Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus
"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."
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1467
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