Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in Hamburg, Germany

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Number of sights 26 sights
Distance 10.4 km
Ascend 189 m
Descend 191 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: Krameramtsstuben

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The Krameramtsstuben are historic buildings on Krayenkamp, near St. Michaelis Church in the Neustadt district of Hamburg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Krameramtsstuben (EN)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Church of St. Michael

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The main church of St. Michaelis is a Protestant religious building in the Neustadt district of Hamburg. The 132-metre-high tower was built between 1751 and 1786 by the city council of Ernst Georg Sonnin. After its destruction in 1945, St. Michael's Church was rebuilt from 1947 to 1952. It is one of the most famous sights in the city and one of the most important buildings of the Baroque period.

Wikipedia: Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis (Hamburg) (DE), Website, Url

615 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Bismarck-Denkmal

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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)

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Alter Elbpark

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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.

Wikipedia: Alter Elbpark (DE)

923 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Hamburger Dom

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Hamburger Dom

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.

Wikipedia: Hamburger Dom (EN), Website

724 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: 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 7: 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)

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: 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

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: 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

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Gewerbehaus

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The Hamburg Chamber of Crafts is a corporation under public law and an organised self-governing institution for the entire skilled trades in Hamburg.

Wikipedia: Handwerkskammer Hamburg (DE)

653 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

942 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 13: Alter Botanischer Garten

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The Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg, sometimes also known as the Schaugewächshaus or the Tropengewächshäuser, is a botanical garden now consisting primarily of greenhouses in the Planten un Blomen park of Hamburg, Germany. Alter Botanischer Garten is located on the Hamburg Wallring at Stephansplatz and is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg (EN)

494 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Finnlandhaus

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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)

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Hamburgische Staatsoper

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Hamburgische Staatsoper Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Hamburg State Opera (EN), Website

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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The Lessing Monument on the Gänsemarkt in Hamburg is a work of art created by the Berlin sculptor Fritz Schaper. It was erected in 1881 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Wikipedia: Lessing-Denkmal (Hamburg) (DE)

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: 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 18: 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 19: 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)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: 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

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: 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)

606 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 22: 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

383 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 23: Alster Fountains

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Alster fountain is a landmark located in Hamburg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Alster fountain (EN), Website

541 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 24: 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

649 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 25: 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)

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: 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

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