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

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.
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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.
- 01Knick-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 - 02Lake 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 - 03Born 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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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 → Pinneberg92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
- Hannover → Pinneberg143 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €17–24
- Greven → Pinneberg69 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–12
- 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 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.
- 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 Pinneberg
Pinneberg is 13 km from Hamburg-Nord, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Schenefeldmunicipality of Kreis Pinneberg, Germany3.7 km
- Halstenbekmunicipality of Germany2.5 km
- Ellerbekmunicipality of Germany5.3 km
- Appenmunicipality of Germany4.8 km
- Rellingenmunicipality of Germany2.9 km
- Borstel-Hohenradenmunicipality of Germany5.7 km