Deichstraße (lit. "

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street") is the oldest remaining street in the

Altstadt ''Altstadt'' is the German language word for "old town", and generally refers to the historical town or city centre within the old town or city wall, in contrast to younger suburbs outside. '' Neustadt'' (new town), the logical opposite of ''Alt ...

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and a popular visitor attraction in the city. Deichstraße dates back to the 14th century; it was first mentioned in 1304. Located adjacent to

Nikolaifleet Nikolaifleet is a canal in the Altstadt of Hamburg, which was the original branch of the Alster The Alster () is a right tributary of the Elbe river in Northern Germany. It has its source near Henstedt-Ulzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, flows somewh ...

and close to the

Speicherstadt The Speicherstadt (, literally: 'City of Warehouses', meaning warehouse district) in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is ...

,Deichstraße
Hamburg.de it now contains carefully restored 17th–19th-century houses, all that is left of the old harbour district.''Fodor's Germany'', New York: Fodor's/Random House, 2009,
p. 520
Jörg Albrecht, ''Hamburg, englisch'', Marco Polo Insider Tips, Ostfildern: Mairs, 2003,
p. 35
The Great Fire of 1842 broke out in Deichstraße 42 and destroyed many of the original buildings, but spared the southern end of the street spreading - driven by the wind - mostly northeastwards. Today, Deichstraße –along with Neustadt's Peterstraße– contains some of the oldest buildings in the city, including the oldest warehouse, at Peterstraße 27, built in 1780.

References

Sources

* Wolfgang Rudhard. ''Das Bürgerhaus in Hamburg''. Das deutsche Bürgerhaus 21. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1975.

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