Hamburg Speicherstadt
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
UNESCO-listed warehouse district associated with shipping trade.
The historic warehouse district of Hamburg’s port, built between 1883 and the 1920s on timber-pile foundations along the Elbe, the largest integrated warehouse complex in the world built on oak piles. The red-brick Gothic Revival storehouses held coffee, tea, spices, and other goods in bond. The Speicherstadt, together with the adjacent Kontorhaus district, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015. It now contains museums and the Internationales Maritimes Museum nearby.
Source: Speicherstadt, Hamburg, built from 1883; UNESCO World Heritage Site (with Kontorhaus district), inscribed 2015.