These landmarks indicate that the scene is set on the western bank of the Außenalster and oriented directly towards the south, at approximately the location where the present-day "Straße Fontenay" reaches the shoreline. St. Peter's, St. Nicholas', and the workhouse were all destroyed during the Great fire of Hamburg in May 1842, 12 to 15 years after the painting was made. The wooden Lombard Bridge was replaced in the 1860s with the version known today, and in 1953, the parallel Kennedy Bridge (originally called the "Neu Lombardsbrücke") was built. It now obscures the Lombard Bridge from the painting's viewpoint.