The Pegelturm marks the eastern end of the 700m long Landungsbrücken facility. It indicates the level of the river Elbe. The number indicates 29.5 decimeter.

Not sure whether there will be any usable yield - but IF urban gardening THEN vines.

One of the bridges linking mainland with the Speicherstadt warehouses - Hamburg/Speicherstadt is the second largest storage place of persian carpets after Teheran!

Hamburg's Landmark is the bell tower of the Saint Michaels Church, called "the Michel". It has been rebuilt 1912 after a fire. The clockwork is actually the largest in Germany, the dial is 8m and the minute hands are 4.9m and weigh 150kg...
Oh, and if you wondered: This is the 1:87 scale version - seen in the world's largest model railroad center "Miniatur-Wunderland" ,

St Michael church - the nave has been hit by bombs and has been rebuilt 1952.

The so called "Chilehaus" complex. Built on purpose into the corner of two merging streets.

The Kontorhaus District has a lot of interesting architecture to offer.

ugly weather covering the city's memorial for the WW victims, the Kleine Alster River, the Binnenalster lake and the Rathaus Square (left to right).

The entrance of the Town Hall. It's not about the small dealings. In Hamburg, it's big business!

Nice artwork and a bit different from the usual stuff, as seen in the Town Hall

A nice way of getting rid of maritime scrap metal. Add some polish and place it on a square.
The placard reads that this propeller was in use on the deep sea tug "Fairplay XI".

Paddle Steamer "Mississippi Queen" was possibly not built for such water conditions...

Interesting perspective - the one of a container sitting low in a ship's belly and being lifted ashore...

The ship is actually the Cosco Shipping Taurus, a new built container shuttle (delivered 2018, on it's maiden cruise!) capable of carrying more than 20'000 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Units).

Every meter of this building costs 8 Million Swiss Francs. Despite its cost it did not leave me in awe, unfortunately.

How much could they possibly have saved? Installing straight colums, maybe? Using straight glass? Putting the visitors deck on top of the building, maybe? Without lamps then?

Canal cruise between the warehouse blocks. Yes this is a 2 storey bridge.

Ok, speaking of architecture. The city's riverfront is taking shape (HafenCity etc.) and the architects - inspired by the Opera in the vicinity - sometimes tend to overdo it. Maybe you just let the Scandinavians do modern architecture?

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Hamburg (preview)

There are better ideas than visiting Hamburg in early March. But my trip had to do with a concert. It’s cold, nature is still asleep and the weather is likely cold and grey. On the upside there’s not too many tourists yet. The 2.5days were by far not enough to visit all places (but botanical garden, zoo, parks, etc. would have been a waste of time anyway) because the city has so much to offer. Plus Finkenwerder ;-) ! What it can’t offer on the other side is a nice pittoresque old town – but, there’s many individual architectural highlights!
Enjoy some pics from Germany’s 2nd largest city and Europe’s largest non-capital city!