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Speicherstadt andKontorhaus district withChilehaus

The Speicherstadt was originally constructed between 1885 and 1927 by the “Hamburger Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesell-schaft“ (HFLG) on a 1.1 km long archipelago in the Elbe river (reconstructed in part between 1949 and 1967).Constructed in three building phases, the Speicherstadt remains the largest cohesive and uniform ensemble of warehouses in the world to this day. Using new technology and materials, it is a unique representa-tion of functional and sophistically designed maritime indust-rial architecture in the style of European historicism.As a result, the Speicherstadt is of high international import-ance in the development and history of architecture. With its composition of red brick buildings in neo-Gothic architectural forms, its streets, waterways and bridges that give the Spei-cherstadt its unmistakeably unique image, this area of Ham-burg is a formative part of the entire cityscape.This “city of storage“ includes 15 large warehouse blocks that were very progressive in terms of their technical facilities and equipment, as well as six decorative ancillary buildings and a network of roads, canals and bridges.

img. 1 façade view in the Speicherstadt

In 1972 the Convention concerning the Protection of the Wor-ld Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted creating the well-known World Heritage list protective schema. In January 2019 the World Heritage list accounted to 1092 sites (845 cultural, 209 nature and 37 mixed sites in 167 states). The site Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage list on 5 July 2015. The World Heritage Committee based its decision on the belief that the Speicherstadt and the Kontorhaus District are “an out-standing example“ of an ensemble and its buildings which “illus-trates significant stages in the history of humanity“.The Outstanding Universal Value of the two mono-functional but complementary areas is reflected in the opulent historic archi-tecture and its connecting network of roads, canals and bridges of the Speicherstadt and in the modern red-brick architecture of the office buildings for port-related dealings in the Kontorhaus District.

The Kontorhaus district is a cohesive, densely built area fea-turing pure office complexes that were built from the 1920s to the 1950s in direct neighbourhood to the Speicherstadt to house the businesses‘ offices engaged in port-related activi-ties.The Kontorhaus District’s massive office buildings stand out for their expressionistic brick-clad architecture and their unity of function with the Chilehaus as “flagship”.In particular with the Sprinkenhof and Chilehaus the architec-tural forms achieved an almost unsurpassable degree of virtuo-sity in terms of design and craftsmanship.Furthermore, the Chilehaus by Fritz Höger is regarded as an icon of architectural expressionism with its tip reminiscent of a ship‘s bow and characteristic detailing of its façades.

img. 2 St. Annen square at the World Heritage Day 2018 img. 3: view to the East over bridges in the Speicherstadt img. 5: Chilehaus staircase

img. 4: Sprinkenhof

KONTORHAUS DISTRICT