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Hamburg-Nord

Hamburg-Nord is one of the seven boroughs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in northern Germany.

Hamburg-Nord
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The place

Hamburg-Nord is one of the seven boroughs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in northern Germany. In 2020, according to the residents registration office, the population was 315,514 in an area of 57.5 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hamburg-Nord

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Hamburg

    The University of Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System, the Hamburg Colonial Institute, and the Academic College.

    5.8 km · university in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tierpark Hagenbeck

    The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo in Stellingen, Hamburg, Germany. The collection began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr.

    4.7 km · zoo in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Islamic Centre Hamburg

    The Islamic Centre Hamburg, was the proprietor organisation of the Imam Ali Mosque also known as the Blue Mosque, the oldest mosque in Hamburg, Germany. It was established in the late 1950s by a group of Iranian emigrants and construction was completed in the early 1960s.

    4.7 km · mosque · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hamburg shooting

    On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The shooter, identified as 35-year-old Philipp Fusz, entered the building after a service was held there and opened fire, killing six people and injuring eight others, before killing himself minutes later.

    1.7 km · March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ohlsdorf Cemetery

    Ohlsdorf Cemetery Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there is also a large number of victims of war from various nations.

    4.2 km · cemetery in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hamburg University of Music and Drama

    The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany. It was founded in 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.

    5.1 km · university of music in Hamburg · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Außenalster

    Außenalster or Outer Alster Lake is the larger of the two artificial lakes formed by the Alster river in Hamburg, Germany, the other being the Binnenalster. The Außenalster and its shores are used by the inhabitants of Hamburg for many sport and recreational purposes, such as sailing and rowing.

    5.8 km · lake and reservoir in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fazle Omar Mosque

    The Fazl-e-Omar Mosque is a mosque in the Stellingen quarter of the Eimsbüttel borough of Hamburg, Germany.

    5.2 km · a mosque in Hamburg · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hamburg Stadtpark

    Hamburg Stadtpark is a large urban park in the district of Winterhude, in the Hamburg borough of Hamburg-Nord. Spanning an area of 148 hectares, it is the second-largest park in the city after Altona Volkspark.

    2.6 km · municipal public park in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Museum at the Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World

    The Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt, founded in 1879, is today one of the largest museums of ethnology in Europe.

    5.4 km · museum of ethnology in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hamburg-Nord

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 2 km · Bremen (BRE), 102 km · Hannover (HAJ), 130 km
Stations
Hamburg Airport, 1.7 km · Schlump metro station, 5.8 km · Klosterstern metro station, 4 km · Mundsburg, 5.4 km · Barmbek station, 4.4 km
  • Bremen → Hamburg-Nord
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €12–17
  • Hannover → Hamburg-Nord
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €16–22
  • Greven → Hamburg-Nord
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €15–21
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hamburg-Nord

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hamburg-Nord. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe most likely places are the Hamburg Cruise Center Altona (near to the fish market) and the Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity (next to the Unilever-Haus), check out the Hamburg Cruise Center home page There is a regular yet expensive ferry between Hamburg, Cuxhaven and Helgoland.
  • Get inLübeck's port suburb Travemünde, about an hour away by train, is a major Baltic ferry port.
  • Get inTo the east (A24-Berlin) and northeast (A1-Lübeck/Rostock/Puttgarden-ferry to Denmark), you can start at the "Horner-Kreisel" and take the number 261 bus from U-Burgstraße to U-S Barmbek (exit BAB-Auffahrt Horn or walk from U3-Rauhes Haus).
  • Get around(2026) Urban rail lines in Hamburg]] Hamburg has an integrated public transportation system, operated by the HVV, which consists of six S-Bahn (commuter rail) lines, four U-Bahn (subway) lines, seven R-lines (regional trains), three A-lines (AKN), a dense network of bus lines and ferries across the Elbe.
  • Get aroundTherefore, the HVV operates a fleet of ferries to connect the two banks of the Elbe.

From Wikivoyage: Hamburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    321 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    836 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    860 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    938 km

If you know how people move in Hamburg-Nord – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hamburg-Nord

Hamburg-Nord is 7 km from Wandsbek, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eimsbüttelborough of Hamburg, Germany5.4 km
  • Fuhlsbüttelquarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany2.3 km
  • Alsterdorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg1.9 km
  • Eppendorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg3 km
  • Langenhornquarter of the German city of Hamburg3.7 km
  • Winterhudequarter of the German city of Hamburg1.9 km