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Freihafen Hamburg Review
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Freihafen Hamburg 
- Category: Transportation Sites, Bodies of Water
- Location: Altstadt
Fodor's Review:
Hamburg's Free Port, the city's major attraction, dates to the 12th century, when the city was granted special privileges by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa). One of these was freedom from paying duties on goods transported on the Elbe River. The original Free Port was where the Alster meets the Elbe, near Deichstrasse, but it was moved farther south as Hamburg's trade expanded. When Hamburg joined the German Empire's Customs Union in the late 1800s, the Free Port underwent major restructuring to make way for additional storage facilities. An entire residential area was torn down (including many Renaissance and baroque buildings), and the Speicherstadt warehouses, the world's largest block of continuous storage space, came into being between 1885 and 1927.
- U-bahn: St. Pauli Landungsbrucken (U-bahn)
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