Alter Hafen Düsseldorf - Ehemaliger Sicherheitshafen
Small reconstructed harbor basin from the seventeenth century, once a refuge for ships from floods and ice.
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This guide to the Alter Hafen in Düsseldorf's Old Town starts on a June morning in twenty twenty-four, with a crane, a drained basin and an old Rhine eel-fishing boat that had puzzled passers-by for decades. It reaches back to the seventeenth century, when ships needed somewhere to hide from floods and drifting ice, and to Napoleon-era planners who had other ideas. Stand at the water's edge, within sight of the Zum Schiffchen brewery on Hafenstrasse.
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