Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Hamburg, Germany

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Number of sights 32 sights
Distance 10.6 km
Ascend 214 m
Descend 203 m

Experience Hamburg in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in HamburgIndividual Sights in Hamburg

Sight 1: Alfredstraße

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The Alfredstraßenbrücke is a listed road bridge in the Hamburg district of Borgfelde. It runs over the tracks of the Hamburg–Lübeck long-distance railway line and the S-Bahn line 1 in the direction of Ohlsdorf and Poppenbüttel.

Wikipedia: Alfredstraßenbrücke (DE)

665 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Erlöserkirche Borgfelde

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The Church of the Redeemer in the Hamburg district of Borgfelde belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Georg-Borgfelde. It is the first new church building in Hamburg after the destruction of the Second World War. Today, it is mainly Christians from Ghana who celebrate their services in the Church of the Redeemer.

Wikipedia: Erlöserkirche (Hamburg-Borgfelde) (DE)

437 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Feuer- und Rettungswache Berliner Tor

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The main fire station Berliner Tor is a listed office building of the Hamburg Fire Brigade at the Berliner Tor in Hamburg-St. George.

Wikipedia: Hauptfeuerwache Berliner Tor (DE)

893 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations

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Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations Ajepbah / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations is a memorial in Hamburg, Germany, commemorating those who died due to their work with the use of radiation, particularly X-rays, in medicine. It was unveiled on the grounds of St Georg Hospital, on 4 April 1936 by the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft.

Wikipedia: Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations (EN)

831 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Domkirche Sankt Marien

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Domkirche St. Marien is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sankt Georg, Hamburg, Germany, and the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg. It was the first new Roman Catholic church built in Hamburg since the Reformation.

Wikipedia: Domkirche St. Marien (EN), Website

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Heilige-Dreieinigkeits-Kirche

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Heilige-Dreieinigkeits-Kirche Liberaler Humanist / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Holy Trinity Church, often called St. George's Church, is located in Hamburg's St. Georg district not far from the Lange Reihe, very close to Hamburg's main train station and, along with the Church of the Redeemer in Borgfelde, is one of the two preaching sites of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Georg-Borgfelde.

Wikipedia: Hl.-Dreieinigkeits-Kirche (Hamburg-St. Georg) (DE)

365 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Deutsches Schauspielhaus

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Deutsches Schauspielhaus Liberaler Humanist / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Deutsches Schauspielhaus, sometimes referred to as the Hamburg Schauspielhaus or Hamburg Theatre, is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany

Wikipedia: Deutsches Schauspielhaus (EN), Website, Url

454 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

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The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is a museum of fine, applied and decorative arts in Hamburg, Germany. It is located centrally, near the Hauptbahnhof.

Wikipedia: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (EN), Website

370 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

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Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, or Hamburg Central Railway Station in English, is the main railway station of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Opened in 1906 to replace four separate terminal stations, today Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service AG. With an average of 550,000 passengers a day, it is Germany's busiest railway station and the second-busiest in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris. It is classed by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 railway station.

Wikipedia: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (EN)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Ohnsorg Theater

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The Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg, Germany, is a stage for plays run after the British system of repertory theatre with up to six produced plays per season. Plays are exclusively performed in low German (Platt). They play a major role in spreading the knowledge and, in recent times, renewed appreciation of this minority language. Exceptions played in standard German (Hochdeutsch) are only made for television broadcasts. These broadcasts, by the regional Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and the nationwide ARD have made the theatre and its former main star Heidi Kabel popular across Germany and beyond.

Wikipedia: Ohnsorg-Theater (EN), Website

512 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869, 1921 (Kuppelsaal) and 1997, located in the Altstadt district between the Hauptbahnhof and the two Alster lakes.

Wikipedia: Hamburger Kunsthalle (EN), Website

687 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Thalia Theater

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The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia. Today, it is home to one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays per season. Current theatre manager is Joachim Lux, who in 2009/10 succeeded Ulrich Khuon.

Wikipedia: Thalia Theater (Hamburg) (EN), Website

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Hulbe-Haus

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Das Hulbe-Haus ist ein Büro- und Geschäftshaus in Hamburg, Mönckebergstraße 21, das unter Denkmalschutz steht. Es wurde 1910/11 nach Entwürfen des Hamburger Architekten Henry Grell (1870–1937) erbaut und ist nach seinem Bauherrn benannt, dem Buchbinder und Leder-Kunsthandwerker Georg Hulbe.

Wikipedia: Hulbe-Haus (DE)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Denkmal

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St. Peter's Church is the oldest parish church in Hamburg. It is named after the Apostle Peter and is one of the five main churches in Hamburg.

Wikipedia: Hauptkirche Sankt Petri (Hamburg) (DE)

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Bischofsturm

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The Bishop's Tower, or Bishop's Castle, is an archaeological site in the historic city center of Hamburg, Germany, containing the oldest known remains of a stone building in the city. The site includes the foundations of a circular tower and a well, originally believed to represent the 11th-century stone residence of Archbishop Adalbrand of Bremen. Later finds, however, disproved this theory and it is now considered to be part of a 12th-century defensive structure.

Wikipedia: Bishop's Tower (EN)

438 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Hamburger Börse

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The Hamburg Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Germany. It was founded in 1558 in the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Four different individual exchanges now exist under its umbrella: the Insurance Exchange, Grain Exchange, Coffee Exchange, along with the General Exchange.

Wikipedia: Hamburg Stock Exchange (EN)

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Hygieia-Brunnen

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The Hygieia fountain is located in the courtyard of the Hamburg City Hall. It was built in 1896, designed by the sculptor Joseph von Kramer (1841–1908) from Munich, a brother of the architect Theodor von Kramer. The fountain was built to commemorate the cholera epidemic of 1892, in which over 8000 Hamburg residents died. It is designated as a cultural monument with the object ID 12066.

Wikipedia: Hygieia-Brunnen (Hamburg) (DE)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal

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The Rathausmarkt in front of the Hamburg City Hall is a central square in Hamburg's city centre. Despite its name, the square never served as a regular marketplace ; however, it is still an important transport hub, a popular meeting place for tourists and a regular meeting place for political, sporting and cultural events.

Wikipedia: Rathausmarkt (Hamburg) (DE)

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Rathaus

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Hamburg City Hall is the seat of local government of Hamburg, Germany. It is the seat of the government of Hamburg and as such, the seat of one of Germany's 16 state parliaments. The Rathaus is located in the Altstadt quarter in the city center, at the Rathausmarkt square, and near the lake Binnenalster and the central station. Constructed from 1886 to 1897, the city hall still houses its original governmental functions with the office of the First Mayor of Hamburg and the meeting rooms for the Parliament and the Senate.

Wikipedia: Hamburg City Hall (EN), Website

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Denkmal für die Gefallenen beider Weltkriege

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Denkmal für die Gefallenen beider Weltkriege

The Hamburg Memorial, officially the Memorial to the Fallen of both World Wars, is a 21-metre-high stele made of shell limestone with the inscription "Forty thousand sons of the city gave their lives for you — 1914–1918" and the opposite relief Mourning Mother and Child.

Wikipedia: Hamburger Ehrenmal (DE)

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Alsterhaus

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The Alsterhaus is a five-story department store at Jungfernstieg 16–20 in Hamburg that opened in 1912.

Wikipedia: Alsterhaus (EN), Website

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Café Alex

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The Alsterpavillon is a striking building in Hamburg, in which there was a traditional café before the current restaurant business. The Alster Pavilion is located on Jungfernstieg on the Inner Alster.

Wikipedia: Alsterpavillon (DE), Tripadvisor, Website

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Hamburger Hof

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Hamburger Hof is the name of a building on Jungfernstieg in Hamburg and a shopping arcade located in it.

Wikipedia: Hamburger Hof (DE)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Alte Post

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The Alte Post in Hamburg is a building completed in 1847 on Poststraße in Hamburg's Neustadt district. It was built after the Great Fire of 1842 according to plans by Alexis de Chateauneuf out of the need to combine several of the post offices represented in the city in one house. The largest administrative building in the city at the time is considered an outstanding example of Hamburg's so-called post-fire architecture and is one of the oldest post office buildings in Germany before the founding of the unified Reichspost.

Wikipedia: Alte Post (Hamburg) (DE)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 25: Springer-Haus

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The Springer high-rise in Hamburg served as the headquarters of the Axel Springer publishing house from 1956 to 1967.

Wikipedia: Springer-Hochhaus (Hamburg) (DE)

383 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Görtz-Palais

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The Görtz-Palais is an originally baroque building at Neuer Wall No. 86 in Hamburg's Neustadt district.

Wikipedia: Görtz-Palais (DE)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Ellerntorsbrücke

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The Ellerntor Bridge is a bridge in Hamburg, Germany. The name comes from the historic Ellerntor, which formed the western entrance to the city at this point until the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Ellerntorsbrücke (DE)

634 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 28: Telemann-Museum

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The Telemann Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in Hamburg-Neustadt, Germany. It was founded in 2011 and is dedicated to the classical composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

Wikipedia: Telemann Museum (EN), Website

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 29: Brahms-Museum

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The Brahms Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in Hamburg-Neustadt, Germany. It is dedicated to the classical composer Johannes Brahms.

Wikipedia: Brahms Museum (Hamburg) (EN), Website, Website

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Jung mit'n Tüddelband

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An de Eck steiht'n Jung mit'n Tüdelband, also known under the titles An de Eck steiht'n Jung mit'n Trudelband and En echt Hamborger Jung is a Low German couplet, the history of which began in 1911 with the Wolf brothers.

Wikipedia: An de Eck steiht’n Jung mit’n Tüdelband (DE)

330 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 31: Millerntorwache

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The Millerntor was the western of the former Hamburg city gates. It was moved several times in the course of several city expansions and was most recently located at today's Millerntorplatz on the border between the Neustadt and the suburb of St. Pauli. It pointed to the former neighboring town of Altona/Elbe and was therefore also called the Altonaer Tor. From this last Millerntor the Reeperbahn led to the Altona Nobistor.

Wikipedia: Millerntor (DE)

301 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 32: Hamburg Museum

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The Museum for Hamburg History is a history museum located in the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. The museum was established in 1908 and opened at its current location in 1922, although its parent organization was founded in 1839. The museum is located near the Planten un Blomen park in the center of Hamburg. The museum is commonly reviewed among the museums of the city of Hamburg.

Wikipedia: Museum for Hamburg History (EN)

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