From Veddel to PEKING: A walk through migration, port labour and Grasbrook
The map marks the existing German Port Museum at Schuppen 50A (1), PEKING’s berth (2), the S Veddel station area (3) and the Lagerhaus G area at Dessauer Ufer (4). The numbers identify locations; they do not indicate a sequence. Neither the exact meeting point nor the walking route is shown. The light dashed line marks the district boundary, not a development-project boundary. The light connector lines link markers and labels; they are not routes.
Map correction, 5 October 2026: The orientation map and its explanation have been updated. The original article text and its subject-matter source review date remain unchanged.
On Friday, 16 October 2026, the German Port Museum is offering a guided walk lasting around three and a half hours from Veddel to PEKING. It starts at 12:30 pm at Veddel S-Bahn station, Wilhelmsburger Platz exit. The programme connects the history of migration and port labour with the former Lagerhaus G and with present-day urban development on Grasbrook. Event details
From Veddel via Lagerhaus G to the port museum
According to the museum, the first part of the walk explores Veddel and the district’s close links with migration and work in the Port of Hamburg. The group then continues to the former Lagerhaus G at Dessauer Ufer, where the tour addresses the history of forced labour in the port. The final section leads to the German Port Museum and the four-masted barque PEKING.
The planned redevelopment of Grasbrook is explicitly part of the programme as well. The museum says the tour will consider the changes that the new district may bring for Veddel and for the museum itself. This gives the event a direct connection to current development on Kleiner Grasbrook rather than treating the historical locations in isolation. Lagerhaus G background
Time, tickets and accessibility
Participants are asked to meet 15 minutes before the start at Veddel S-Bahn station. The walk is scheduled to finish at the German Port Museum at about 4 pm. Tickets cost €15, including admission to the museum and PEKING, and the group is limited to 20 people. Booking is handled through the museum’s online shop.
The museum recommends that participants are comfortable walking longer distances. PEKING is currently not accessible without barriers, and walking frames, wheelchairs, prams and buggies cannot be taken on this tour. Sturdy footwear is required aboard the ship, and visitors boarding PEKING must be at least 1.20 metres tall. The guided walk is conducted in German.
When the source was checked on 27 September 2026, the event was still bookable. Availability can change, so ticket status and practical arrangements should be checked again shortly before the event.
Sources checked on 27 September 2026.
Cartography: ChatGPT for kleiner-grasbrook.net, 5 October 2026 (article derivative of V0.5). Land, water and administrative boundary: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Agency for Geoinformation and Surveying (LGV), ALKIS simplified and ALKIS administrative boundaries Hamburg, adapted; Data Licence Germany – Attribution 2.0. Land/water base grasbrook-alkis-2026-09-22-v1, EPSG:25832; retrieval recorded in the manifest: 22 September 2026, with individual record dates up to 16 September 2026. District boundary 117 from the GeoJSON archive supplied by Thomas on 4 October 2026, layer app_stadtteile_EPSG_25832.json. No uniform survey date; upload and image dates do not establish current construction progress. The administrative boundary is not the Grasbrook development-project boundary. Museum and PEKING: documented OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, via Mapcarta, unchanged from V0.5. S Veddel: Wikidata Q7917951, CC0, station area. Lagerhaus G: object-location coordinates on Wikimedia Commons, structured data CC0; area point, not an entrance. No photograph reproduced.