Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Hamburg, Germany
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11.8 km
190 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: Alter Schwede
Der Alte Schwede or Alter Schwede is a glacial erratic in Germany.
Sight 2: Alter Leuchtturm Pagensand-Süd
The Old Lighthouse Pagensand-Süd is a small lighthouse that stood on the southern tip of Pagensand from 1934 to 2015. Since 21 November 2015, it has been erected as a technical monument in the Hamburg Museum Port Oevelgönne.
Sight 3: Elbe 3
The lightship Elbe 3 was built in 1888 as the lightship Weser at the shipyard of Johann Lange in Vegesack. The first deployment 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 from 1956 to 1966 the ship was in service at position Bremen, and from 1966 to 1977 at position Elbe 3. Elbe 3 was a lightship position northwest of Cuxhaven and northeast of Neuwerk in one of the main shipping lanes of the German Bight. The beacon consisted of three electrically operated individual beacons. It was decommissioned on 23 May 1977 in Cuxhaven.
Sight 4: Dampfeisbrecher Stettin
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.
Sight 5: SD WOLTMAN
Built in 1904, the steam tug Woltman is one of the few surviving steam-powered seagoing vessels with a coal-fired boiler.
Sight 6: Altonaer Kaispeicher
In 1924, the Altonaer Kaispeicher was built according to a design by Gustav Oelsner. The Kaispeicher is located in the part of the Große Elbstraße facing Neumühlen. It is one of Hamburg's cultural monuments. In 2009, modernization measures were carried out. In the 21st century, the warehouse is used for events of various kinds.
Sight 7: Altonaer Theater
The Altonaer Theater is a theater in Hamburg, Germany. The private theater adapts literary works for the stagbe, from classics and international bestsellers to young German literature and more. Past productions include Anna Karenina, Steppenwolf, Measuring the World, and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. It presents its own productions, guest performances, and special events. Axel Schneider has been the theater manager since 1995.
Sight 8: Schellfischtunnel
The Altona Harbour Railway Tunnel is a disused, 961 m long railway tunnel in Hamburg-Altona, Germany. It connected the easternmost track at Hamburg-Altona station with the tracks of the former Altona harbour railway and the Altona fishing harbour below the Geest slope on the Elbe. It has been reopened for viewing.
Sight 9: Altonaer Museum
Altonaer Museum is an art museum in the suburb of Altona in Hamburg, Germany. The museum association was established in 1863, when Altona was still part of Denmark. The museum has a collection of over 300 000 objects connected to the cultural history of Northern Germany.
Sight 10: Gedenkstein an die Abschiebung von 800 Juden
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 caused by the war. Taken as a whole, they can be understood as a "city memory" for the period from 1933 to 1945. Since the collapse of National Socialist rule, more than 150 memorial sites have been established in Hamburg. The first was inaugurated during a commemorative event at the Ohlsdorf cemetery at the end of October/beginning of November 1945, it was the urn of the Unknown Concentration Prisoner from the Auschwitz extermination camp. The funeral was attended by 15,000 people. In 1949, this first urn became part of the Memorial to the Victims of Nazi Persecution, 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), Website
Sight 11: Süleyman Taşköprü
Süleyman Taşköprü was one of the victims of the NSU murder series of the terrorist organization "National Socialist Underground" (NSU). The greengrocer was killed in his father's shop with three shots from two different weapons.
Sight 12: Hauptkirche St. Trinitatis
The Protestant main church of St. Trinitatis was built between 1742 and 1743 in the baroque style of the time in the Holstein town of Altona, which was incorporated into Hamburg in 1938. After being destroyed during the war, the building was restored to its original appearance in the 1960s and given a modern interior design.
Sight 13: Wohlers Park
The cemetery Norderreihe 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 funeral took place in 1945. It has been a listed building since 1979 and has also been designated as a public park of about 4.6 hectares.
Sight 14: Hamburger Dom
Book Free Tour*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.
Sight 15: Wappen FC St. Pauli
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, that competes in the 2. Bundesliga.
Sight 16: Gewerbehaus
The Hamburg Chamber of Crafts is a corporation under public law and an organised self-governing body for the entire craft sector in Hamburg.
Sight 17: Alter Botanischer Garten
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.
Sight 18: Gedenkort für Deserteure und andere Opfer der NS-Militärjustiz
The "Memorial for Deserters and Other Victims of Nazi Military Justice" is located on Dammtordamm in Hamburg in the vicinity of two older monuments that also deal with war and war victims. Special tribute is paid to the 227 victims of Wehrmacht justice during the Second World War in Hamburg, who are known by name.
Sight 19: Kriegsdenkmal
Dammtor is a zone (Ort) of the German city of Hamburg, situated between the quarters of Rotherbaum and Neustadt.
Sight 20: Schillerdenkmal
The Hamburg monument to Friedrich Schiller was unveiled in 1866 and has stood in Gustav Mahler Park on Dammtordamm since 1958. It is designated as a cultural monument with object ID 12568.
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