Hamburg Touristic Marathon + some other leisure tips

Hamburg Touristic Marathon, total distance ~42.195 km
Please take note: you can find the
detailed route at www.gmappedometer.com/?r=6668179
Exit M1 bus
(Kinderkrankenhaus-Bleickenallee
walk
walk
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Neumuehlen
Museumshafen
Ferry 62 departs
From here
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Walk along Oevelgoenne beach to Strandperle Bar (cult status)
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Walk back
directly above
the beach along
Oevelgoenne
Fisherman old
houses
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Enter ferry line 62: direction Landungsbruecken
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Enter ferry line 62: direction Landungsbruecken
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Exit ferry line 62 at Landungsbruecken
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Walk through the old Elbtunnel from 1911 (no fee), impressive steal construction,
take the stairs and walk through the tunnel, exit on other side
and walk ~100 m to the river bank  nice view on Hamburg city
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Aussenalster
Kunsthalle
Jungfernstieg
Shopping
passages
Town Hall
Moenckebergstr.
St. Michaelis
Deichstrasse
Speicherstadt
Dialog im
Dunkeln
Cap San Diego
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Hamburg
~1660
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St. Michalis church – the town’s landmark, one of the 5 main churches in Hamburg
Climb the 132,14 m tall tower!! (Platform is at 106 m)
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Krameramtsstuben, near to Michel, in a backyard, a large part of Hamburg
looked like this before the big fire in 1842, cozy but also dark and very tight
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Hamburg Ueberseebruecke – Cap San Diego –
Cargo museum ship in running conditions  a visit is really nice
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Sandtorkai and Elbphilharmonie (under construction,
orginal cost estimate 77 M euro, now ~700 M euro)
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Hafencity with Speicherstadt
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Speicherstadt:: built 1885-1927 (was) the largest warehouse district in the world
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Speicherstadt:: built 1885-1927 (was) the largest warehouse district in the world
Elected in 2015 as a Unesco world heritage site (one of
40 in germany)
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Magellan Terrassen: Elbphilharmonie Pavillion: please listen!
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Maritime Museum in Hafencity (a visit is a bit expensive but worthwhile,e.g.
you can toy with a real sextant)
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Dialog im Dunkeln – exhibition to explore the unseen (most fascinating)
they do tours on request
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Miniatur Wunderland : largest model railway in the world
and biggest tourist attraction in Hamburg (based on #visitors)
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Miniatur Wunderland : Check on their webpage the queue time
or visit late in the evening
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Deichstrasse, carefully restored 17th-19th century houses,
nice “Kartoffelkeller” and other restaurants
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St. Nikolai Church, destroyed in the bombing of Hamburg end of july 1943,
Operation “Gomorrha”, since then a memorial
WW II destructions: Altona Grosse Bergstrasse
Some eastern part in Hamburg
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The big fire in Hamburg 1842
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Hamburg Town hall – one of the biggest in Germany, built
1886-1897, 647 rooms, visit is recommended
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Moenckebergstrasse, the most famous shopping street in Hamburg
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Kunsthalle Hamburg – the most prestigious museum in Hamburg,
masters from 19th century, older masters plus modern art
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Jungfernstieg, famous street for strolling in the city centre
The first asphalted street in germany, 1838
Nice boat trips starting at the pier on the left!
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Jungfernstieg and Binnenalster
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Apple store at Jungfernstieg
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Neuer Wall: luxury shopping
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Hanseviertel: “Shopping Passage”
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Staatsoper , famous opera hall since 1678
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Aussenalster, nice hiking around this artificial lake, nice canoe tours!!!
Café Canale
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Café Canale
Café Canale
Did you know:
Hamburg is the city
in europe with the
largest number of
bridges:
Venice: 410
London: 850
Amsterdam: 1200
Hamburg: 2486
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Lichtfestspiele
Japanese
garden
DOM
Reeperbahn
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Japanese garden in Planten un Blomen park, join the tea ceremony
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Planten un Blomen park, nice flowers, occasionally free music events etc.
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Planten un Blomen park lake ”Wasserlichtspiele” at 10pm each day (no fee)
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Uni Hamburg Physics department Jungiusstrasse
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Hamburger Sommer DOM = movable amusement park, opens 29th july 2016
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Reeperbahn - Grosse Freiheit, where the Beatles had their first gigs
Be cautious of rip-off joints along Reeperbahn street (the table dance bars with
personal trying to pull you in) but otherwise many nice bars and clubs
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According to an old tradition you should at last once
party on Reeperbahn/Grosse Freiheit through saturday night and
then visit the famous Hamburg fishmarket (its ~500 m away) opening sunday at 5am
“Auf der
Reeperbahn
nachts um halb
eins”
https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=
07hn4uXJ-tQ
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Alma Wartenberg
Platz
M1 bus
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Ikea furniture shop on grosse Bergstrasse, Altona:
the first ever Ikea in a city centre,very popular (also the restaurant/café)
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Alma-Wartenberg Platz in Ottensen, very nice restaurants (wild rice, Kumpir, etc.)
and bars, people sit in the evenings on the curbs and have a drink , family feeling
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Other nice places
Wittenbergener
Strand
Blankenese, old
fisher village
Altes Land - biggest
contiguous fruit-producing
region in central europe
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Other nice places
Luebeck, queen of
the Hanse time,
legendary
Stade: beautiful
ensemble of
historic buildings
Lueneburg, ~1500
buildings from medieval
times
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Beaches on baltic sea and north sea
Sylt
St. Peter
Ording
Scharbeutz
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Sylt
www.bahn.de
Hamburg-Altona So, 26.07.15 ab 08:40 NOB
Westerland (Sylt)
an 11:35
Westerland (Sylt)
Hamburg-Altona
ab 19:52 NOB
an 23:03
Buy/use the Schleswig Holstein Ticket:
Price = 28 Euro + 3 Euro * (#participants-1) , max. 5 people
Sylt tour suggestion at
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4678315
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St. Peter Ording
www.bahn.de
Hamburg-Altona So, 26.07.15 ab 08:40 NOB
Bad St. Peter Ording
an 11:27
Bad St. Peter Ording
Hamburg-Altona
ab 19:33 NOB
an 23:03
Buy/use the Schleswig Holstein Ticket:
Price = 28 Euro + 3 Euro * (#participants-1) , max. 5 people
Hiking tour (+swimming!):
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4678251
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Scharbeutz, Timmendorfer Strand, Travemuende
Albert Einstein was on summer vacations in Scharbeutz in 1928 and 1929
www.bahn.de
Hamburg-Altona So, 26.07.15 ab 09:41 S, RE, RB
Timmendorfer Strand
an 09:41
Scharbeutz
an 11:32
Travemuende
Hamburg-Altona
ab 19:40 RE,S
an 21:11
Buy/use the Schleswig Holstein Tarif
Hiking tour (+swimming!):
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4677469
The hiking is for some kms on top of a cliff, the Brodtener Ufer, very
nice views
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Some more ideas:
- Climbing gardens, e.g www.kletterwald-hamburg.com
- Stadtpark with Planetarium
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Other things
There are nice weekly farmer’s markets in Hamburg:
www.hamburger-wochenmaerkte.de
e.g. tomorrow there is one in the vicinity
Market on
Wednesday
And Saturday
mornings ~09h0013h00
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