Fleetschlösschen
The Fleetschlösschen is a historic building and belongs to the ensemble of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg . It is located at the Brooktorkai / St.-Annen-Brücke intersection, is a listed building and has been part of the Speicherstadt World Heritage Site since July 2015 . In the list of monuments Hamburg, the house is run as a former toilet block. Today's use is as a café and pub in a former coffee hatch .
The St. Anne's Chapel, built in 1566 as a burial chapel for the St. Anne's cemetery , stood on the site of today's Fleetschlösschen until 1869 .
This burial place belonged to the parish of St. Katharinen and took in the victims of the plague epidemic of 1564, who found no more space in the inner city cemeteries. In 1812 the cemetery was closed. In 1869 the chapel and cemetery had to give way to the widening of the access roads to Sandtorkai and the construction of the warehouse district in 1883. In 1888 even Kaiser Wilhelm II is said to have paid a visit to the opening of the first construction phase.
Today's Fleetschlösschen was built at the end of the 19th century as the second building in the Speicherstadt complex in the neo-Gothic style typical of the ensemble directly on the canal. It has direct water access; three pillars form the base of the building.
At that time the area belonged to the free port and thus to the customs area . The Fleetschlösschen initially served the customs as an office building to check the barges and to register the goods that were transported from the tall ships to the store floors of the merchants.
When most of the port was relocated to the southern side of the Elbe, the house was given a new use and was used by the Hamburg fire brigade as a fire station. The building later served first as a toilet block, then as a coffee hatch for the dock workers.
The light-colored stones in the facade are evidence of repairs after bombing in World War II, which destroyed the St. Anne's Bridge and numerous granaries.
In 2004 the warehouse complex "Speicherstadt" was made possible by the relocation of the free port border under customs law and thus civil use of the building. Since the same year the building has been used as a “Fleetschlösschen” restaurant. In the restaurant hangs a large historical clock, which used to be on the opposite administration building of the Office for Electricity and Port Construction (today Altes Hafenamt Hamburg ) of today's Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). It was saved by the tenant Christian Oehler when it was demolished. In 2017 the building was renovated and reopened at the beginning of 2018 as a branch of Daniel Wischer GmbH & Co. KG.
Web links
- Official website , "Fleetschlösschen Hamburg by Daniel Wischer"
- Info Speicherstadt at Hamburgtourist.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quarter magazine for Speicherstadt, Hafencity and Katharinenviertel ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 24, 2016
- ↑ Fleetschlösschen , Yelp, accessed on 24 July 2016th
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 40.2 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 52.5" E