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Town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Pinneberg

Pinneberg is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Pinneberg
Pinneberg · Jörg Braukmann
The place

Pinneberg is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northwest of the city centre of Hamburg.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pinneberg

3 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
    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.

    2.7 km · arena · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lake Helmuth Schack

    Lake Helmuth Schack is a lake in Osdorf, Hamburg, Germany, adjacent to the boundaries of Schenefeld in Schleswig-Holstein. Düpenau stream runs through it, and the small stream of Luruper Moorgraben flows into it.

    5.1 km · lake in Osdorf, Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Born Park

    Born Park is public park in Osdorf, Hamburg, Germany. Located around Lake Helmuth Schack and the streams of Düpenau and Luruper Moorgraben, it is used as a recreational area mainly by the inhabitants of Osdorf, Osdorfer Born and nearby Schenefeld in Schleswig-Holstein.

    5.3 km · public park in Germany · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Pinneberg

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 12 km · Bremen (BRE), 94 km · Hannover (HAJ), 131 km
Stations
Pinneberg station, 2.4 km · Thesdorf station, 1.5 km · Halstenbek station, 2.6 km · Krupunder station, 4.9 km
  • Bremen → Pinneberg
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
  • Hannover → Pinneberg
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €17–24
  • Greven → Pinneberg
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Pinneberg

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 Pinneberg. 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

    322 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    824 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

    945 km

If you know how people move in Pinneberg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pinneberg

Pinneberg is 13 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.