Germany, Hamburg -- The Elbe River (II)
Continued
Deichstraße -- Dam Road
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In the Elbe
embankment road, there is a different style of ancient residential community in
Hamburg. In 1842, the dam road in the back of the house No. 42, the sudden
onset of a fire, the city's 1/3 of the houses burned down. Monument entrance to
record the incident. Worth a visit is the waterway corridor, which is a narrow
passage between residential and water. There are now called "typical"
Hamburg Hotel.
Alter Elbtunnel -- Centennial tunnel under the Elbe
River
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Next to the bridge pier, we find the entrance
of the Elbe tunnel, a "bunker" style rotunda. Into the door and found
the entrance of this fortress-style, in fact, a lot of "elevator" -
to take the elevator down to the ground, into the tunnel.
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Photo by Bo. W
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The "elevator" walls, there are several good tunnel design,
builders sculpture. Door introduction, lists the main data of this tunnel:
Built in 1907-1911, 426.5 meters long, 23.5 meters deep.
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We took the elevator
down to the ground more than 20 meters, into the tunnel. Tunnel is not wide,
six meters in diameter, can only be used by pedestrians and bicycles. At the
beginning of the last century to build this tunnel, the car has not spread yet.
In 1975, at the bottom of the river Elbe in Hamburg and the construction of a
new tunnel car can pass.
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Plastered tiles on the
walls of the tunnel, reportedly spent a total of 800,000 tiles. Every section
is also embedded with a tiled pattern, the pattern is mostly fish, starfish and
other aquatic animals. Those should be particularly fired. We walk in this
century tunnel, feeling breathe air from a hundred years ago.
This is truly "living" antique.
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More than 400 meters in
length, a few went to the opposite side, and then take the elevator to rise to
the surface. Out of the ground, we are already the south bank of the Elbe --
Südportal
Alter Elbtunnel. Area name is Steinwarder, the tunnel under construction at the
time, it is the main port area and the location of the shipyard in Hamburg.
Remember: Stop metro station Landungsbrücken
The
300-year-old open-air market -- Hamburg Fish Market
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| Photo by Bo. W |
We went looking
for the famous St. Pauli fish market along the Elbe, which has 300 years of
history. It is unique in Northern Germany fish market. We know that the fish market
is only open on Sundays. But we still want to look at it. When we came closer the
door closed, through the glass door to the inside to visit it, strip long table
crowded, but very quiet.
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Year before Christmas, we're here. The weather was cold,
snowing, but the people here are really more. Now
nobody here.
Remember: Metro S1 at Reeperbahn
stop. Or walk 10 minutes along the Elbe.
Summary: Many scenic Elbe edge of
history, only to be separated from the Port of Hamburg for the left and right.
So you can use the two days to visit.
