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An aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans
P P O O R R T T O O F F T TA A S S T T E E ■ ■
Construction of the Speicherstadt – or Warehouse City - is a special chapter in the history of Hamburg. Without coffee, this would have been quite different. Then as now, the Hanseatic City was the world’s larg- est trading centre for coffee beans. By the end of the 19th century, immense space was urgently required for handling these. 1883 brought the go-ahead for building today’s UNESCO world heritage site.
Where coffee, tea and spices were once stored, there are now mainly offices, cafés and restaurants. Yet in the tast- er warehouses – the “Genuss-Speicher” of Block R on St Annenufer, it is as if time has stood still. Where coffee was already being stored and processed from 1896, to- day stands the Burg family’s coffee roasting museum.
For Jens Burg, back in the 1970s
the business with the beans fired a
passion for collecting that has produced
more than 8,500 exhibits illustrating the coffee tradition. A tour of the taster warehouses offers visi- tors a coffee trail leading from “Harvesting all over world, via the Hanseatic trading counters, to coffee houses from grandma’s days”.
Coffee’s immense variety is also reflected in the comprehensive range of the museum’s attractions: A time trip through the exhibition can be supple- mented on request by tastings and seminars, while the roasting plant, its shop and the café all invite vis- itors to linger.
FAMILY-RUN BURG ROASTING PLANT IN SPEICHERSTADT THROWS OPEN THE WHOLE WORLD OF COFFEE
Kaffeemuseum Burg
St. Annenufer 2, 20457 Hamburg
Opening times:
Daily 10:00-18:00 https://kaffeemuseum-burg.de/
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