Kaispeicher B
The Kaispeicher B is a listed former warehouse in the port of Hamburg at the northwestern end of the Elbtor quarter of today's HafenCity . He is the oldest surviving building in Hamburg memory is, but outside the protected World Heritage Speicherstadt . Today the International Maritime Museum Hamburg is located there .
Construction and original use
The Kaispeicher B was built in the years 1878/1879, before the establishment of the free port and about ten years before the construction of the Speicherstadt, on behalf of JW Boutins according to plans by the architects Wilhelm Emil Meerwein and Bernhard Hanssen in the style of the Hanover School . The facade is decorated with colored glazed bricks and natural stones and structured with neo-Gothic gables, bay windows and pointed arches. Like the Speicherstadt, the building consists of a load-bearing inner frame made of wood and steel columns with load-bearing outer walls. The warehouse has nine floors.
Tobacco, rum, wine, grain and tea were stored. It was initially a combined cell storage or silo storage for grain storage and floor storage for general cargo . In 1894 the eastern part of the building was converted into a silo storage facility. The chimney, which belonged to a steam engine that drove a bucket elevator to transport the grain , was also removed . The name "Kaispeicher B" was created in 1890 to differentiate it from Kaispeicher A , when the city of Hamburg bought the warehouse. The warehouse was supplied via its west side, from Magdeburg harbor , by barges and ships. On the north side at Brooktorhafen , the goods were loaded into small ships and distributed further. The port railway had a stop on the ground floor, the entrance gate was bricked up later.
Until 2003 the building, owned by HHLA, served as a warehouse for Gebr. Heinemann . Their company headquarters ("Heinemannspeicher"), built in the 1970s, adjoins to the east and can be reached via two connecting bridges through the fire wall on the east side. On the south side, the Kaispeicher is now connected to motorized traffic via Koreastrasse (previously: Magdeburger Strasse). It can also be reached on foot via the León Bridge , a kinked, 60-meter-long pedestrian bridge built in 2007 by Parisian architect Dietmar Feichtinger , which runs from Dar-es-Salam-Platz across the western end of Brooktorhafen to the north side of the Building leads. To the west over the Magdeburg harbor the Busanbrücke leads to the Störtebeker Ufer .
- Historical views
View from the south (Magdeburg harbor)
View from northwest with chimney
Conversion and use as a museum
In 2000 the building was listed as a historical monument . Starting in 2004, the Kaispeicher B was converted by the Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung with funds from the City of Hamburg in order to accommodate the private International Maritime Museum Peter Tamms , which has a heritable building right . The plans for the renovation and expansion come from the Hamburg architect Mirjana Markovic . In particular, the facade and the floorboards were extensively renovated. The listed building now offers more than 12,000 m² of exhibition space. There is also a bookstore on the ground floor; the rooms of the museum are also used for private events.
after the renovation (still without León Bridge)
foyer
Showroom with ship models
literature
- Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. The International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. Its founder and founder Peter Tamm . Koehler , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7822-1055-3 , pp. 46 ff .
- Michael Berndt: The Kaispeicher B in the port of Hamburg . ( geschichtsspuren.de ).
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 36 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E