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Hamburg UNESCO WHS: Kontorhausviertel (Commercial District)

By HL fotoeins on 28 May 2018

On 5 July 2015, UNESCO awarded World Heritage status to two sites in Hamburg: the Speicherstadt (Warehouse District) and the Kontorhausviertel (Office Building District). In the latter are two important brick buildings: Chilehaus and the Sprinkenhof, representative of the construction in the late 19th- and early 20th-century.

The Chilehaus was built by Fritz Höger for client Henry Sloman from 1922 to 1924 in the Kontorhausviertel as a prime example of German expressionist architecture using hard-fired brick. Höger undertook the project for Hamburg merchant and banker Sloman who made his fortune in importing nitrates from Chile. Built entirely to serve and complement the functions of the warehouses in neighbouring Speicherstadt, the Kontorhausviertel was the first dedicated office- and commercial-district on the European continent.

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I made the photos above on 26 June 2010 and 3 December 2015 with a Canon EOS6D mark1. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie on fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-biH.