100 Sights in Hamburg, Germany (with Map and Images)

The Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany, is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg – within the HafenCity quarter – and was built from 1883 to 1927.

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Built in 2000, the Hamburg Dungeon is a tourist attraction from a chain including the London Dungeon and Berlin Dungeon. It is the first of this brand to be built in mainland Europe. It provides a journey through Hamburg’s dark history in an actor led, interactive experience.

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Dessauer Ufer was a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Nazi Germany, located inside the Port of Hamburg on the Kleiner Grasbrook in Veddel. It was in operation from July 1944 to April 1945. Inmates were mostly used for forced labour at rubble clearing and building in the Hamburg port area.

Wikipedia: Dessauer Ufer (EN)

Fußball-Club St. Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St. Pauli, is a German professional football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. The team currently competes in the 2. Bundesliga, but will compete in the Bundesliga in 2024–25 season following promotion.

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The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial commemorates the more than 100,000 victims of National Socialism who were imprisoned here between 1938 and 1945 and of whom 50,000 died on the site of the former Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg.

Wikipedia: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (DE)

The Harvestehuder Weg is a street in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel, which runs along the foreshore of the Outer Alster from the Alte Rabenstraße to the Klosterstern over a length of two kilometers through the districts of Rotherbaum and Harvestehude. With numerous free-standing villas from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the middle of large, partly park-like gardens, it is considered a boulevard of the Hanseatic city and, along with the Elbchaussee, a testimony to the wealth of Hamburg's merchants and entrepreneurs during the Wilhelminian period.

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Hamburg's memorials to the victims of National Socialism include a large number of monuments, memorials, facilities, plaque programmes and institutional facilities that commemorate the victims of National Socialism and the destruction of the war. In their entirety, they can be understood as "city memory" for the period from 1933 to 1945. Since the collapse of National Socialist rule, more than 150 memorials have been established in Hamburg. The first was inaugurated during a memorial event at the Ohlsdorf cemetery at the end of October/beginning of November 1945, it was the urn of the unknown concentration from the Auschwitz extermination camp. 15,000 people took part in the funeral service. This first urn became part of the Memorial to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution in 1949, a stele with 105 vessels containing the ashes of victims and soil from 25 concentration camps.

Wikipedia: Hamburger_Gedenkstätten_für_die_Opfer_des_Nationalsozialismus (DE)

The Jewish Cemetery Altona, also known as the Jewish Cemetery Königstraße or, referring to the Sephardic part of the cemetery, the Portuguese Cemetery on Königstraße, was established in 1611 and closed in 1877. It is considered one of the most important Jewish burial grounds in the world because of its size of 1.9 hectares, its age and the large number of preserved gravestones.

Wikipedia: Jüdischer Friedhof Altona (DE), Website

The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany.

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Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn.

Wikipedia: Peking (ship) (EN)

In the history of Hamburg, Hamburg's French period refers to the period under French occupation and incorporation into the French Empire in the years from 1806 to 1814, parallel to the so-called French period in other German areas.

Wikipedia: Hamburger_Franzosenzeit (DE)

The Sternschanzenpark, usually called Schanzenpark, is a twelve-hectare, semi-public park with the 60-metre-high Schanzenturm, formerly the largest water tower in Europe, which has been home to a hotel since 2007, on a 28-metre-high hill in the district of Hamburg-Altona.

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Johannes Bugenhagen, also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, was a German theologian and Lutheran priest who introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Among his major accomplishments was organization of Lutheran churches in Northern Germany and Scandinavia. He has also been called the "Second Apostle of the North".

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The Church of St. Nicholas was a Gothic Revival cathedral that was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The original chapel, a wooden building, was completed in 1195. It was replaced by a brick church in the 14th century, which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1842. The church was completely rebuilt by 1874, and was the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876. It was designed by the English architect George Gilbert Scott.

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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.

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The Christianskirche in the Hamburg district of Ottensen is a Baroque building from 1738; the congregation belongs to the church district of Hamburg-West/Südholstein of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Since 1803, the grave of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock has been located in the churchyard, which is why the Palmaille-Elbchaussee street running south past it over a length of about 270 m was given the name Klopstockstraße in 1846 and the name Klopstockkirche has now become common for the church.

Wikipedia: Christianskirche (Ottensen) (DE), Website

The Alsterpark runs along the banks of the Alster around the Outer Alster and includes the areas of Schwanenwik, the Eduard-Rhein-Ufer and the Alster foreland. Starting in the south, the park leads east through the Hamburg districts of St. Georg, Hohenfelde, Uhlenhorst and Winterhude, from the Krugkoppelbrücke west through the Alster foreland in Harvestehude and Rotherbaum to the Kennedy Bridge at the transition to the Inner Alster.

Wikipedia: Alsterpark (DE)

Hannoversche Bahnhof was a former terminus station in Hamburg, Germany. It was opened in 1872 and was located on the Großer Grasbrook on the site of today's Lohseplatz. Until it was replaced by Hamburg Central Station in 1906, it was the terminus for all passenger trains crossing the Elbe from the south near Hamburg.

Wikipedia: Hamburg Hannoverscher Bahnhof (DE), Website

The synagogue on Bornplatz in Hamburg's Grindel district was inaugurated in 1906 and was one of the largest synagogues in Germany. It served as the main synagogue of the German-Israelite Community (DIG). In the immediate vicinity, the building of the Talmud Torah School was erected in 1911.

Wikipedia: Bornplatzsynagoge (DE)

The Theater im Hafen Hamburg is a musical theatre of the Stage Entertainment Group, which opened in 1994. It is located on Hamburg's Elbe island of Steinwerder, opposite the Landungsbrücken and next to the Theater an der Elbe, which opened in 2014. Since December 2, 2001, the musical The Lion King has been performed there.

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The Curiohaus is an office and event building built as a community house in Hamburg in the district of Eimsbüttel, district of Rotherbaum. It was built between 1908 and 1911 according to a design by the architects Johann Emil Schaudt and Walther Puritz at Rothenbaumchaussee 11–17 for the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System and named after the founder of this society, Johann Carl Daniel Curio. Since 1948, it has been the property and headquarters of the Hamburg branch of the Education and Science Union (GEW). In October 1997, the building as a whole and with its fixed furnishings, the front garden pedestals, the lamps and the oval of the courtyard garden was placed under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Curiohaus (DE), Website

Hammer Park is a listed public park in the district of Hamm in the east of Hamburg. In its present size and form, it was designed between 1914 and 1920 by the then Hamburg horticultural director Otto Linne. However, it goes back to an older and much larger private landscaped garden, the roots of which date back to the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Hammer Park (DE)

The Fuhlsbüttel Correctional Facility, colloquially known as Santa Fu, is a correctional facility that was originally located in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, but after border shifts is now in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. As an all-male institution, it is responsible for the closed prison system and preventive detention. The deportation detention was transferred from the Fuhlsbüttel prison to the Billwerder prison; In the meantime, this is no longer enforced there.

Wikipedia: Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel (DE)

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)

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)

Hamburg Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in the Bergedorf borough of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. It is owned and operated by the University of Hamburg, Germany since 1968, although it was founded in 1825 by the City of Hamburg and moved to its present location in 1912. It has operated telescopes at Bergedorf, at two previous locations in Hamburg, at other observatories around the world, and it has also supported space missions.

Wikipedia: Hamburg Observatory (EN), Website

The Norderreihe cemetery, or Wohlers Park because of its location on Wohlers Allee, is a former cemetery in Altona-Altstadt. It was inaugurated in 1831, and the last burial took place in 1945. It has been a listed building since 1979 and was also designated as a public park of about 4.6 hectares.

Wikipedia: Friedhof Norderreihe (DE)

Fink II was the code name of the U-boat bunker located on the Rüsch Canal on Finkenwerder, which was built from 1941 to 1944 on the grounds of the Deutsche Werft. It was blown up in 1945. Today the Fink II submarine bunker memorial is located there.

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The Stintfang is a 26-metre-high hill on the right (northern) bank of the Elbe in Hamburg, Germany. It is a remnant of the former Hamburg ramparts and an important landmark in Hamburg's cityscape due to its exposed location above the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken. The youth hostel located on the Stintfang and the viewing platform in front of it with a view of the port of Hamburg are particularly well-known.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis in Hamburg-Altona is a neo-Gothic church from 1873. It belongs to the parish of Altona-Ost in the church district of Hamburg-West/Südholstein of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Since 1998, its premises have also been home to the Kulturkirche Altona, a non-profit cultural organizer and landlord of the church space on behalf of the Altona-Ost parish.

Wikipedia: St. Johannis (Altona) (DE)

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)

The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo in Stellingen, Hamburg, Germany. The collection began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr. (1810–1887), a fishmonger who became an amateur animal collector. The park itself was founded by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. in 1907. It is known for being the first zoo to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, rather than barred cages, to better approximate animals' natural environments.

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The Hamburg State Opera is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since 2015, the current Intendant of the company is Georges Delnon, and the current Generalmusikdirektor of the company is Kent Nagano.

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St. Petri und Pauli is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hamburg-Bergedorf and is considered the most important historical building in the district, along with Bergedorf Castle. As the oldest church in the central town of the Vier- und Marschlande, it shows a rich artistic design.

Wikipedia: St. Petri und Pauli (Hamburg-Bergedorf) (DE), Website

The main Protestant church of St. Trinitatis was built in the years 1742–1743 in the Baroque style of the time in the Holstein town of Altona, which was incorporated into Hamburg in 1938. After being destroyed in the war, the building was restored in the 1960s and was given a modern interior.

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The Altona Harbour Railway Tunnel is a disused, 961 m long railway tunnel in Hamburg-Altona. It connected the easternmost track at Hamburg-Altona station with the tracks of the former Altona Harbour Railway and the Altona Fishing Harbour Railway below the Geest slope on the Elbe. It was reopened for viewings.

Wikipedia: Schellfischtunnel (DE)

The Altonaer Balkon is located in Hamburg's Altona-Altstadt district in the Altona district. The green space is part of a series of Elbe parks that are located high above the Elbe on the approximately 27-metre-high geest slope and which line up like a chain in a westerly direction, starting on the Promenade Bei der Erholungs in the St. Pauli district.

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The Falckenberg Collection is a collection of works of modern and contemporary art compiled by the lawyer and entrepreneur Harald Falckenberg (1943–2023) in Hamburg. The private collection is ranked among the "200 best in the world" by the international trade journal Artnews. Since 2011, it has been part of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

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St. Sophien is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd, Weidestraße 53. The church, which opened in 1900, was donated by the shipowner Wilhelm Anton Riedemann. The naming may go back to the common first name "Sophie" of Riedemann's wife and their daughter; officially, the church bears the patronage of Sophia of Rome. The building is a listed building.

Wikipedia: St. Sophien (Hamburg-Barmbek) (DE), Website

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)

The Islamic Centre Hamburg is one of the oldest mosques in Germany and Europe and is abbreviated IZH. Established in Hamburg, in northern Germany, in the late 1950s by a group of Iranian emigrants and business people.

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The Bismarck Monument in Hamburg is a memorial sculpture located in the St. Pauli quarter dedicated to Otto von Bismarck. It is one of 240 memorials to Bismarck worldwide and is the largest and probably best-known of these Bismarck towers. The monument stands near the jetties of Hamburg port on the Elbhöhe, today a local recreation area. The architect was Johann Emil Schaudt; the sculptor was Hugo Lederer.

Wikipedia: Bismarck Monument (Hamburg) (EN)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Pauli is located in the Hamburg district of Altona-Altstadt on the street Pinnasberg. Until the boundaries of the district were changed in 1938, the church belonged to the district of St. Pauli, for which it had given its name in 1833.

Wikipedia: St.-Pauli-Kirche (Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt) (DE), Website

The pilot house Seemannshöft (Seemannshöft pilot station) is a brick building with a dominant signal and observation tower built in 1914 at the entrance to the port of Hamburg. There are the Hamburg harbor pilots, the working group of Hamburg ship -mounted tender and the nautical headquarters of the port. In the past, the ship registration service was also based there.

Wikipedia: Lotsenhaus Seemannshöft (DE)

Dialogue in the Dark is an awareness raising exhibition and franchise, as well as a social business. In Dialogue in the Dark, blind guides lead visitors in small groups through different settings in absolute darkness. Through this visitors learn how to interact without sight by using their other senses, as well as experience what it is like to be blind. The exhibition is organized as a social franchising company, which offers the exhibition as well as business workshops, and has created jobs for the blind, disabled, and disadvantaged worldwide. The exhibition aims to change mindsets on disability and diversity, and increase tolerance for “otherness”. More than 9 million visitors have gone through an experience in the Dark and thousands of blind guides and facilitators find employment through exhibitions and workshops.

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The Archäologisches Museum Hamburg is an archaeological museum in the Harburg borough of Hamburg, Germany. It houses the archaeological finds of the city of Hamburg and the neighbouring counties to the south of the city. It focuses on northern German prehistory and early history as well as the history of the former city of Harburg. The museum is also home to the cultural heritage landmarks commission of the city of Hamburg and the adjacent district of Harburg in Lower-Saxony and thus supervises all archaeological undertakings in the region.

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The Holy Trinity Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hamburg district of Hamm. It was built in 1956/57 according to a design by Reinhard Riemerschmid as a successor to the Hammer Church from 1693, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The clinker-brick concrete building with its symbolic forms is one of the most important church buildings of post-war modernism in northern Germany and has been a listed building since 2002.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Hamburg-Hamm) (DE), Website

The Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Market Square in Hamburg-Niendorf is the second sacred central building in the Hamburg city area, after the Gnadenkirche in the Karolinenviertel, and is considered the most important Baroque building in the city after the Michel.

Wikipedia: Kirche am Markt (Hamburg-Niendorf) (DE)

The Köhlbrand Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Hamburg, Germany, which connects the harbor area on the island of Wilhelmsburg between the Norderelbe and Süderelbe branches of the Elbe river with motorway 7. It bridges the Süderelbe, here called Köhlbrand, before it unites with the Norderelbe again. The bridge was opened on 9 September 1974.

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The Hamburg School Museum is a museum for the school history of Hamburg. The museum is run by the Ministry for Schools and Vocational Education and Training (BSB), which operates it as a branch of the State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development (LI). The museum was opened in 1991 in the former Rudolf Roß School in Neustädter Straße and has been located at Seilerstraße 42 in the St. Pauli district since 2006. The school museum is also visited by Hamburg school classes as part of their lessons.

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Hamburg is an equestrian statue in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The statue with four allegorical figures, created by Johannes Schilling, was erected on the Rathausmarkt in 1903, but has been in the ramparts at the level of the Justice Forum since 1930.

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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.

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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.

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The Church of Maria Grün, actually St. Mary's Assumption, in Hamburg-Blankenese is a Catholic parish church from the time of the Weimar Republic. It lies on the southeastern edge of the district at the intersection of Schenefelder Landstraße and Elbchaussee, not far from the district border with Nienstedten on an area that formerly belonged to the village of Dockenhuden. The Hirschpark and the formerly independent settlement of Mühlenberg separate the church from the Elbe.

Wikipedia: Maria Grün (Hamburg-Blankenese) (DE)

The Sander Dickkopp is a water tower in Hamburg-Lohbrügge at Richard-Linde-Weg 21f. Its Low German name derives on the one hand from its shape and on the other hand from its location in the forest area of Sander Tannen. From the viewing platform on the roof, you can see as far as Hamburg and far into the Vier- and Marschlande on a clear day.

Wikipedia: Sander Dickkopp (DE)

Landhaus Mahr is a thatched brick house at Hohenbergstedt 21 in Hamburg's Bergstedt district. It was built in 1911/1912 according to designs by the architects Hermann Distel and August Grubitz and has been a listed building since 1989. From 1982 to 2011, it was inhabited by a residential community, Wohnmodell Kritenbarg e. V. The building has been empty since 2011.

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The Roman Catholic Church and Parish of St. Joseph is located in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek. It is dedicated to Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, the Mother of God. The neo-Romanesque building is located on Witthöfftstraße, near the Wandsbek market square, opposite the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Hamburg-Wandsbek) (DE), Website

From September 1944 to February 1945, the Neugraben subcamp in Hamburg-Neugraben-Fischbek was one of the 86 subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp for female prisoners. De jure, however, it was located on the site of today's Hamburg-Hausbruch, as it began in 1951 at the point east of Falkenbergsweg.

Wikipedia: KZ-Außenlager Neugraben (DE)

The Finland House in Hamburg is a high-rise building completed in 1966 that housed the Finnish Consulate General, among other things. The centrally arranged, narrow foot on which the building rests is striking. The golden lion on a red background, attached to the upper right corner of each side of the façade, is a simplified representation of the Finnish national coat of arms.

Wikipedia: Finnlandhaus (DE)

Harburg Castle is located on Harburg Castle Island in Harburg's inland port. It is the oldest architectural testimony of today's Hamburg district of Hamburg-Harburg. The castle is the origin of the settlement of Harburg, which later became the city of Harburg/Elbe. It was destroyed several times. Today, only a structurally modified side wing remains.

Wikipedia: Harburger Schloss (DE)

Stettin is a steam icebreaker built by the shipyard Stettiner Oderwerke in 1933. She was ordered by the Chamber of Commerce of Stettin. The economy of the city of Stettin strongly depended on the free access of ships to and from the Baltic Sea. Therefore, icebreakers were used to keep the shipping channels free from ice during the winter.

Wikipedia: SS Stettin (1933) (EN), Website

The “memorial for deserters and other victims of the Nazi military justice” is located at Dammtordamm in Hamburg in the neighborhood of two older monuments, which also address war and victims of war. The 227 known victims of the Wehrmacht justice of the Second World War in Hamburg are particularly appreciated.

Wikipedia: Deserteurdenkmal (Hamburg) (DE)

The Tieloh School in the street of the same name in Hamburg's Barmbek-Nord district is one of the locations of the Emil Krause School. Before the Hamburg school reform, it was a Hamburg primary, secondary and secondary school under one roof.

Wikipedia: Schule Tieloh (DE), Website

The Meßberghof – until 1938 Ballinhaus – is an office building built between 1922 and 1924 in Hamburg. The listed building is located on the Meßberg between the streets Pumpen and Willy-Brandt-Straße and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel since 2015.

Wikipedia: Meßberghof (DE)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nikolai, located in Hamburg-Billwerder directly on the Billdeich dike, is the newest church building on a site where churches have been mentioned in documents since the 13th century.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolai (Hamburg-Billwerder) (DE)

The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg is a private museum in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The museum houses Peter Tamm's collection of model ships, construction plans, uniforms, and maritime art, amounting to over 40,000 items and more than one million photographs. It opened in a former warehouse in 2008.

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The Nahverkehrsmuseum Kleinbahnhof Wohldorf is located at the former terminus of the Alt-Rahlstedt–Volksdorf–Wohldorf electric light railway in the north of Hamburg. The museum provides information about the former Walddörfer tram and the history of public transport in Hamburg and the surrounding area. An important part of the exhibition is the model railway layout. Since 2021, the museum has been extensively renovated. The work was successfully completed in winter 2022.

Wikipedia: Nahverkehrsmuseum Kleinbahnhof Wohldorf (DE), Website

Scharhörn is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the North Sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979.

Wikipedia: Scharhörn (EN)

Up ewig ungedeelt is a passage of the Treaty of Ripen of 1460, in which the rule in the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein was regulated. After August Wilhelm Neuber had used this saying in a poem in 1841, it became the slogan of the state law demanded by the Holstein Assembly of the Estates in 1844: "The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein are firmly connected states". Up ewig ungedeelt is the motto of the state of Schleswig-Holstein today.

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The Bugenhagen Church is a former Evangelical Lutheran church in the Barmbek-Süd district of Hamburg. It was built between 1927 and 1929 on today's Biedermannplatz according to plans by the architect Emil Heynen and restored and rebuilt by Bernhard Hirche from 1996 to 1998. In 2004, the Bugenhagen Church was closed and deconsecrated in 2019.

Wikipedia: Bugenhagenkirche (Hamburg-Barmbek) (DE)

The Hulbe-Haus is an office and commercial building in Hamburg, Mönckebergstraße 21, which is a listed building. It was built in 1910/11 according to designs by the Hamburg architect Henry Grell (1870–1937) and is named after its client, the bookbinder and leather craftsman Georg Hulbe.

Wikipedia: Hulbe-Haus (DE)

St. Nicolai in Hamburg-Altengamme is one of Hamburg's eight country churches and is considered the oldest of the village churches in the Vier- and Marschlande area. It is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of children, fishermen, sailors and merchants. Since the Reformation, which took effect in Altengamme around 1535, it has been the centre of an Evangelical Lutheran congregation.

Wikipedia: St. Nicolai (Hamburg-Altengamme) (DE), Website

The TRUDE shield temporary machine, an acronym for deep down under the Elbe, was the largest tunnel boring machine in the world with an outside diameter of 14.20 meters. For the expansion of the new Elbe tunnel in Hamburg, a fourth tube was drilled in the shielding process between October 1997 and March 2000 under the river bed of the Elbe. The tunnel drill with a weight of over 2000 tons carried around 400,000 cubic meters of sand, scree and stones at an average speed of 6 meters per day.

Wikipedia: TRUDE (DE)

The old Harburg cemetery is a public park on a former cemetery site in Hamburg-Harburg. It is located on a hill south of St. John's Church on Bremer Straße. In the east it borders on Maretstraße with the Phoenixviertel and ends in the south at Baererstraße. From here, a footpath runs over a bridge into Harburg's city park, creating a green path connection from Harburg's city center area to the city park.

Wikipedia: Alter Friedhof Harburg (DE)

The Mennonite congregation of Hamburg and Altona has existed since 1601. The current parish church was consecrated in 1915 in Altona-Nord, earlier church buildings were located in the Große Freiheit. In addition to the Mennonite Church, the congregation in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld has its own cemetery.

Wikipedia: Mennonitengemeinde zu Hamburg und Altona (DE), Website

The Moorweide is a public green space in the Hamburg district of Rotherbaum, north of the Dammtor train station. Originally, it was bordered by Edmund-Siemers-Allee, Moorweidenstraße, Mittelweg, Neue Rabenstraße and Alsterglacis. The part west of Rothenbaumchaussee has been built on since 1919 with the main building of the university and is no longer officially counted as moor pasture in the narrower sense. The remaining main part between Rothenbaumchaussee and Mittelweg is also known as Große Moorweide, the strip between Mittelweg and Neuer Rabenstraße as Kleine Moorweide. In total, today's park is about 4.3 hectares in size and is registered as an "important garden monument" in Hamburg's list of monuments.

Wikipedia: Moorweide (DE)

The Harburg City Park is a public park in the 1920s in the districts of Wilstorf and Marmstorf in the district of Hamburg-Harburg. When the park opened in 1926, the two districts belonged to the city of Harburg. Since 1937, both have belonged to the city of Hamburg. The park runs in a hilly forest landscape in the Wilstorf district around the outer mill pond and has since grown to a total of about 90 hectares of land including the water areas through acquisitions. The park area south of Nymphenweg and west of Engelbek to Langenbeker Weg is located in the Marmstorf district.

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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.

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The Great Tower Neuwerk is the most significant building of the Neuwerk island, belonging to Hamburg. Completed in 1310, the structure is one of the oldest worldwide that was used as lighthouse (1814–2014) and still standing. This former beacon, watchtower and lighthouse is also the oldest building in Hamburg and oldest secular building on the German coast.

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MS Cap San Diego is a general cargo ship, situated as a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany. Notable for her elegant silhouette, she was the last of a series of six ships known as the White Swans of the South Atlantic, and marked the apex of German-built general cargo ships before the advent of the container ship and the decline of Germany's heavy industry.

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The Laeiszhalle, formerly Musikhalle Hamburg, is a concert hall in the Neustadt of Hamburg, Germany and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Philharmoniker Hamburg. The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz, founder of the concert venue. The Baroque Revival Laeiszhalle was planned by the architect Martin Haller and inaugurated at its location on the Hamburg Wallring on 4 June 1908. At that time, the Musikhalle was Germany's largest and most modern concert hall.

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The Hamburger Dom is a large fair held at the Heiligengeistfeld fair ground in central Hamburg, Germany. With three fairs per year it is the biggest and the longest fair throughout Germany and attracts approximately ten million visitors per year. It is also referred to as a Volksfest .The Hamburger Dom is also one of the well known festivals in the Hamburg metropolitan area.

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The Speicherstadtmuseum documents the building and usage history of the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg. It is located in the room - equally ground floor - of the memory block L of 1888, which was built in the style of neo -Gothic according to a design by the Hamburg architect Georg Thielen and which still has the originals of recessed skeletal construction made of blacksmiths in the part used by the Speicherstadtmuseum. The museum is conveniently located on the Sandtorkai 36 in the neighborhood of HafenCity, the Miniature Miniatur Wunderland model railway line, the Hamburg Dungeon and the Spice Museum and can best be reached via the subway line 3.

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The Old Elbe Park in Hamburg is a listed public green space between the districts of Neustadt and St. Pauli. It is part of Hamburg's historic ramparts and connects the Planten un Blomen park to the north with the Stintfang, a prominent hill above the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken. The Old Elbe Park is dominated by the Bismarck monument erected in 1906 by the sculptor Hugo Lederer. The name Alter Elbpark has also existed since 1906.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter is the central church of the Hamburg district of Groß Borstel. It is located on the corner of Borsteler Chaussee / Schrödersweg in the immediate vicinity of the Stavenhagenhaus. With its central location and the outstanding shape of the nave and the tower, it characterises the townscape of the district.

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The lightship Elbe 3 was built in 1888 as the lightship Weser at the shipyard of Johann Lange in Vegesack. The first assignment was on the Weser position from 1889. In 1936, the ship received a four-stroke marine diesel engine. Instead of the middle mast, the ship therefore has a chimney. From 1954 to 1955 and 1956 to 1966 the ship was in service at position Bremen, and from 1966 to 1977 at position Elbe 3. The beacon consisted of three electrically operated individual fires. The decommissioning was on 23 May 1977 in Cuxhaven.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis in the Hamburg district of Neuengamme is located on the Neuengammer house dike south of the Dove Elbe and is one of the oldest surviving church buildings in Hamburg.

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Since 1900, the Wittenbergen lighthouse, together with the Tinsdal lighthouse, has formed the Wittenbergen–Tinsdal directional light line for ships sailing downstream of the Elbe in the Hamburg district of Rissen.

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Since 1900, the Tinsdal lighthouse has formed the Wittenbergen-Tinsdal directional light line on the Elbe in the Hamburg district of Rissen as the upper light, together with the Wittenbergen lighthouse as the lower light.

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The Alt-Rahlstedt Church, which belongs to the Nordkirche, is one of the oldest church buildings in northern Germany with works of art worth seeing. It is located in the Hamburg district of Rahlstedt, which belonged to the district of Stormarn until the Greater Hamburg Act. Under canon law, it has belonged to the church district of Hamburg-Ost since 2009, before that to the church district of Stormarn since 1977 and from 1813 to 1977 to the provost's office of Stormarn. Therefore, the church is often counted as part of Stormarn in older literature. Connections to the surrounding area of Hamburg have been preserved to this day, for example, the church of Braak is a daughter church of the church of Alt-Rahlstedt.

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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.

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The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Pankratius in Hamburg-Neuenfelde was built between 1682 and 1687. The North German organ builder Arp Schnitger is buried in the church with his wife and daughter. A floor slab and his preserved church pews to the south next to the pulpit basket commemorate him. In addition, the church is worth seeing for its organ built by Schnitger and the uniform Baroque furnishings completed by 1731 – including Northern Germany's oldest pulpit altar.

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Theater das Zimmer is a private theater in Hamburg-Horn, founded in 2014 and run by Sandra Kiefer and Lars Ceglecki. It is located in a former shop and has 40 spectator seats. The theatre was awarded the Barbara Kisseler Prize in 2022.

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Jenisch House (Jenisch-Haus) is a country house in Hamburg built in the 19th century and an example of Hanseatic lifestyle and neoclassical architecture. As of 2008, Jenisch House is the home of the Museum für Kunst und Kultur an der Elbe. It is located within the Jenisch park in the Othmarschen quarter.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Erich between Billhorner Röhrendamm and Marckmannstraße in Hamburg's Rothenburgsort district was built between 1961 and 1963. It is the successor to the parish church of St. Josef on Bullenhuser Damm, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The design for the modern church building, which resembles a large fish from the outside, comes from the Berlin architect Reinhard Hofbauer.

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The Lokstedt Water Tower is located in the Hamburg district of Lokstedt, near the junction of Süderfeldstraße and Lokstedter Steindamm. It is no longer used as a water tower, but has been converted for residential purposes. With its height of 50.25 m, it clearly towers over the low residential buildings of Lokstedt and thus forms a landmark of the district.

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Antonipark is a small public park in Hamburg, Germany. It is located on the high banks of the Elbe, at the intersection of Pinnasberg/Antoni-/Bernhard-Nocht-/St.Pauli-Hafenstraße and mostly in the Altona-Altstadt district on the border with St. Pauli. It is also known as Park Fiction.

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The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. The two historical buildings dating from 1911 to 1913 are iconic in style, with their open steel-and-glass structures. Their architecture creates a backdrop for spectacular major international exhibitions.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Martinskirche is located in the Hamburg district of Rahlstedt in the district of Neu-Rahlstedt between the streets Rahlstedter Straße and Hohwachter Weg. Due to its location, eye-catching architecture and colour scheme, the church shows stylistic echoes of the pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne is located a little away from the main roads between Bramfelder Weg and Am Luisenhof. It belongs to the garden city of Farmsen, designed by Hans Bernhard Reichow and Otto Gühlk.

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