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 Hamburg’s Speicherstadt or ‘Warehouse City’
Speicherstadt was built between 1885 and 1927. To make way for it, almost 20,000 people had to leave their homes on the islands of Kehrwieder and Wandrahm in the Elbe. Following the Customs Union between Hamburg and the German Empire, namely, space was needed for warehousing in the freeport. This enabled goods to continue being stored duty-free and processed there. Speicherstadt rests on several million oak beams. Since 2015 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage site, and only seldom used as warehousing space.
SPEICHERSTADT WAS PREVIOUSLY THE MAIN BASE FOR HAMBURG’S QUARTERMASTERS
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