"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." -http://whc.unesco.org
Postcard 1
The lone UNESCO Site from Germany inscribed in 2015.
Thank you so much Gabi for the generosity in sharing this postcard with me!
Postcard 2
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