Deichstraße
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Deichstraße is the oldest remaining street in the Altstadt of Hamburg, Germany and a popular visitor attraction in the city.
Canal-side view of houses in Deichstraße.
Typical house in the Deichstraße.
Great fire of Hamburg
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The Great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroye
Deichstraße
…Nikolaifleet and close to the Speicherstadt, it now contains carefully restored 17th–19th-century houses, all that is left of the old harbour district. 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…
The Great Fire, 1842 painting by Peter Suhr
Nikolaikirche on fire
"View of the Conflagration of the City of Hamburgh", Illustrated London News, week ending 11 May 1842
Photograph from the roof of the Stock Exchange of ruins after the fire, by Hermann Biow, one of the earliest news photographs