Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Hamburg, Germany

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 7.6 km
Ascend 137 m
Descend 120 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 Hamburg

Sight 1: Alster Fountains

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Alster fountain is a landmark located in Hamburg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Alster fountain (EN), Website

588 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: 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

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Café Alex

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The Alster Pavilion is a striking building in Hamburg, which housed a traditional café before the current restaurant. The Alster Pavilion is located on Jungfernstieg on the Inner Alster.

Wikipedia: Alsterpavillon (DE), Website

682 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: Schillerdenkmal

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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.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (Hamburg) (DE)

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Büsch-Denkmal

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The Büsch Monument is a monument in Hamburg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Büsch-Denkmal (DE)

531 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

1404 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 7: 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 whose genesis began in 1911 with the Wolf brothers.

Wikipedia: An de Eck steiht’n Jung mit’n Tüdelband (DE)

379 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: 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 9: Alter Elbpark

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The old Elbpark in Hamburg is a listed public green area between the districts of Neustadt and St. Pauli. It is part of the historic Hamburg ramparts and connects the north of Planten Park system and Blomen with the stint trap, a striking hill above the St. Pauli landing bridges. The old Elbpark is dominated by the Bismarck monument of the sculptor Hugo Lederer built in 1906. The name Alter Elbpark has also existed since 1906.

Wikipedia: Alter Elbpark (DE)

663 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: St. Pauli Theater

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St. Pauli TheaterAndré-Pierre from Stellenbosch, South Africa / CC BY 2.0

St. Pauli Theater is a theatre in Hamburg, Germany. It opened in 1841 as the Urania Theater and took its present name in 1941.

Wikipedia: St. Pauli Theater (EN), Website

987 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 11: Hauptkirche St. Trinitatis

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Hauptkirche St. Trinitatis Selbst / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: St. Trinitatis (Altona) (DE), Url

1082 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 12: Süleyman Taşköprü

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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.

Wikipedia: Süleyman Taşköprü (DE)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Schellfischtunnel

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SchellfischtunnelFlo Beck in der Wikipedia auf Deutsch (Originaltext: Flo Beck) / CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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.

Wikipedia: Schellfischtunnel (DE)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Altonaer Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Altonaer Museum (EN)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Altonaer Theater

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Altonaer Theater Selbst / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Altonaer Theater (EN), Website, Url

151 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Black Form

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Black Form – Dedicated to the Missing Jews is a 1987 sculpture by the American artist Sol LeWitt, which has been installed since 1989 as a memorial to the destroyed Jewish community of Altona on the Platz der Republik in front of the Altona town hall.

Wikipedia: Black Form – Dedicated to the Missing Jews (DE)

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