Hummerbuden, Cultural heritage monument in Heligoland, Germany.

The Hummerbuden are a row of small, brightly painted wooden buildings that line the waterfront on the island of Heligoland in northern Germany. The structures stand close together, forming a compact ensemble that is listed as a protected monument.

Before World War II the lobster sheds stood scattered and irregular across the island; plans to group them at the harbour date from 1937. The present row was built in 1954–1955, after the wartime destruction and the resettlement of Heligoland, to a design by Hamburg architect Georg Wellhausen, with the colour scheme by Johannes Ufer. The sheds lean against rubble-concrete retaining walls below the Mittelland slopes.

The name Hummerbuden means lobster sheds, after the lobster fishermen who kept workshops here. Since the 1990s the row has been marketed as a tourist mile; today the huts hold snack bars, pubs, cafés, galleries and souvenir shops. Numbers 38 and 39 house the museum association, and the Heligoland registry office holds weddings there; number 35 belongs to the Jordsand association, which informs about its seabird protection work.

The Hummerbuden can be seen from the outside at any time of year and are easy to reach on foot from the ferry landing. Since Heligoland has no cars, a short walk along the waterfront is enough to see the full row of buildings from different angles.

The projecting ridge purlins on the gable ends were used as crane beams for the upper floor, which served as a storage loft. The colour scheme of the post-war sheds came from Johannes Ufer, while the design was by Hamburg architect Georg Wellhausen. The huts lean at the back against retaining walls of rubble concrete set into the scree slopes of the Mittelland.