up to over 90 mtr above sea level, a Bar where the drinks are mixed by robots etc., etc., besides Restaurants, bars, fitness centre, Broadway shows & all other commodities of a large cruise liner.
The worldwide third largest cruise ship has a length of 348 mtr, 41,5 mtr wide & a draught of 8,5 mtr, cabins & suits are for 4180 to a max of 4900 guest, reaching a speed of 22 knots equal to almost 41 km per hour
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It is impossible to miss this incredible hot spot
when you visit hamburg in the city part that is called speicherstadt.
and yet it is different every time which another sky….
Bij een bezoek aan Hamburg is het schier onmogenlijk deze Hotspot te missen.
Het was alweer 2 jaar geleden dat ik hier was en dacht nu deze aanblik maar eens
In fulframe te schieten ..... Geniet er van :)
Queen Mary 2 in the dock of the Hamburg shipyard "Blohm und Voss".
Queen Mary 2 visits Hamburg frequently and with the clock tower of Landungsbrücken it is probably a classic Hamburg port picture
Hope you like it and thanks for any comment !
Die Hamburger Speicherstadt "Bei St. Annen" und "Neuer Wandrahm" zum Anfang der blauen Stunde.
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Container Carrier "Estelle Mærsk" inbound Hamburg on 12.09.15! On the right you can see the Cruise "Mein Schiff 4" which visited Hamburg for the Cruise Days!
Das (zur Zeit) größte Container-Schiff der Welt zu Besuch im Hamburger Hafen.
The world's largest Container-ship visits Hamburg harbour.
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Germany, Hamburg/Wedel, the tall ship "Peking", a steel-hulled four-masted barque. The Peking is back in its home port after more than 70 years & is to become the landmark of the new German Port Museum. "Peking" is the old German name for the city of "Beijing".
1852 Carl Laeisz entered the family business & turned the F. Laeisz Company into a shipping business. 1857 they ordered a barque & named her "Pudel", the nickname of Carl's wife Sophie. From the mid-1880th on it was customary that all their ships had names starting with "P", they became known as "the P-line".
Technical data of the "Peking"
Maiden voyage - May 16, 1911 to Chile
Type of ship - four-masted steel barque
Measurement - 3,100 GRT
Length - 115 mtr
Width - 14.40 mtr
Draft - max. 7.24 mtr
Mast height - 51 mtr above deck
Maximum speed -17 knots
Crew members while still in service
- 31 as cargo ship & 74 as sailing training ship
......👉…..the long voyage of the over 100 years old Peking
back to their home port.......👉…..👉…..👉…..👉…..👉
1911, the Peking, built for 680.000 Marks at that time & launched in February 1911 leaving Hamburg for her maiden voyage to Valparaiso in May of the same year.
She was particularly suitable for transport of nitrate/saltpetre from Chile to Europe. In the following few years she sailed to ports such as Valparaiso, Taltal, Talcahuano, Iquique & Mejillones, returning habitually home to Hamburg.
After the outbreak of World War the tall ship was confined at Valparaiso & remained in Chile for the duration of the war.
Afterward the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War stipulated that the Peking had to be handed over to the Kingdom of Italy as war reparation. Nevertheless, since Italy had no use for the ship, the Peking remained in London for the time being.
1923 F. Laeisz was able to re-purchase its ship for £ 8.500 & once again transporting nitrate/saltpeter from Chile to Europe, now also called ports in the Netherlands & San Antonio/USA.
1927, after a voyage to Chile, the Peking returned to Hamburg, where at Blohm & Voss Shipyard the poop deck, a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear part, was extended by ten metres, as the Peking was to be used from then on as a cargo carrying sailing training vessel. The ship now had room for 31 sailors & 43 naval cadets.
1932, she was sold for £6,250 to Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. in England, towed to Greenhithe & renamed Arethusa II, moored alongside the existing Arethusa I. In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, used as a children's home & training school. During World War II she served in the Royal Navy as "HMS Pekin".
1939, when World War II began, Arethusa was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, brought to Salcombe & got the name HMS PEKING, since there was already a ship with the name HMS Arethusa.
After the end of World War II, the ship was handed over back to the Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. & returned to be named Arethusa, towed back to Upnor, continuing serving as a training ship until 1974.
1974, due to high maintenance costs, the old tall ship was retired, the organization decided to part with her & she almost returned to Hamburg at that time, but experts were of the opinion that she would not survive the tow to Hamburg.
The Arethusa II was sold for £ 70,000 to as "Peking" to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, where she remained for the next four decades.
1975, after a shipyard stay of a year the Arethusa was towed to New York by the Dutch tug "Utrecht" & got her original name Peking back, she was also painted in the original colours of F. Laeisz & served as a museum ship.
Unfortunately over the years however, the museum was not able to maintain the two large ships it owned & as a consequence the essential preservation & repair work was gradually more & more neglected. As the Peking was in poor condition, the upper deck had to be lined with plywood panels, decks in the lower holds were dilapidated & closed to the public.
However, the Seaport NYC did not see Peking as part of its long-term operational plans & was planning to send vessel to the scrap yard.
Beginning in 2002, members of the association negotiated with the museum for the return of Peking to its original home port of Hamburg. Initially, due to the museums high asking price a negotiation could not be finalized.
After the realization it was no longer possible to sell the ship due to her need for repair, the interested parties in Hamburg asked for restoration quotations from local yards.
At the same time, the association looked for funds for the transport, because of the vessels condition it has to be carried out by using a dock ship crossing the Atlantic & for the complete renovation of the structure & rigging. An attempt to raise the necessary funds from the Hamburg business community was not success.
2012 an offer to return the ship to Hamburg, where she was originally built, as a gift from the city of New York, was contingent upon raising donations in Germany to ensure the preservation of the vessel.
2015 it was declared that the quay in New York had to be vacated by the end of June, which would have meant the final end for the Peking at a junkyard.
November 2015 the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided to provide € 120 million of federal funds for a new, the third, large German Port Museum in the Hamburg port area. The main attraction would be the restored Peking. The "Maritim Foundation" purchased the ship for US$ 100.
September 2016 she was taken to Caddell Dry Dock, Staten Island to spend the winter.
July 2017, she was docked & transported at a cost of some €1 million, on the deck of the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship Combi Dock III across the Atlantic.
August, 2017, the Peking was transferred to the Peters Shipyard located at Wewelsfleth/Schleswig-Holstein for a three-year refurbishment at a cost of € 38 million.
The restoration included review of rigging, double floor steel plates, dismounting & remount of all masts, docking in dry-dock, renewal of the steel structure, removal of the cement that filled the lower three & a half mtr of the hull, painting, wood work & overall refurbishment. The ship spent about two years in a dry dock. The Peking was re-floated on September 2018 with primer paint Hull. Teak was reinstalled on deck.
Finally on September 7, 2020 the ship was "sailing", pulled by a tug boat in front & one tug boat in the back to assist the manoeuvring, to the German Port Museum at the Hamburg Harbour.
Four of the Flying P-Liners still exist today:
Peking; since September 2020 as museum ship in Hamburg, Germany.
Pommern; museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland.
Passat; museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde, Germany.
Padua; the only ship still active & today a school ship sailing as "Kruzenshtern" under a Russian flag & visits Hamburg every year during the Harbour Birthday.
….& last but not least,
....in the early 1980s I visited the "Peking" in New York, not a bit thought that I would live & work a few years in Peking/Beijing in the 2000s, even less, that I would see the renovated Peking, shining in its old splendour, sailing up the River Elbe to its new/old port in 2020.
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We had so much fun yesterday! :D
Unfortunately it's a little bit unsharp :s
I'll visit Hamburg for one week!
That's because the picture for week 37 will be a little bit delayed.
Have a great week!:)
I took this shot when I visited Hamburg for the "Blue Port" event. We were a group of crazy photographers who joined in the evening for a special harbour cruise. This cruise was organized by fotohaven.de and the FF-Fotoschule Hamburg. The trip started short after sunset. When we arrived at th (only) big container ship in the harbour at this time the blue hour just began. We had the opportunity to get very close to the ship and take some niche pictures.
Die St. Katharinen Kirche, die Elphi, die Speicherstadt und der Zollkanal zu einem echten coolem Himmel. Der Himmel sah schon in den letzen Tag echt schön aus, das ich mich ganz leicht zu einer kleinen Fototour durch Hamburg überreden konnte. Zu welchem Wetter und zu welcher Zeit geht ihr gerne fotografieren?
The St. Catherine's Church, the "Elphi", the "Speicherstadt", the "Zollkanal" and a really cool sky. The sky looked really beautiful in the last day, that I could easily persuade myself to a small photo tour through Hamburg. What kind of weather and at what time do you like to take pictures?
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Germany, Hamburg/Wedel, the tall ship "Peking", a steel-hulled four-masted barque. The Peking is back in its home port after more than 70 years & is to become the landmark of the new German Port Museum. "Peking" is the old German name for the city of "Beijing".
1852 Carl Laeisz entered the family business & turned the F. Laeisz Company into a shipping business. 1857 they ordered a barque & named her "Pudel", the nickname of Carl's wife Sophie. From the mid-1880th on it was customary that all their ships had names starting with "P", they became known as "the P-line".
Technical data of the "Peking"
Maiden voyage - May 16, 1911 to Chile
Type of ship - four-masted steel barque
Measurement - 3,100 GRT
Length - 115 mtr
Width - 14.40 mtr
Draft - max. 7.24 mtr
Mast height - 51 mtr above deck
Maximum speed -17 knots
Crew members while still in service
- 31 as cargo ship & 74 as sailing training ship
......👉…..the long voyage of the over 100 years old Peking
back to their home port.......👉…..👉…..👉…..👉…..👉
1911, the Peking, built for 680.000 Marks at that time & launched in February 1911 leaving Hamburg for her maiden voyage to Valparaiso in May of the same year.
She was particularly suitable for transport of nitrate/saltpetre from Chile to Europe. In the following few years she sailed to ports such as Valparaiso, Taltal, Talcahuano, Iquique & Mejillones, returning habitually home to Hamburg.
After the outbreak of World War the tall ship was confined at Valparaiso & remained in Chile for the duration of the war.
Afterward the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War stipulated that the Peking had to be handed over to the Kingdom of Italy as war reparation. Nevertheless, since Italy had no use for the ship, the Peking remained in London for the time being.
1923 F. Laeisz was able to re-purchase its ship for £ 8.500 & once again transporting nitrate/saltpeter from Chile to Europe, now also called ports in the Netherlands & San Antonio/USA.
1927, after a voyage to Chile, the Peking returned to Hamburg, where at Blohm & Voss Shipyard the poop deck, a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear part, was extended by ten metres, as the Peking was to be used from then on as a cargo carrying sailing training vessel. The ship now had room for 31 sailors & 43 naval cadets.
1932, she was sold for £6,250 to Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. in England, towed to Greenhithe & renamed Arethusa II, moored alongside the existing Arethusa I. In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, used as a children's home & training school. During World War II she served in the Royal Navy as "HMS Pekin".
1939, when World War II began, Arethusa was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, brought to Salcombe & got the name HMS PEKING, since there was already a ship with the name HMS Arethusa.
After the end of World War II, the ship was handed over back to the Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. & returned to be named Arethusa, towed back to Upnor, continuing serving as a training ship until 1974.
1974, due to high maintenance costs, the old tall ship was retired, the organization decided to part with her & she almost returned to Hamburg at that time, but experts were of the opinion that she would not survive the tow to Hamburg.
The Arethusa II was sold for £ 70,000 to as "Peking" to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, where she remained for the next four decades.
1975, after a shipyard stay of a year the Arethusa was towed to New York by the Dutch tug "Utrecht" & got her original name Peking back, she was also painted in the original colours of F. Laeisz & served as a museum ship.
Unfortunately over the years however, the museum was not able to maintain the two large ships it owned & as a consequence the essential preservation & repair work was gradually more & more neglected. As the Peking was in poor condition, the upper deck had to be lined with plywood panels, decks in the lower holds were dilapidated & closed to the public.
However, the Seaport NYC did not see Peking as part of its long-term operational plans & was planning to send vessel to the scrap yard.
Beginning in 2002, members of the association negotiated with the museum for the return of Peking to its original home port of Hamburg. Initially, due to the museums high asking price a negotiation could not be finalized.
After the realization it was no longer possible to sell the ship due to her need for repair, the interested parties in Hamburg asked for restoration quotations from local yards.
At the same time, the association looked for funds for the transport, because of the vessels condition it has to be carried out by using a dock ship crossing the Atlantic & for the complete renovation of the structure & rigging. An attempt to raise the necessary funds from the Hamburg business community was not success.
2012 an offer to return the ship to Hamburg, where she was originally built, as a gift from the city of New York, was contingent upon raising donations in Germany to ensure the preservation of the vessel.
2015 it was declared that the quay in New York had to be vacated by the end of June, which would have meant the final end for the Peking at a junkyard.
November 2015 the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided to provide € 120 million of federal funds for a new, the third, large German Port Museum in the Hamburg port area. The main attraction would be the restored Peking. The "Maritim Foundation" purchased the ship for US$ 100.
September 2016 she was taken to Caddell Dry Dock, Staten Island to spend the winter.
July 2017, she was docked & transported at a cost of some €1 million, on the deck of the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship Combi Dock III across the Atlantic.
August, 2017, the Peking was transferred to the Peters Shipyard located at Wewelsfleth/Schleswig-Holstein for a three-year refurbishment at a cost of € 38 million.
The restoration included review of rigging, double floor steel plates, dismounting & remount of all masts, docking in dry-dock, renewal of the steel structure, removal of the cement that filled the lower three & a half mtr of the hull, painting, wood work & overall refurbishment. The ship spent about two years in a dry dock. The Peking was re-floated on September 2018 with primer paint Hull. Teak was reinstalled on deck.
Finally on September 7, 2020 the ship was "sailing", pulled by a tug boat in front & one tug boat in the back to assist the manoeuvring, to the German Port Museum at the Hamburg Harbour.
Four of the Flying P-Liners still exist today:
Peking; since September 2020 as museum ship in Hamburg, Germany.
Pommern; museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland.
Passat; museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde, Germany.
Padua; the only ship still active & today a school ship sailing as "Kruzenshtern" under a Russian flag & visits Hamburg every year during the Harbour Birthday.
….& last but not least,
....in the early 1980s I visited the "Peking" in New York, not a bit thought that I would live & work a few years in Peking/Beijing in the 2000s, even less, that I would see the renovated Peking, shining in its old splendour, sailing up the River Elbe to its new/old port in 2020.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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Die Speicherstadt in Hamburg. Bevor ich das Foto gemacht habe hatte mir das Motiv gar nicht so recht gefallen, aber durch das blaue Licht sieht es doch echt schön aus finde ich.
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg. Before I took the picture, I had not really liked the motive, but the blue light makes it look really nice on the picture, I think.
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Germany, Hamburg/Wedel, the tall ship "Peking", a steel-hulled four-masted barque. The Peking is back in its home port after more than 70 years & is to become the landmark of the new German Port Museum. "Peking" is the old German name for the city of "Beijing".
1852 Carl Laeisz entered the family business & turned the F. Laeisz Company into a shipping business. 1857 they ordered a barque & named her "Pudel", the nickname of Carl's wife Sophie. From the mid-1880th on it was customary that all their ships had names starting with "P", they became known as "the P-line".
Technical data of the "Peking"
Maiden voyage - May 16, 1911 to Chile
Type of ship - four-masted steel barque
Measurement - 3,100 GRT
Length - 115 mtr
Width - 14.40 mtr
Draft - max. 7.24 mtr
Mast height - 51 mtr above deck
Maximum speed -17 knots
Crew members while still in service
- 31 as cargo ship & 74 as sailing training ship
......👉…..the long voyage of the over 100 years old Peking
back to their home port.......👉…..👉…..👉…..👉…..👉
1911, the Peking, built for 680.000 Marks at that time & launched in February 1911 leaving Hamburg for her maiden voyage to Valparaiso in May of the same year.
She was particularly suitable for transport of nitrate/saltpetre from Chile to Europe. In the following few years she sailed to ports such as Valparaiso, Taltal, Talcahuano, Iquique & Mejillones, returning habitually home to Hamburg.
After the outbreak of World War the tall ship was confined at Valparaiso & remained in Chile for the duration of the war.
Afterward the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War stipulated that the Peking had to be handed over to the Kingdom of Italy as war reparation. Nevertheless, since Italy had no use for the ship, the Peking remained in London for the time being.
1923 F. Laeisz was able to re-purchase its ship for £ 8.500 & once again transporting nitrate/saltpeter from Chile to Europe, now also called ports in the Netherlands & San Antonio/USA.
1927, after a voyage to Chile, the Peking returned to Hamburg, where at Blohm & Voss Shipyard the poop deck, a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear part, was extended by ten metres, as the Peking was to be used from then on as a cargo carrying sailing training vessel. The ship now had room for 31 sailors & 43 naval cadets.
1932, she was sold for £6,250 to Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. in England, towed to Greenhithe & renamed Arethusa II, moored alongside the existing Arethusa I. In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, used as a children's home & training school. During World War II she served in the Royal Navy as "HMS Pekin".
1939, when World War II began, Arethusa was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, brought to Salcombe & got the name HMS PEKING, since there was already a ship with the name HMS Arethusa.
After the end of World War II, the ship was handed over back to the Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. & returned to be named Arethusa, towed back to Upnor, continuing serving as a training ship until 1974.
1974, due to high maintenance costs, the old tall ship was retired, the organization decided to part with her & she almost returned to Hamburg at that time, but experts were of the opinion that she would not survive the tow to Hamburg.
The Arethusa II was sold for £ 70,000 to as "Peking" to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, where she remained for the next four decades.
1975, after a shipyard stay of a year the Arethusa was towed to New York by the Dutch tug "Utrecht" & got her original name Peking back, she was also painted in the original colours of F. Laeisz & served as a museum ship.
Unfortunately over the years however, the museum was not able to maintain the two large ships it owned & as a consequence the essential preservation & repair work was gradually more & more neglected. As the Peking was in poor condition, the upper deck had to be lined with plywood panels, decks in the lower holds were dilapidated & closed to the public.
However, the Seaport NYC did not see Peking as part of its long-term operational plans & was planning to send vessel to the scrap yard.
Beginning in 2002, members of the association negotiated with the museum for the return of Peking to its original home port of Hamburg. Initially, due to the museums high asking price a negotiation could not be finalized.
After the realization it was no longer possible to sell the ship due to her need for repair, the interested parties in Hamburg asked for restoration quotations from local yards.
At the same time, the association looked for funds for the transport, because of the vessels condition it has to be carried out by using a dock ship crossing the Atlantic & for the complete renovation of the structure & rigging. An attempt to raise the necessary funds from the Hamburg business community was not success.
2012 an offer to return the ship to Hamburg, where she was originally built, as a gift from the city of New York, was contingent upon raising donations in Germany to ensure the preservation of the vessel.
2015 it was declared that the quay in New York had to be vacated by the end of June, which would have meant the final end for the Peking at a junkyard.
November 2015 the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided to provide € 120 million of federal funds for a new, the third, large German Port Museum in the Hamburg port area. The main attraction would be the restored Peking. The "Maritim Foundation" purchased the ship for US$ 100.
September 2016 she was taken to Caddell Dry Dock, Staten Island to spend the winter.
July 2017, she was docked & transported at a cost of some €1 million, on the deck of the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship Combi Dock III across the Atlantic.
August, 2017, the Peking was transferred to the Peters Shipyard located at Wewelsfleth/Schleswig-Holstein for a three-year refurbishment at a cost of € 38 million.
The restoration included review of rigging, double floor steel plates, dismounting & remount of all masts, docking in dry-dock, renewal of the steel structure, removal of the cement that filled the lower three & a half mtr of the hull, painting, wood work & overall refurbishment. The ship spent about two years in a dry dock. The Peking was re-floated on September 2018 with primer paint Hull. Teak was reinstalled on deck.
Finally on September 7, 2020 the ship was "sailing", pulled by a tug boat in front & one tug boat in the back to assist the manoeuvring, to the German Port Museum at the Hamburg Harbour.
Four of the Flying P-Liners still exist today:
Peking; since September 2020 as museum ship in Hamburg, Germany.
Pommern; museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland.
Passat; museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde, Germany.
Padua; the only ship still active & today a school ship sailing as "Kruzenshtern" under a Russian flag & visits Hamburg every year during the Harbour Birthday.
….& last but not least,
....in the early 1980s I visited the "Peking" in New York, not a bit thought that I would live & work a few years in Peking/Beijing in the 2000s, even less, that I would see the renovated Peking, shining in its old splendour, sailing up the River Elbe to its new/old port in 2020.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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Hier hatten wir vom Dockland aus ein wunderschönen Ausblick auf ein kleines Feuerwerk.
Here we had a beautiful view of a small fireworks from the Dockland in Hamburg.
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I took this shot when I visited Hamburg for the "Blue Port" event. We were a group of crazy photographers who joined in the evening for a special harbour cruise. This cruise was organized by fotohaven.de and the FF-Fotoschule Hamburg. The trip started short after sunset. When we arrived at th (only) big container ship in the harbour at this time the blue hour just began. We had the opportunity to get very close to the ship and take some niche pictures.
Der Stephansplatz in Hamburg mitten in der Nacht. An den Lichtziehern auf der Straße kann man jedoch erkenn, dass zu dieser Zeit am Wochenende nicht nur Fotografen unterwegs sind.
Stephansplatz in Hamburg in the middle of the night. But you can tell by the light tracers on the street that not only photographers are on the road at the weekend on this time.
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Germany, Hamburg/Wedel, the tall ship "Peking", a steel-hulled four-masted barque. The Peking is back in its home port after more than 70 years & is to become the landmark of the new German Port Museum. "Peking" is the old German name for the city of "Beijing".
1852 Carl Laeisz entered the family business & turned the F. Laeisz Company into a shipping business. 1857 they ordered a barque & named her "Pudel", the nickname of Carl's wife Sophie. From the mid-1880th on it was customary that all their ships had names starting with "P", they became known as "the P-line".
Technical data of the "Peking"
Maiden voyage - May 16, 1911 to Chile
Type of ship - four-masted steel barque
Measurement - 3,100 GRT
Length - 115 mtr
Width - 14.40 mtr
Draft - max. 7.24 mtr
Mast height - 51 mtr above deck
Maximum speed -17 knots
Crew members while still in service
- 31 as cargo ship & 74 as sailing training ship
......👉…..the long voyage of the over 100 years old Peking
back to their home port.......👉…..👉…..👉…..👉…..👉
1911, the Peking, built for 680.000 Marks at that time & launched in February 1911 leaving Hamburg for her maiden voyage to Valparaiso in May of the same year.
She was particularly suitable for transport of nitrate/saltpetre from Chile to Europe. In the following few years she sailed to ports such as Valparaiso, Taltal, Talcahuano, Iquique & Mejillones, returning habitually home to Hamburg.
After the outbreak of World War the tall ship was confined at Valparaiso & remained in Chile for the duration of the war.
Afterward the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War stipulated that the Peking had to be handed over to the Kingdom of Italy as war reparation. Nevertheless, since Italy had no use for the ship, the Peking remained in London for the time being.
1923 F. Laeisz was able to re-purchase its ship for £ 8.500 & once again transporting nitrate/saltpeter from Chile to Europe, now also called ports in the Netherlands & San Antonio/USA.
1927, after a voyage to Chile, the Peking returned to Hamburg, where at Blohm & Voss Shipyard the poop deck, a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear part, was extended by ten metres, as the Peking was to be used from then on as a cargo carrying sailing training vessel. The ship now had room for 31 sailors & 43 naval cadets.
1932, she was sold for £6,250 to Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. in England, towed to Greenhithe & renamed Arethusa II, moored alongside the existing Arethusa I. In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, used as a children's home & training school. During World War II she served in the Royal Navy as "HMS Pekin".
1939, when World War II began, Arethusa was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, brought to Salcombe & got the name HMS PEKING, since there was already a ship with the name HMS Arethusa.
After the end of World War II, the ship was handed over back to the Shaftesbury Homes & Arethusa Training Ship Co. & returned to be named Arethusa, towed back to Upnor, continuing serving as a training ship until 1974.
1974, due to high maintenance costs, the old tall ship was retired, the organization decided to part with her & she almost returned to Hamburg at that time, but experts were of the opinion that she would not survive the tow to Hamburg.
The Arethusa II was sold for £ 70,000 to as "Peking" to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, where she remained for the next four decades.
1975, after a shipyard stay of a year the Arethusa was towed to New York by the Dutch tug "Utrecht" & got her original name Peking back, she was also painted in the original colours of F. Laeisz & served as a museum ship.
Unfortunately over the years however, the museum was not able to maintain the two large ships it owned & as a consequence the essential preservation & repair work was gradually more & more neglected. As the Peking was in poor condition, the upper deck had to be lined with plywood panels, decks in the lower holds were dilapidated & closed to the public.
However, the Seaport NYC did not see Peking as part of its long-term operational plans & was planning to send vessel to the scrap yard.
Beginning in 2002, members of the association negotiated with the museum for the return of Peking to its original home port of Hamburg. Initially, due to the museums high asking price a negotiation could not be finalized.
After the realization it was no longer possible to sell the ship due to her need for repair, the interested parties in Hamburg asked for restoration quotations from local yards.
At the same time, the association looked for funds for the transport, because of the vessels condition it has to be carried out by using a dock ship crossing the Atlantic & for the complete renovation of the structure & rigging. An attempt to raise the necessary funds from the Hamburg business community was not success.
2012 an offer to return the ship to Hamburg, where she was originally built, as a gift from the city of New York, was contingent upon raising donations in Germany to ensure the preservation of the vessel.
2015 it was declared that the quay in New York had to be vacated by the end of June, which would have meant the final end for the Peking at a junkyard.
November 2015 the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided to provide € 120 million of federal funds for a new, the third, large German Port Museum in the Hamburg port area. The main attraction would be the restored Peking. The "Maritim Foundation" purchased the ship for US$ 100.
September 2016 she was taken to Caddell Dry Dock, Staten Island to spend the winter.
July 2017, she was docked & transported at a cost of some €1 million, on the deck of the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship Combi Dock III across the Atlantic.
August, 2017, the Peking was transferred to the Peters Shipyard located at Wewelsfleth/Schleswig-Holstein for a three-year refurbishment at a cost of € 38 million.
The restoration included review of rigging, double floor steel plates, dismounting & remount of all masts, docking in dry-dock, renewal of the steel structure, removal of the cement that filled the lower three & a half mtr of the hull, painting, wood work & overall refurbishment. The ship spent about two years in a dry dock. The Peking was re-floated on September 2018 with primer paint Hull. Teak was reinstalled on deck.
Finally on September 7, 2020 the ship was "sailing", pulled by a tug boat in front & one tug boat in the back to assist the manoeuvring, to the German Port Museum at the Hamburg Harbour.
Four of the Flying P-Liners still exist today:
Peking; since September 2020 as museum ship in Hamburg, Germany.
Pommern; museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland.
Passat; museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde, Germany.
Padua; the only ship still active & today a school ship sailing as "Kruzenshtern" under a Russian flag & visits Hamburg every year during the Harbour Birthday.
….& last but not least,
....in the early 1980s I visited the "Peking" in New York, not a bit thought that I would live & work a few years in Peking/Beijing in the 2000s, even less, that I would see the renovated Peking, shining in its old splendour, sailing up the River Elbe to its new/old port in 2020.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
14 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
Germany, Wedel, Cruise Liner Quantum of the Seas passing on the river Elbe in Wedel, a suburb of Hamburg.
The third largest cruise ship of the world operated by Royal Caribbean International, visited Hamburg, for a last inspection at the dockyard of Blohm & Voss before sailing to Cape Liberty, New Jersey USA, with stopover in Bremerhaven & Southampton. Quantum of the Seas will spend its inaugural 2014-2015 season sailing with short trips from its homeport, before repositioning to China in May 2015. Beginning late June 2015, the ship will sail three to eight night itineraries year around from Shanghai to Japan & Korea.
The Quantum of the Seas is until today the largest cruise liner built in Germany, the construction time took one a half year. The ship is equipped with the latest state of art high-tech gimmicks. The "NorthStar" observation tower, located at the forward end of the top deck, will use a 7.1-tonne glass-walled capsule on the end of a 41-meter-long crane arm to lift groups of up to 14 guests up & over the edge of the ship, reaching heights of up to over 90 mtr above sea level, a Bar where the drinks are mixed by robots etc., etc., besides Restaurants, bars, fitness centre, Broadway shows & all other commodities of a large cruise liner.
The worldwide third largest cruise ship has a length of 348 mtr, 41,5 mtr wide & a draught of 8,5 mtr, cabins & suits are for 4180 to a max of 4900 guest, reaching a speed of 22 knots equal to almost 41 km per hour
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Das (zur Zeit) größte Container-Schiff der Welt zu Besuch im Hamburger Hafen.
The world's largest Container-ship visits Hamburg harbour.
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The Chilehaus is a classic of expressionist architecture in Hamburg's Kontorhausviertel (trading house quarter) - this shot is set up with my wife walking precisely along the shadow through the reflection. Martina had never visited Hamburg before even though she grew up in a town about three hours away by train.
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Germany, Wedel, the world’s actually largest containership “CSCL Globe” passing by the worldwide only ships greeting point before entering or leaving the harbour, since 1952. The vessel is leaving Hamburg Harbour at its inaugural voyage. Actually with a length of 400 mtr, a beam of 60 mtr & a draught of 16 mtr it is the world’s largest containership by cargo capacity & built within only 6 month in 2014 at the Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea. The ship has a capacity of 19.100 containers / TEU. At the time of its completion, the 17,2 mtr tall engine was the largest ship engine ever built to date. The main engine of CSCL Globe is MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2 type long-stroke & low-speed. The engine has maximum output power of 93,500 hp at 69 rpm, powering two four-bladed propellers. Designed to maximise fuel efficiency while reducing noise & carbon dioxide emissions, it permits the ship a speed of 20.5 knots - 38 km/h, the maximum speed reached during sea trials 22.0 knots - 41 km/h. The CSCL Globe is first of a series of fife, the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean & Arctic Ocean; these ships will start their service in 2015 between Asia & Europe, they also will visit Hamburg during their maiden voyage.
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Da hatten wir echt einen coolen Sonneaufgang, ein paar vereinzelte Wolken wären aber bestimmt auch nicht schlecht gewesen.
Ich wünsche euch allen einen schönen 4. Advent.
During the last 10 years or so I've frequently visited Hamburg, I've seen a growing number of homeless people.
I've checked it, and the information I can find say, that the number of homeless people have doubled in that period, so that there today are more than 2000 homeless in Hamburg.
Hamburg is one of the German cities with the highest proportion of rich and super-rich individuals. In 2017, 42,000 millionaires lived in the city. Some 2,000 earned more than €1 million [US$1.2 million] a year. According to the Federal Statistical Office, Hamburg is the German city with the most millionaires.
Some of you may recall that more than a year ago, I posted a photo of my late father's business card records, one of which is of a Chinese restaurant in Hamburg called China Restaurant Lau at Hein-Hoyer-Strasse 3 (see photo-comment below). My father himself visited Hamburg in the 1970s. He and Mr. Lau were friends for many years and when I was a kid, I remember Mr. Lau visiting Hong Kong every several years and dad would always meet up with him, bringing me along.
Hearing tales from Hamburg probably made me curious enough to follow my dad's footsteps over 40 years later!
Both Mr. Lau and my dad passed away some years ago, so I didn't go in to inquire. I highly doubted that Mr. Lau's children still own this little restaurant. Like many 2nd-generation immigrants, likely they became professionals.
This area is Reeperbahn, Hamburg's famous (or infamous) red-light district. Yep, it's a bit seedy here!
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They mysteriously rise from the Elbe as a reminder of the Hanseatic past of a city like Hamburg. These are the Blankenese Shipwrecks, and it's easy to spot them when you follow the Falkensteiner Ufer along the Elbe.
When we visited Hamburg in the Fall of 2021, these shipwrecks were the first thing we wanted to see. Mainly because it felt so surreal to know that there are ships in this state on the Elbe, not that far away from the city centre in Hamburg. And that you can easily spot them when you walk along the beach.
It's pretty easy to spot the Blankenese Shipwrecks in the low tide, but we imagine that at least one of them might disappear from sight when the water is a bit higher. So, if you want to see this bizarre sight, keep this in mind.