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Municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Halstenbek

Halstenbek is a free municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Halstenbek
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The place

Halstenbek is a free municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the north-western border of the city of Hamburg and approximately 5 km southeast of Pinneberg.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Halstenbek

One place 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
    Knick-Ei

    Knick-Ei was the nickname of a sports hall located at the corner of Feldstraße and Bahnhofstraße in the city of Halstenbek, located in Pinneberg county in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The nickname refers to the hall's dome-shaped roof which collapsed twice during construction.

    1.7 km · arena · 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 Halstenbek

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 8 km · Bremen (BRE), 97 km · Hannover (HAJ), 131 km
Stations
Elbgaustrasse station, 3.9 km · Thesdorf station, 3.6 km · Halstenbek station, 1.9 km · Krupunder station, 2 km
  • Bremen → Halstenbek
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €13–18
  • Hannover → Halstenbek
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €17–24
  • Greven → Halstenbek
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €17–23
  • From anywhere
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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 Halstenbek

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 Halstenbek. 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

    324 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    828 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

    942 km

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Around it

Next door to Halstenbek

Halstenbek is 9 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rellingenmunicipality of Germany3.3 km
  • Ellerbekmunicipality of Germany2.7 km
  • Tangstedtmunicipality in Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany3.9 km
  • Schnelsenquarter of Hamburg in the borough of Eimsbüttel3.3 km