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Barmbek-Nord

Barmbek-Nord is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Hamburg-Nord.

Barmbek-Nord
Barmbek-Nord · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Barmbek-Nord is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Hamburg-Nord. It is located in the east of Hamburg-Nord, approximately five kilometers from Hamburg city center. Barmbek-Nord is a densely built-up area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barmbek-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
    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 km · mosque · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.3 km · March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.6 km · cemetery in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1.9 km · municipal public park in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hamburg 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.

    2.2 km · most visited star theatre in Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bramfelder See

    Bramfelder See is a lake in Steilshoop, Hamburg, Germany, which is named after the nearby former village of Bramfeld. It is fed by several springs, among others from the former swamp of Prökelmoor, located today on the compound of nearby Ohlsdorf Cemetery.

    2.4 km · lake in Hamburg · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hamburg Museum of Work

    The Hamburg Museum of Work is a museum in Hamburg-Barmbek. Its major theme is changes in work and living during the last 150 years.

    2.2 km · museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus

    Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus is a theatre in Hamburg, Germany.

    3.3 km · Theater in Hamburg · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St. Matthew's Church

    St. Matthew's Church in Winterhude, Hamburg, is a brick Lutheran church built from 1910 to 1912 in the baroque style.

    2.7 km · church · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Mary's Church Ohlsdorf

    St. Mary's Church (Kirchengemeinde St.

    2.1 km · church building in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf · 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 Barmbek-Nord

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 4 km · Bremen (BRE), 104 km · Hannover (HAJ), 129 km
Stations
Mundsburg, 3.9 km · Barmbek station, 2.1 km · Lattenkamp, 3 km · Hudtwalckerstraße, 3.1 km · Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, 2.8 km
  • Bremen → Barmbek-Nord
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €13–18
  • Hannover → Barmbek-Nord
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €16–22
  • Greven → Barmbek-Nord
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €6–9
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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 Barmbek-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 Barmbek-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

    320 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    838 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    938 km

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Around it

Next door to Barmbek-Nord

Barmbek-Nord is 4 km from Wandsbek, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.