Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Hamburg, Germany
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5 km
49 m
Explore Hamburg in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in HamburgIndividual Sights in HamburgSight 1: Sankt Sophien
St. Sophien is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd, Germany, at Weidestraße 53. The church, which opened in 1900, was donated by the shipowner Wilhelm Anton Riedemann. The name 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.
Sight 2: Schleidenpark
The Schleiderpark was created in 1903/04 on the outskirts of Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd on open grounds as the first public park in a Hamburg-based workers district. The streets surrounding it were named Biedermannplatz in 1947 after the municipality.
Sight 3: Bugenhagenkirche
The Bugenhagen Church is a former Evangelical Lutheran church in the Barmbek-Süd district of Hamburg, Germany. It was built between 1927 and 1929 on today's Biedermannplatz according to plans by the architect Emil Heynen and was restored and rebuilt by Bernhard Hirche from 1996 to 1998. In 2004, the Bugenhagen Church was closed and deconsecrated in 2019.
Sight 4: Schleidenbrücke
The Schleidenbrücke is a road bridge over the Osterbek Canal in Hamburg.
Sight 5: Museum der Arbeit
The St. Georg is the oldest steamship still seaworthy in Germany and is based in Hamburg.
Sight 6: Bohrkopf T.R.U.D.E.
With an outer diameter of 14.20 metres, the TRUDE shield boring machine, an acronym for Tief Runter unter Die Elbe, was the largest tunnel boring machine in the world at the time. Between October 1997 and March 2000, a 2560-metre-long fourth tube was drilled under the Elbe riverbed using the shield tunnelling method for the extension of the new Elbe Tunnel in Hamburg. The tunnel boring machine, weighing over 2000 tons, removed about 400,000 cubic meters of sand, debris and stones at an average speed of 6 meters per day.
Sight 7: Heinrich-Grosz-Hof
The Heinrich-Groß-Hof is a listed residential complex in Hamburg's Barmbek-Süd district and is located on Kraepelinweg, Pinelsweg and Reyesweg. It was built by the ship's carpenters' cooperative in 1928 and contains 128 apartments with a living area of 30 to 74 m².
Sight 8: Frohbotschaftskirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Good News is centrally located on Strassburger Platz in Hamburg-Dulsberg.
Sight 9: Friedrichsberger Park
The Friedrichsberger Park is an approximately 10 hectare public green area in the Hamburg districts of Barmbek-Süd and Eilbek. The park is mainly north of the Eilbek River, between Friedrichsberger Straße in the west and the S-Bahn station Friedrichsberg in the east. It is part of a green area, which also includes the Eichtalpark and the Mühlenteichpark in Wandsbek, the Eilbektal and the Kuhmühlenteich between Hohenfelde and the Uhlenhorst.
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