Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus World Heritage Site

Official name
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus | UNESCO
Country
Germany | Map
Continent
Europe
Location
53.5455° Lat, 9.9994° Lon | Map
Code
1467
Time Zone
Europe/Berlin (CET, +0100)
Current Time
Category
Cultural
Description
Inscribed 2015. 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 m 2 ). 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.