Local gems in Hamburg

Altona Fish Market

Hamburg

Sundays 5–9:30 — fish, eel, hollering hawkers, followed by breakfast in the old auction hall.

Old Elbe Tunnel

Hamburg

Pedestrian tunnel under the Elbe, 426 m long, with vintage lifts that once carried horses and cars.

Bucerius Kunst Forum

Hamburg

Private foundation art space on Rathausmarkt, three to four high-caliber rotating shows a year from antiquity to classical modernism.

Hamburg City Hall

Hamburg

1897 sandstone palace with 647 rooms, seat of the Hamburg senate and parliament.

Hamburg Stadtpark

Hamburg

Designed as a 1914 people's park — summer open-air concerts, the Planetarium and an awful lot of Hamburgers with grills and blankets.

Millerntor Stadium

Hamburg

Cult stadium on Heiligengeistfeld, 29,500 seats — skull flags, antifascist home games, weekday stadium tours.

Molotow

Hamburg

Reeperbahn institution for indie concerts, relocated multiple times, still the meeting point for bands and fans off the big stages.

Mönckebergstrasse

Hamburg

1908 retail street between city hall and central station — department stores flanked by St. Petri and St. Jacobi.

Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Hamburg

389 hectares of park-cemetery since 1877 — mausoleums, ponds, sculptures, bus lines crossing through — unusually peaceful.

St. Katharinen

Hamburg

One of Hamburg's five main churches, 14th-century Gothic nave with a Baroque tower top — right by Speicherstadt.

St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg

Hamburg

Tierpark Hagenbeck

Hamburg

Blankenese Stairs Quarter

Hamburg

Western Hamburg district with nested captain's houses on steep stairs, Strand Promenade by Süllberg and Elbe views.

Landungsbrücken

Hamburg

Floating piers with U- and S-Bahn stops, harbor tours, the tide gauge and souvenir kiosks.

Alsterdorf

Hamburg

Alter Teichweg

Hamburg

Amt Berkenthin

Hamburg

Amt Berkenthin is an administrative community in the Duchy of Lauenburg district in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. It comprises ten municipalities, with Berkenthin as its administrative seat. The area lies south of Lübeck in the rural rolling countryside of Schleswig-Holstein. Characterised by farmland, small lakes, and open fields, Amt Berkenthin represents the quiet, little-visited hinterland between Hamburg and Lübeck.

Amt Büchen

Hamburg

Amt Büchen is an administrative amalgamation in the Lauenburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, centred on the municipality of Büchen. The area lies in the north German lowlands east of Hamburg, characterised by farmland, small villages, and the nearby Elbe-Lübeck Canal. Büchen itself is a notable railway junction on the Hamburg–Lübeck line. The Amt has no major tourist attractions but offers a representative picture of quiet north German flatland communities.

Amt Geest und Marsch Südholstein

Hamburg

Amt Geest und Marsch Südholstein is an administrative district in the western part of Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein. It brings together several communities across the flat marshland and geest landscape of southern Holstein. The administrative seat is the municipality of Heist. The area reflects the open, rural character of northern Germany — wide pastures, farms, and the understated calm of the Pinneberg countryside.

Bahrenfeld

Hamburg

BallinStadt

Hamburg

Barclays Arena

Hamburg

Barmbek

Hamburg

Beek

Hamburg

Bischofsturm

Hamburg

Bismarck Mausoleum

Hamburg

BLEICHEN

Hamburg

Borgweg (Stadtpark)

Hamburg

Born Park

Hamburg

Botanischer Sondergarten

Hamburg