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View of Deichstraße and the Nikolaifleet from the Holzbrücke

View of Deichstraße and the Nikolaifleet from the Holzbrücke

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View of Deichstraße and the Nikolaifleet from the Holzbrücke

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Siegfried LG

November 7, 2017

The so-called "wooden bridge" over the Nicolaifleet, now made of stone, offers a beautiful view of the back of the old office buildings on Deichstrasse. On the Deichstrasse you can walk through a narrow passage over the pontoons and in turn get new views and rest areas with or without restaurants. The adjoining Katharinenviertel also has some houses worth seeing.

The Nikolaifleet is a canal in Hamburg and used to be the main estuary of the Alster into the Elbe. This is where the development of the port of Hamburg began in 1188, and goods were transhipped here on the waterways to the warehouses up until the 19th century. With the emergence of the Speicherstadt, this part of the port lost its importance.

After the Hamburg fire, which broke out on May 5, 1842 in a house on Deichstraße near Nikolaifleet, Hamburg's city center was extensively redesigned, among other things to make room for a new town hall and the town hall market. At the end of the 19th century, the main outflow of the Alster was diverted into the Alsterfleet, which is navigable throughout. At the southern end of the Nikolaifleet between Holzbrücke and Hoher Brücke is the last surviving section of the canal with the typical old Hamburg buildings. The narrow, high canal fronts of the outer dyke houses on Deichstrasse are diagonally opposite those of the four surviving storage facilities on Cremon.

The Nikolaifleet is exposed to the tidal range of the Elbe and partially dries up at low tide.

Source:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaifleet

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Siegfried LG

July 21, 2018

From the wooden bridge you can see both sides of the canal. A point of attraction, the old preserved town houses of the Deichstrasse.

"In the Deichstraße there are houses that shaped large parts of Hamburg's city center before the destruction of "old Hamburg" in the Great Fire, the Second World War and demolition measures from 1950 to 1980, the so-called old Hamburg town houses. These combined living, working and also storage under one roof. The last baroque Hamburg merchant's house built as an outer dyke house is on Deichstrasse on the water side of the protective wall. Built in 1686, it combined office, residential and warehouse buildings under one roof. After the Great Fire of 1842 - which began on Deichstrasse - changed The urban image of Hamburg was increasingly changing, since living and working were increasingly separated: the merchants who lived in town houses such as those in Deichstrasse moved to the suburbs outside the city center and came to work in the city, primarily in so-called Kontorhäuser, which served as new type of house should soon characterize Hamburg's inner city.

The old town houses were converted into pure multi-party residential buildings, with shops mostly moving to the ground floors. Due to the aforementioned destruction of old buildings in downtown Hamburg, fewer and fewer houses have been preserved in recent decades.

As early as 1909, a complete hallway from the house at Deichstrasse 53 was moved to the Museum of Hamburg History, where it now forms a separate room. When the ensemble on Deichstraße was to be demolished in favor of a street extension, resistance developed among citizens, which led to the founding of the association Rettet die Deichstraße in 1972. The association was able to preserve and renovate the houses by collecting donations.

Today, the Deichstraße is a tourist attraction of great appeal. Cafes and restaurants in the houses reinforce this situation. Narrow corridors between the houses lead to the water side, where a pontoon is installed."

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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deichstrasse

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December 19, 2023

The Nikolaifleet is a fleet in Hamburg and used to be the main estuary of the Alster into the Elbe. The development of the port of Hamburg began here in 1188, and goods were transferred to the warehouses here by water until the 19th century. (Source: Wikipedia)

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