Hamburg Metropolitan Region
The Hamburg Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan region centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two districts in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern along with the city-state of Hamburg itself.
The Hamburg Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan region centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two districts in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern along with the city-state of Hamburg itself. It covers an area of roughly 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi) and is home to more than 5.1 million inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Hamburg Metropolitan Region
4 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.
- 01BallinStadt
BallinStadt is the name given to a memorial park and former emigration station in the Port of Hamburg, Germany. From the 1850s to the early 1930s the ground's emigration halls were last homestead for some five million emigrants from various parts of Europe, waiting for their departure to the Americas.
2.5 km · museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Hafenmuseum
The German Port Museum is a nautical museum in Hamburg. The German Federal Parliament's budget committee approved initial funding of €94 million to rebuild it.
2.8 km · museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Bleichen
MS Bleichen is a museum ship in the port of Hamburg, which has its berth in the Hansa port on Bremer Kai in front of Shed 50. The ship, built in 1958, is a breakbulk cargo carrier of its time and is located in front of the listed general cargo storage shed used by the port museum.
3.1 km · preserved watercraft built in 1958, museum ship in Hamburg · Wikipedia - 04Museum Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg
Elbinsel Museum is a museum in Kirchdorf Süd, Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany. The museum was founded in 1907 by a local history group.
1.8 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hamburg Metropolitan Region
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 15 km · Bremen (BRE), 95 km · Hannover (HAJ), 117 km
- Stations
- Moldauhafen, 3.4 km · Wilhelmsburg station, 500 m · Veddel station, 2.6 km
- Bremen → Hamburg Metropolitan Region12274 km · quickest by air, 22h 45m · €15,090–23,430
- Hannover → Hamburg Metropolitan Region12291 km · quickest by air, 23h 1m · €15,110–23,450
- Greven → Hamburg Metropolitan Region12482 km · quickest by air, 28h 53m · €15,300–23,750
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
From Wikivoyage: Hamburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Hamburg Metropolitan Region is 6 km from Hamburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wilhelmsburgquarter of the German city of Hamburg900 m
- Moorburgsuburb in the district Harburg, Germany3.9 km
- Neulandquarter in the district Harburg, Germany3.6 km