World Heritage Hamburger Speicherstadt: monument on oak piles – Tagesspiegel

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The Unesco Hamburg’s warehouse district and the Kontorhausviertel added to its World Heritage List. The warehouse district, built 1883, is a unique ensemble of buildings from the era of industrialization. Hamburg rejoices.

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Germany has a 40th World Heritage Site. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Sunday the Hamburg warehouse district and the Kontorhausviertel in the list of Unesco World Heritage Site on. A second chance gets the job of the Naumburg Cathedral and the high medieval landscape domination in Saale-Unstrut region. Hamburg’s Mayor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said he was pleased “extraordinary” about the success. “We are aware of the great honor conscious and like to take now the responsibility to protect and the placement of that heritage true.”
In its decision emphasized the World Heritage Committee that the Kontorhausviertel unique way the consequences of rapid international trade growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries symbolized. For Kontorhausviertel includes the Chile house, which was built from 1922 to 1924, designed by Fritz Höger. The tapered, backsteinexpressionistische building housed temporarily the “mirror” editorial. Hoger, whose works include the Anzeiger-Hochhaus in Hanover and the church on the Hohenzollerndamm in Berlin, is still controversial. The architect was friends with avant-garde artists, but was enthusiastic about everything “Nordic”. He already joined 1932 the NSDAP, announced his close collaborator Osip Clear wine, because he was a Jew, and provided plans for the Hamburg Gauforum.
Together with the warehouse district, the ensemble is now the 40th World Heritage Site in Germany. The warehouse district has been built on oak piles on an archipelago in the same and consists of 15 large brick warehouses in Neo-Gothic architecture. It was built from 1883 as a section of the Hamburg free port and is recognized worldwide as the best preserved warehouse complex from the age of industrialization. The increase in container throughput, the Warehouse District has its original function of interim storage largely lost.

Today it houses over an area of ​​630 000 square meters in addition to numerous carpet dealers and offices also Speicherstadtmuseum, a Customs Museum and a spice museum. Since 2000, the largest model railway in the world is housed there.
The UN cultural organization Unesco had on Saturday taken at its annual conference in Bonn eleven other sites on the World Heritage List and on Sunday next to Hamburg’s warehouse district another four. The new World Heritage sites also includes the Botanical Gardens in Singapore as the first World Heritage Site of the Southeast Asian country.

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In addition, include new World Heritage in the vineyard parcels French Burgundy and the Champagne vineyards, the ramparts of the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in Turkey, as well as sites in Iran, China, South Korea and Mongolia. The Moravian settlement Christiansfeld in Denmark is now World Heritage Site. It was founded in 1773 as a colony originating from Herrnhut in Saxony Lutheran denomination.
Fail is an application of the Viking culture, in which Germany was involved. ( with AFP and AP)