Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Hamburg, Germany
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6.5 km
163 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: Hauptkirche St. Katharinen
Sankt Katharinen is one of Hamburg's five main churches. Its tower shaft from the 13th century is considered to be the oldest upright building in Hamburg that still fulfils its function. It is located opposite the Speicherstadt on the street Bei den Mühren and is considered the church of sailors due to its proximity to the harbour.
Wikipedia: Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen (Hamburg) (DE), Website
Sight 2: Neuerwegsbrücke
The Neuerweg Bridge in Hamburg-HafenCity spans the St. Annenfleet in the Speicherstadt.
Sight 3: Auf dem Sande
The Kehrwieder is one of the former islands in the city of Hamburg and belongs to the HafenCity district. Geographically, it lies in the river splitting area of the Lower Elbe and is the northern Grasbrook. In 1532 it was incorporated into the fortified town together with the neighbouring island of Wandrahm.
Sight 4: Miniature Wonderland
Sight 5: Hamburg Dungeon
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.
Sight 6: Spicy's Gewürzmuseum
Spicy's Spice Museum is a private museum founded in 1991 in Hamburg, Germany.
Sight 7: Speicherstadtmuseum
The Speicherstadt Museum documents the history of the construction and use of the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg. It is located in the room – the same as the ground floor – of Speicherblock L from 1888, which was built according to a design by the Hamburg architect Georg Thielen in the neo-Gothic style and which still has the original riveted skeleton construction made of wrought iron in the part used by the Speicherstadt Museum. The museum is conveniently located at Am Sandtorkai 36 in the vicinity of HafenCity, the Miniatur Wunderland model railway site, the Hamburg Dungeon and the Spice Museum and is best reached via U-Bahn line 3.
Sight 8: Speicherstadt
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.
Sight 9: Flussschifferkirche
The Flussschifferkirche is a Protestant church in Hamburg, Germany, which was built on a Weser barge built in 1906 and decommissioned.
Sight 10: Deichstraße
Book Ticket*Deichstraße is the oldest remaining street in the Altstadt of Hamburg, Germany and a popular visitor attraction in the city.
Sight 11: Elbhof
The Kontorhaus Elbhof, Steinhöft 9, near the Baumwall in Hamburg's Neustadt district, was built between 1904 and 1905 according to plans by the architect Walter Martens for AEG.
Sight 12: Sir William Lindley
William Lindley, was an English engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe.
Sight 13: Cap San Diego
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.
Sight 14: Gustaf-Adolfskyrkan
The Gustav Adolf Church is a church building in Hamburg-Neustadt, Germany. It belongs to the Church of Sweden, and was built between 1906-1907.
Sight 15: Stintfang
The Stintfang is a 26-metre-high hill on the right (northern) bank of the Elbe in Hamburg, Germany. It is a remnant of Hamburg's former ramparts and, due to its exposed location above the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken, an important landmark in Hamburg's cityscape. 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.
Sight 16: U-434
B-515 is a Tango-class submarine of the Soviet and Russian Navies. It remained in active service until 2001. It is currently docked in Hamburg and is open to the public as a museum exhibit. The submarine is sometimes referred to as U-434, which derives from the pennant number painted on the vessel.
Sight 17: Fischauktionshalle
The fish auction hall in Hamburg-Altona was built in Altona in 1895/96 at the newly built fishing port on the Elbe to enable auction, trade and shipping from there. In addition, the building was used to store and repair fishing equipment and the distribution of cooling ice. The hall has served as a place for events since its restoration in 1984. The steel beam construction, which is carried out with brickwerk, has been a listed building since 1984 and testifies to the importance of fish trade in the formerly competing cities of Hamburg and Altona.
Sight 18: Mahnmal Madonna der Seefahrt
The Madonna of the Seas, also known as the Madonna of Seafaring, at the Altona fish market is a monument to all those who remained at sea. It was erected in 1985.
Sight 19: Antonipark
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 for the most part in the Altona-Altstadt district on the border with St. Pauli. It is also known as Park Fiction.
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