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Nienstedten

Nienstedten is a quarter in the city of Hamburg, Germany.

Nienstedten
Nienstedten · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nienstedten is a quarter in the city of Hamburg, Germany. It belongs to the Altona borough on the right bank of the Elbe river. Nienstedten is home to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In 2020 the population was 7,114.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nienstedten

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
    DESY

    DESY, short for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, is a national research centre for fundamental science located in Hamburg and Zeuthen near Berlin in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure, dynamics and function of matter, and conducts a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary scientific research in four main areas: particle and high energy physics; photon science; astroparticle physics; and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators.

    3.3 km · physics research institute in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr

    The Bundeswehr Command and Staff College is the General Staff College of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, established in 1957 as the successor of the Prussian Military Academy, founded in 1810. Since 1958 it has been located in Hamburg.

    1.2 km · general Staff College of the German armed forces · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ernst Barlach House

    The Ernst Barlach House – Hermann F. Reemtsma Foundation is an art museum in Hamburg, Germany, devoted to the German Expressionist artist Ernst Barlach. The museum was founded by the industrialist Hermann F. Reemtsma, and is located in the Jenisch park in Othmarschen in the west of the city.

    1.5 km · art museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blankenese Low Lighthouse

    Blankenese Low Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the river Elbe, located in the Hamburg district of Blankenese. The previous one entered into service in 1984 and was demolished in November 2020, but replaced by a similar some 200 m river upwards.

    3.2 km · lighthouse in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Waseberg

    The Waseberg in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany is with a height of 87 m above sea level the third highest peak of the city and the second highest of the quarter of Blankenese. It is part of a ridge on the north bank of the river Elbe.

    3.3 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Loki-Schmidt-Garten

    The Loki-Schmidt-Garten, also known as Botanischer Garten Hamburg, or, more formally, as Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg or Biozentrum Klein Flottbek und Botanischer Garten, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Hamburg. It has a size of around 25 hectares and is located at Ohnhorststrasse 18, Hamburg, Germany, beside the Klein Flottbek station in the Osdorf quarter, and is open daily without charge.

    1.3 km · botanical garden in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gossler Park

    Gossler's Park is a public park in Blankenese in Hamburg. It is located north of Blankeneser Landstraße and near Blankenese station.

    2.6 km · park in Altona, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Jenisch park

    The Jenisch Park is the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Othmarschen quarter at the Geest shore of River Elbe. Of the area of 43 ha, 8 are a protected.

    1.4 km · landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Jenisch House

    Jenisch House is a country house in Hamburg built in the 19th century and an example of Hanseatic lifestyle and neoclassical architecture. As of 2008, Jenisch House is the home of the Museum für Kunst und Kultur an der Elbe.

    1.4 km · classicist manor house in Hamburg-Othmarschen, now a museum · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Süllberg

    The Süllberg is with a height of up to 74.7 m above sea level the third largest hill in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany. It is part of the high shore of Blankenese.

    2.9 km · hill in Hamburg, Germany · 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 Nienstedten

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 13 km · Bremen (BRE), 90 km · Hannover (HAJ), 122 km
Stations
Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport, 2.5 km · Klein Flottbek station, 1.1 km · Blankenese station, 2.3 km · Othmarschen station, 2.8 km · Hochkamp station, 700 m
  • Bremen → Nienstedten
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–17
  • Hannover → Nienstedten
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €16–22
  • Greven → Nienstedten
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · €16–22
  • 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 Nienstedten

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 Nienstedten. 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    324 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    824 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    950 km

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Around it

Next door to Nienstedten

Nienstedten is 10 km from Hamburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.