After visiting the London Sprucken and the old elbow tunnel, it's now time for a walk
to the Speicherstadt, the old warehouse district of the port of Hamburg.
If you make a walk through the Speicherstadt you suddenly realize why those red brick facades are very typical for Hamburg.
This whole area here was built at the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century and it is the largest timber pile founded warehouse district in the whole world.
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So as the name warehouse district says those warehouses were used as warehouses and how does that work?
So you see all these canals here and when a big ship came to Hamburg with a lot of goods in it, small boats drove to this big ship and they carried all the goods and brought them here to these houses where they pulled up those goods and brought them into the houses.
And you see this construction at the top of each house. Maybe you know this also from other cities like Amsterdam where they also did this.
Nowadays the whole logistics system changed and only a few of those warehouses are still in use as warehouses for carpets or for coffee.
Most of them are now used as restaurants, as office buildings or as museum buildings so you find a lot of museums here in the Speicherstadt which are wealth of wizards for example the Hamburg Dungeon or the Miniatur Wunderland.
This is a model railway attraction and it's the world's largest of its kind. And if you are more into all these harbour stuff and ships maybe you should go to the Maritime Museum which is also very close to this place where we are standing now.
The new quarter of Hamburg named Hafen City will be my next destination. Until then I'm looking forward to your feedback via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, e-mail or directly on the blog.
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