The Pagoda Warehouse is a former granary in Neustadt in Holstein in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein.
The building got its name because its shape is reminiscent of a Far Eastern pagoda. The warehouse, along with the Kremper Gate, is a landmark of the city of Neustadt in Holstein. The storage facility was built on the Neustadt inland waterway and is located next to the bridge that spans the connection to the port and the Baltic Sea.
The pagoda store is a rectangular, single-story half-timbered building made of red brick on an area of approximately 20 by 14 meters. It was built on a foundation of carved boulders. The attic has a hipped roof covered with red roof tiles, which is structured by three rows of surrounding roof hatches and two further landings. The roof is more than twice as high as the ground floor. The roof hatches open onto the attics behind, which served as drying floors for grain. If necessary, they could be opened.
The warehouse was built in 1830 by the carpenter Carl Friedrich Trahn (1806–1888) on behalf of the Neustadt merchant Adam Jansen. Jansen wanted a storage facility with the best possible options for drying grain before it was shipped. The building's design, drawn up by Carl Friedrich Trahn, convinced Adam Jansen. He commissioned Trahn to build it, which met with considerable disapproval from the local master carpenters because Trahn was not yet a master carpenter.
The pagoda store was placed under monument protection in 1972 as a cultural monument of particular importance. In 1991 the pagoda store was extensively renovated. Since then it has been used as an office and commercial building.
Source: Wikipedia