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WalKing ToUR sPeiCHeRsTaDT
2011 visitors will not be able to walk across Zollkanal
and see the memorial plaque commemorating Hamburg‘s
integration into the customs zone of the German
Reich under Emperor William II on October 29, 1888.
Interrupt your walk with a very worthwhile detour to
MiniaTUr WUnDErLanD, the world’s largest model
train installation, at Kehrwieder 2 in Block D. A miniature,
mind-boggling world of the superlative: over 800
trains with a total
of about 10,000
cars chug along
miles of tracks
through exact miniature
replicas of
countrysides populated
with over
Miniatur Wunderland presents Hamburg
and the world on a scale of 1:87.
200,000 miniature
figures. Apart from
miniature replicas
of America, Switzerland and Scandinavia, the Elbe
riverbank and the Speicherstadt are featured here, too.
Continue down the street Brook under the Kibbelsteg-
Brücken to Pickhuben and take a peek at the romantic
indoor courtyard tucked away in warehouse Block H
and just waiting to be discovered. From here cross
the Neuerwegsbrücke and continue down to the
warehouse marked Block O and its entrance hall, an
elaborately designed merchant building dating back
to the Wilheminian era and whose picturesque bay
windows resemble a fairy-tale castle. Return to Neuer-
The Speicherstadtmuseum at its old
location – soon opening in the warehouse
building marked Block L.
The Kibbelsteg-Brücken lead
through the warehouse complex
to the HafenCity.
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