Quarter · Hamburg, Germany

Speicherstadt

The largest warehouse district in the world, red brick on oak piles, built in the 1880s for coffee, tea, spices and carpets. Best walked at dusk when the canals go still.

Speicherstadt is in Hamburg, and this is Hamburg — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 980 km across and 350 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 53.543°N, 9.988°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Journeys that stop here

Scandinavia to Central Europe

Copenhagen to Budapest, all by rail

21 days

Arctic to Mediterranean

The full length of Europe, 69°N to 38°N

34 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Speicherstadt, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Quarter
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 53.543°N, 9.988°E
In: Hamburg