Overview of the Warehouses

The overall view over the warehouses, in Hamburg

The overall view over the warehouses offers a superb perspective over the façades of the Speicherstadt of Hamburg. The Hamburg audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this viewpoint, ideal to appreciate in detail the architectural richness of the warehouse district.

The perspective over the façades of the Speicherstadt

From this viewpoint, you enjoy a superb overall perspective over the warehouses of the Speicherstadt, which allows to appreciate in more detail the richness of their façades. From here, the gaze takes in the spectacular alignment of these red brick buildings, high and slender, that line the canals and are reflected in them. You distinguish better the details of the neo-Gothic architecture: the ornate gables, the turrets, the arches, the brick ornaments and the multiple openings by which the goods were formerly hoisted with the help of winches. Some of these warehouses advance directly onto the water, creating striking images. This overall view reveals all the coherence and the beauty of this unique district, designed as a true town dedicated to storage and trade, and allows to measure the scale of the maritime trade that made the fortune of Hamburg. An ideal belvedere over the Speicherstadt, the overall view over the warehouses is a contemplative stop of the discovery of the town.

What to see

Here you enjoy a superb overall perspective over the warehouses of the Speicherstadt, the spectacular alignment of the high and slender red brick buildings lining the canals and being reflected in them, whose neo-Gothic details you appreciate: ornate gables, turrets, arches, brick ornaments and openings by which the goods were hoisted. The overall view over the warehouses reveals the beauty of the Speicherstadt. It is a contemplative stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The overall view over the warehouses is discovered from the bridges and the quays of the Speicherstadt, in the heart of Hamburg, reachable on foot. It is an open-air viewpoint, freely accessible. The view is particularly beautiful by day as at nightfall, when the warehouses are illuminated.

What can you see from the overall view over the warehouses of Hamburg?

The spectacular alignment of the red brick warehouses of the Speicherstadt, high and slender, that line the canals and are reflected in them; there you appreciate the details of the neo-Gothic architecture, ornate gables, turrets, arches and openings by which the goods were hoisted.

Where is this overall view over the warehouses of Hamburg?

On the bridges and the quays of the Speicherstadt, in the heart of Hamburg, in Germany.