Block D of the Hamburg warehouse district (Speicherstadt). World Heritage. Seat of the Hamburg Dungeon, the model railway wonderland, the Kehrwieder Theater and various other companies.The Hamburg warehouse district is the world's largest historical warehouse complex, located in the port of Hamburg. It covers the area between Baumwall and Oberhafen. It has been a listed building since 1991 and has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since July 5, 2015 with the neighboring Kontorhausviertel under the name Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel with Chilehaus.
The Speicherstadt was built between 1883 and 1927 south of the old town on the former Elbe islands and residential areas of Kehrwieder and Wandrahm as a section of the Hamburg free port in three sections; the first section was completed in 1888. The chief engineer of the Hamburg construction deputation, Franz Andreas Meyer, was in charge of construction. He was assisted by the hydraulic engineering director Christian Nehls and the building director Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann as well as a consortium of 15 engineers, 24 architects and draftsmen. Georg Thielen designed around 30 of these at the Neuer Wandrahm, Am Sandtorkai, Auf dem Sande, Brook and Kehrwieder locations.
Since January 1, 2003, the Speicherstadt has been removed from the area of the free port (which was dissolved in 2013); on March 1, 2008, under administrative law, the new building area on the Großer Grasbrook was declared to be the HafenCity district in the Hamburg-Mitte district.The Speicherstadt stands on the approximately 26 hectare area (including the canal) of the former Elbe islands Kehrwieder and Wandrahm, over a length of about 1.5 kilometers and 150 to 250 meters wide in the north-eastern Hamburg harbor. It stretches from the Kehrwiederspitze and the Sandtorhöft in the west to the former Teerhof near the Oberbaumbrücke in the east. It is traversed by six canals:
Kehrwiederfleet begins between the Kehrwiederspitze and the Sandtorhöft, runs to the sand bridge (Auf dem Sande) and there goes over into the BrooksfleetBrooksfleet is the extension of the Kehrwiederfleet from Sandbrücke (Auf dem Sande), runs to the confluence of the Kleiner Fleet at the Neuerwegsbrücke and there it merges into the St. AnnenfleetSt. Annenfleet runs parallel to the street Am St. Annenufer, between Neuerwegbrücke and St. Annenbrücke, it is the extension of the Brooksfleet and merges into the HolländischbrookfleetDutch brookfleet Extension of the St. Annenfleet from the St. Annenbrücke to the confluence with the Wandrahmsfleet in front of the PoggenmühlenbrückeSmall fleet Connecting Fleet between Zollkanal, Wandrahmsfleet and Brooksfleet in the transition to St. AnnenfleetWall cream fleet runs from the Kleiner Fleet (Kannengießerortbrücke), flows in front of the Poggenmühlenbrücke with the Holländischbrookfleet to the Zollkanal at the level of the Oberbaumbrücke
The Speicherstadt is separated from the old town center by the former Dat Deep waterway, formed by the inland port, the customs canal and the upper port, and in turn connected by eight bridges. To the south it is separated from the old port area and the current urban development project of various HafenCity districts by the streets Am Sandtorkai, Brooktorkai and Oberbaumbrücke. This street course corresponds roughly to the old Hamburg fortifications, whose upstream city moat was converted into the harbor basins of the Sandtorhafen, the Brooktorhafen and the Ericusgraben during the port development.
