Fleetschlösschen Building In Hamburg, Germany
The Fleetschlösschen is a historic building and belongs to the ensemble of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany. It is located at the junction of Brooktorkai / St. Annen Bridge and it has been a World Heritage Site Speicherstadt since July 2015. Until 1869, there was another building on the site of today’s Fleetschlösschen, St. Annen Chapel which had been built as a funeral chapel for the St. Annen cemetery.
Fleetschlösschen was built at the end of the 19th century in the neo-gothic style
Today’s Fleetschlösschen was built at the end of the 19th century in the neo-gothic style. It has direct water access; three pillars form the base of the building. At that time the area belonged to the free port and thus to the customs area. The Fleetschlösschen initially served customs as a service building to control the barges and to register the goods that were transported from the tall ships to the merchant’s storage floors. When the majority of the port was relocated to the southern side of the Elbe, the house was given a new use and was used by the Hamburg Fire Brigade as a fire station. After that, it served as a public toilet before it morphed into a breakfast place or coffee house for the warehouse workers. In 2006 it was restored and transformed into a restaurant.
