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"Ouch, my neck !" (I don't own a wristwatch *ggg*)
This is from a building when there still was money to make buildings nice, with lots of ornaments. It stands in the Speicherstadt Warehouse District which has the following background: In 1866, Bismarck established the customs union giving all German states a standard customs frontier. The entire city area of Hamburg lay outside the customs frontier of the German Confederation - reference was made to the birth certificate of the port of 1189, which , of course, confirmed the city's exemption from customs duties. The population benefited from the consumption of duty-free goods and trade profited from transhipment, but customs duty had to be paid on Hamburg's products transported into inland Germany as foreign goods. This could not continue, particularly as Bismarck urged that Hamburg accede to the customs union. The following solution was found: Hamburg separated a 16 km2 freeport area off from the city area, thus taking free trade out of the city. That meant, however, that the warehousing sector, the transhipment,and office workers, who had so far been distributed in the entire city area, had henceforth to find a place in this free trade area that was to be created, best close to the centre and not far from the stock exchange. It was thus decided to demolish the Brooks and Wandrahm quarter and build the Speicherstadt. Initially 20.000 people were resettled from 1883.

No postprocessing - just the small frame.

Please look at the other photo's of this series: #2, #3, #4