Alsterdorf
Alsterdorf is a quarter in the Hamburg-Nord borough of the Hamburg, Germany.
Alsterdorf is a quarter in the Hamburg-Nord borough of the Hamburg, Germany. The name derives from the river Alster and its artificial lakes Außenalster and Binnenalster in the centre of Hamburg. In 2023 the population was 15,108.
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Worth seeing in and around Alsterdorf
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.
- 01University 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.
3.9 km · university in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Islamic 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.
2.9 km · mosque · Wikipedia - 03Hamburg 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.
700 m · March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Hamburg 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.
3.3 km · university of music in Hamburg · Wikipedia - 05Außenalster
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.
3.9 km · lake and reservoir in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Hamburg 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.
1.2 km · municipal public park in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Museum 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.
3.6 km · museum of ethnology in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 08Hamburg Planetarium
Hamburg Planetarium is one of the world's oldest, and one of Europe's most visited planetariums. It is located in the district of Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany, and housed in a former water tower at the center of Hamburg Stadtpark.
700 m · most visited star theatre in Germany · Wikipedia - 09Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is an internationally renowned institute for climate research. Its mission is to understand Earth's changing climate.
3.9 km · Meteorological research institute · Wikipedia - 10St. Johannis-Harvestehude
St. Johannis-Harvestehude (St.
3.3 km · church in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alsterdorf
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 3 km · Bremen (BRE), 101 km · Hannover (HAJ), 128 km
- Stations
- Hamburg Airport, 3.5 km · Klosterstern metro station, 2.2 km · Barmbek station, 3.3 km · Mundsburg, 3.7 km · Hallerstraße, 3.1 km
- Bremen → Alsterdorf100 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
- Hannover → Alsterdorf139 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €16–22
- Greven → Alsterdorf54 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · €7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alsterdorf
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 Alsterdorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Alsterdorf is 2 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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