Elbphilharmonie, HafenCity and Speicherstadt Tour

In a narrower sense, HafenCity as a project name refers to the approximately 157-hectare area on the Großer Grasbrook, which formerly belonged to the free port. By the beginning of the 2030s, it is expected that residential units for up to 14,000 people[2], up to 3000 hotel rooms, and jobs for up to 45,000 people, primarily in the office and service sector, will be created on the site. Furthermore, up to 10,000 pupils and students, as well as around 50,000 customers and tourists per day, are expected, so that after completion, over 120,000 people are anticipated to bring the district to life daily. It is currently one of the largest inner-city urban development projects in Europe.

For example, to evacuate the area in the event of a storm surge, the Kibbelstegbrücke has been built through the historic Speicherstadt to behind the dike line of Hamburg's city center.

HafenCity University Hamburg – University for Architecture and Urban Development (HCU)[3] – is a state university. The HCU combines all aspects of building and urban development in design and planning, engineering and natural sciences, as well as humanities and social sciences.

Typical canal with state-of-the-art development in HafenCity, overlooking the Maritime Museum and Elbarkaden

Grasbrookpark is a small neighborhood park on Grasbrookhafen in HafenCity in the Hamburg-Mitte district. It is located in the Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook quarter between the Überseequartier and the Marco-Polo-Terrassen.

The Historic Ship Harbor in the Heart of Hamburg
Sandtorhafen is the historic ship harbor of the Stiftung Hamburg Maritim.
The pontoon facility belonging to HafenCity Hamburg GmbH is, in keeping with the historic significance of Sandtorhafen, a place of directly tangible cultural history from the outset.
Historic ships, harbor facilities, and work equipment are the tangible evidence of Hamburg's maritime history. To preserve, restore, and make them publicly accessible is the goal of the Stiftung Hamburg Maritim.
Sandtorkai, today Hamburg's oldest quay wall, was already restored in 2002 with great effort and in accordance with monument protection requirements. Three historic access bridges provide access to the pontoon facility in front of it, and on Kaiserkai on the south bank of the harbor, three restored general cargo cranes are set up – reminiscences of the place's history!

The Hamburg Speicherstadt is the world's largest historic warehouse complex, located in the Port of Hamburg. It encompasses the area between Baumwall and Oberhafen. Since 1991, it has been a listed monument and, on July 5, 2015, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel with Chilehaus, alongside the neighboring Kontorhausviertel.

The Miniatur Wunderland (stylized spelling) in Hamburg is the largest model railway layout in the world.[1] It is located in the historic Speicherstadt and is operated by Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg GmbH. The layout covers 1499 square meters, with a total of 15,715 kilometers of track (as of August 2019)[2][3] on a 1:87 scale (H0 gauge; corresponding to approximately 1,367 track kilometers in reality), on which around 1,040 digitally controlled trains operate.

Fleetschlösschen is a historic building and belongs to the ensemble of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg. It is located at the intersection of Brooktorkai/St.-Annen-Brücke, is a listed building, and has been part of the Speicherstadt World Heritage Site since July 2015. In the Denkmalliste Hamburg, the building is listed as a former toilet building. Its current use is as a café and pub in a former snack bar.

Spicy’s Gewürzmuseum is a private museum, founded in 1991, in Hamburg. With 152,000 visitors in 2007, it is one of the city's most popular museums.

The four-story building was built between 1905 and 1907 as part of the third construction phase of the Speicherstadt (1899 to 1912) and is one of the most famous landmarks and oldest buildings in the historic warehouse complex.

The Elbphilharmonie (also known as "Elphi")[1][2] is a concert hall in Hamburg, completed in November 2016. It was planned with the goal of creating a new landmark for the city and a "cultural monument for all".[3][4][5] The 110-meter-high building in the HafenCity district is located on the right bank of the Norderelbe at the tip of Großen Grasbrooks, between the mouths of the Sandtorhafen and Grasbrookhafen harbor basins. It was built incorporating the shell of the former Kaispeicher A (built in 1963). A modern superstructure with a glass facade was placed on this base, reminiscent of sails, water waves, icebergs, or a quartz crystal. The location at Kaiserhöft is characterized by the former industrial use of the harbor and the Neo-Gothic brick architecture of the Speicherstadt.

The Kehrwieder (Plattdeutsch Kehrwedder) is one of the former islands in the Hamburg city area (the western part of the historic Speicherstadt) and belongs to the HafenCity district. Geographically, it lies in the tidal splitting area of the Niederelbe and is the northern Grasbrook. In 1532, it was incorporated into the fortified city together with the neighboring island of Wandrahm.

The Überseebrücke is a facility of the Port of Hamburg with a covered pedestrian bridge, which leads from the flood protection facility of Vorsetzen street to a pontoon in the Hamburg Niederhafen, at the level of the former Jonashafen, east of the St.-Pauli-Landungsbrücken.

The German production premiered in Hamburg. Since December 2, 2001, the musical has been shown at the Theater im Hafen Hamburg, and on January 14, 2014, the 5000th performance was celebrated. As the theater is also accessible via a direct ferry service, some of the passenger ferries there are painted in the musical's colors or were even named after characters from the show (like Nala and its sister ship Rafiki).