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Groß Borstel

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Worth seeing in and around Groß Borstel

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
    Tierpark Hagenbeck

    Zoo in Hamburg, Germany

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hamburg shooting

    March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hamburg Stadtpark

    Municipal public park in Hamburg, Germany

    3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hamburg Planetarium

    Most visited star theatre in Germany

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stadion Hoheluft

    Football stadium

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus

    Theater in Hamburg

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Matthew's Church

    Church

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stavenhagenhaus

    Manor house in Hamburg, Germany

    800 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St. Mary's Church Ohlsdorf

    Church building in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Old Niendorf Cemetery

    Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany

    2.2 km · 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.

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Getting to Groß Borstel

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 2 km · Bremen (BRE), 101 km · Hannover (HAJ), 130 km
Stations
Hamburg Airport, 1.9 km · Klosterstern metro station, 3.6 km · Hagenbecks Tierpark, 3.5 km · Hudtwalckerstraße, 2.3 km · Lattenkamp, 1.7 km
  • Bremen → Groß Borstel
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €12–17
  • Hannover → Groß Borstel
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €16–22
  • Greven → Groß Borstel
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · €7–10
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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 Groß Borstel

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 Groß Borstel. 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

    333 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    835 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

    939 km

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Around it

Next door to Groß Borstel

Groß Borstel is 3 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hamburg-Nordborough of Hamburg, Germany1.2 km
  • Fuhlsbüttelquarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany3.2 km
  • Alsterdorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg1.9 km
  • Eppendorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg2.6 km
  • Winterhudequarter of the German city of Hamburg1.9 km
  • Ohlsdorfquarter of the German city of Hamburg3.7 km