Warehouse district in Hamburg Added to UNESCO World Heritage List
08/07/2015.
[Hamburg] Germany
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO has approved the request of Hamburg for the "Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus" is included on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. The committee has recognized the outstanding universal value of the district offices and urban complex storage and shipping of Hamburg from the early 20th century. Hamburg now has its first world heritage site.
Hamburg's warehouse district has been given world heritage status. Image courtesy Hamburg Marketing GmbH/Christian Spahrbier.
Night vision. Hamburg's warehouse district has been given world heritage status. Image via Flickr.- danielmennerich.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District. Image courtesy Hamburg Marketing GmbH, author.- Christian Spahrbier.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District. Courtesy Hamburg Marketing GmbH, author.- Ingo Bölter.
Speicherstadt; view over the Kehrwiederfleet canal from the east, old Speicherstadt police station in the background. Image via Department for Heritage Preservation Hamburg picture library, author.- Nicolai Wieckmann.
Kontorhausviertel; Chilehaus, eastern tip and southern facade from the southeast. Courtesy via Hamburg Marketing GmbH, author.- Wieckmann, Nicolai.
Chilehaus. Courtesy Hamburg Marketing GmbH, author.- Andreas Vallbracht.
Kontorhausviertel; Chilehaus; southern façade, southern Fischertwiete passage with view into the central inner courtyard from the south, exterior. Image @Department for Heritage Preservation Hamburg, Picture library, author.- Wieckmann, Nicolai.
Speicherstadt;ancient winch operator's house (Wasserschlössen), block X and block W (canal facing façades), and Wandrahmsfleet canal from the northeast. Image via © Department for Heritage Preservation Hamburg picture library, author.- Nicolai Wieckmann.
Kontorhausviertel; Sprinkenhof; 1st construction phase, southern façade from the southwest, partial view. Image courtesy via © Department for Heritage Preservation Hamburg, Picture library, author.- Sabine Ganczarsky
Kontorhausviertel; Sprinkenhof; 1st construction phase, ornament of the northern façade, exterior view, detail. Image courtesy via © Department for Heritage Preservation Hamburg, Picture library, author.- Wieckmann, Nicolai.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District. Image © HHLA.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District. Image © HHLA.
New Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Author © Raimond Spekking.
The Speicherstadt, located in Hamburg (Germany) is the biggest complex of stores of the world. It possesses great historical value and occupies more than 26 hectares in the core of the Port of Hamburg. 17 buildings, with marked Gothic style of red brick, and more than 300,000 sqm are dedicated to area of storage. Some products of such high value as coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, obacco and, in the last decades, the oriental carpets, have been protected inside the building. Besides its strong architectural points, there are other places of interest such as Hamburg Dungeon, and Miniatur Wunderland Speicherstadtmuseum- the largest miniature railway in the world -make Speicherstadt has become one of the main tourist attractions in Hamburg and it has been added to the World Heritage List of Unesco.
Since 1920 to 1930 the first continental Europe business district was built and one of the first high-rise building under the cane of Fritz Schumacher. With the style of german expressionism, the Chilehaus was built with the remains of the bow of a boat.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus (Germany).- Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the centre of the port city of Hamburg. Speicherstadt, originally developed on a group of narrow islands in the Elbe River between 1885 and 1927, was partly rebuilt from 1949 to 1967. It is one of the largest coherent historic ensembles of port warehouses in the world (300,000 m2). It includes 15 very large warehouse blocks as well as six ancillary buildings and a connecting network of short canals. Adjacent to the modernist Chilehaus office building, the Kontorhaus district is an area of over five hectares featuring six very large office complexes built from the 1920s to the 1940s to house port-related businesses. The complex exemplifies the effects of the rapid growth in international trade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
