Hamburg - Warehouse District

(Local Name: Speicherstadt) On the Brookinsel, to the south of the Zollkanal, lies the Hamburg Speicherstadt (freeport area), built at the end of the 19th C. Here are found continuous lines of brick-built warehouses up to seven stories high, used for the storage of tobacco, coffee, rum, dried fruit and spices, as well as optical, mechanical and electronic apparatus, Oriental carpets, etc.