Ohlsdorf
Ohlsdorf is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany.
Ohlsdorf is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany. Within the quarter, the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, the largest of Hamburg, is located. The cemetery is also considered the largest rural cemetery of the world.
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Worth seeing in and around Ohlsdorf
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.
- 01University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System, the Hamburg Colonial Institute, and the Academic College.
7.1 km · university in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Volksparkstadion
Volksparkstadion is a football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, with a capacity of 57,000, which makes it the eighth largest stadium in Germany. It has served as the home ground of Bundesliga side Hamburger SV since 1953.
10 km · football stadium in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Elbphilharmonie
The Elbphilharmonie, popularly nicknamed Elphi, is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. The new construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave, iceberg or quartz crystal resting on top of an old brick warehouse near the historical Speicherstadt.
9.6 km · concert hall · Wikipedia - 04Chilehaus
The Chilehaus is a ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany in the Kontorhaus District. It is an example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture.
8.5 km · building in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 05Hamburger Kunsthalle
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country.
7.8 km · art museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 06St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg
The Church of St. Nicholas is a Gothic Revival cathedral that was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
8.8 km · church building in Altstadt (Hamburg), Germany · Wikipedia - 07Millerntor-Stadion
Millerntor-Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, Germany.
8.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 08St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg
St. Michael's Church, colloquially called Michel, is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches and one of the most famous churches in the city.
9 km · Lutheran church in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 09Tierpark Hagenbeck
The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo in Stellingen, Hamburg, Germany. The collection began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr.
7.2 km · zoo in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Hamburg City Hall
Hamburg City Hall is the seat of local government of Hamburg, Germany. It is the seat of the government of Hamburg and as such, the seat of one of Germany's 16 state parliaments.
8.5 km · Rathaus (city hall) of Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ohlsdorf
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 3 km · Bremen (BRE), 105 km · Hannover (HAJ), 131 km
- Stations
- Hamburg Airport, 3.4 km · Port of Hamburg, 9.8 km · Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, 7.9 km · Miniatur Wunderland, 9.2 km · Hamburg Dammtor station, 7.5 km
- Bremen → Ohlsdorf102 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · €13–18
- Hannover → Ohlsdorf141 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €16–22
- Greven → Ohlsdorf53 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · €7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ohlsdorf
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 Ohlsdorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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 Ohlsdorf
Ohlsdorf is 5 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hamburgcity and state in the North of Germany8.4 km
- Norderstedtcity in Kreis Segeberg, Germany9.6 km
- Bönningstedtmunicipality of Germany10 km
- Eimsbüttelborough of Hamburg, Germany7.4 km
- Hamburg-Mittedistrict of Hamburg, Germany8.4 km
- HafenCityquarter in the district of Hamburg-Mitte in Hamburg, Germany9.4 km