Fuhlsbüttel
Fuhlsbüttel is an urban quarter in the north of Hamburg, Germany in the Hamburg-Nord district.
Fuhlsbüttel is an urban quarter in the north of Hamburg, Germany in the Hamburg-Nord district. It is known as the site of Hamburg's international airport, and as the location of a prison which served as a concentration camp in the Nazi system of repression. As a result of boundary changes, JVA Fuhlsbüttel prison is now in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg.
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Worth seeing in and around Fuhlsbüttel
7 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.
- 01Hamburg 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.
4 km · March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Ohlsdorf 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.
3.2 km · cemetery in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Bramfelder 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.
3.8 km · lake in Hamburg · Wikipedia - 04St. Mary's Church Ohlsdorf
St. Mary's Church (Kirchengemeinde St.
1.6 km · church building in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf · Wikipedia - 05Wellingsbüttel Manor
Wellingsbüttel Manor is a former manor with a baroque manor house in Hamburg, Germany, which once enjoyed imperial immediacy. Wellingsbüttel was documented for the first time on 10 October 1296.
3.8 km · manor house · Wikipedia - 06Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery Ohlsdorf also known as Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Ohlsdorf district of Hamburg, Germany. It is the only operating Jewish cemetery in Hamburg and still used for burials according to the Jewish ritual and tradition.
2.8 km · Jewish cemetery in Hamburg · Wikipedia - 07Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Commonwealth Plots
Hamburg Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery is a war cemetery which was built and is looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The war graves of 676 Commonwealth service personnel from World War I and 1,889 from World War II are located near Chapel 12 in the greater Ohlsdorf Cemetery in the Ohlsdorf quarter of Hamburg.
3.7 km · cemetery · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fuhlsbüttel
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 2 km · Bremen (BRE), 104 km · Hannover (HAJ), 132 km
- Stations
- Hamburg Airport, 1.9 km · Sengelmannstraße, 2.9 km · Alsterdorf, 3.2 km · Hamburg Airport station, 700 m · Ohlsdorf station, 1.9 km
- Bremen → Fuhlsbüttel101 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €13–18
- Hannover → Fuhlsbüttel142 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €16–22
- Greven → Fuhlsbüttel131 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €15–21
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- 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.
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Next door to Fuhlsbüttel
Fuhlsbüttel is 5 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hamburg-Nordborough of Hamburg, Germany2.3 km
- Langenhornquarter of the German city of Hamburg2 km
- Ohlsdorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg2.1 km
- Groß Borstelquarter of the German city of Hamburg3.2 km