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Rotherbaum

Rotherbaum is a quarter of Eimsbüttel, a borough of Hamburg, Germany.

Rotherbaum
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The place

Rotherbaum is a quarter of Eimsbüttel, a borough of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020, the population was 17,114.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rotherbaum

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
    University 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.

    400 m · university in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Elbphilharmonie

    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.

    3 km · concert hall · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chilehaus

    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.

    2.4 km · building in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hamburger 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.

    1.7 km · art museum in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. 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.

    2.3 km · church building in Altstadt (Hamburg), Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Millerntor-Stadion

    Millerntor-Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, Germany.

    2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. 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.

    2.3 km · Lutheran church in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hamburg 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.

    2 km · Rathaus (city hall) of Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hamburg State Opera

    The Hamburg State Opera is an opera company based in Hamburg, Germany. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt.

    1.3 km · opera building in Hamburg, Germany · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Islamic Centre Hamburg

    The Islamic Centre Hamburg, was the proprietor organisation of the Imam Ali Mosque also known as the Blue Mosque, the oldest mosque in Hamburg, Germany. It was established in the late 1950s by a group of Iranian emigrants and construction was completed in the early 1960s.

    1.5 km · mosque · 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 Rotherbaum

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 7 km · Bremen (BRE), 99 km · Hannover (HAJ), 125 km
Stations
Port of Hamburg, 3.1 km · Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, 2.1 km · Miniatur Wunderland, 2.7 km · Hamburg-Altona station, 4 km · Hamburg Dammtor station, 800 m
  • Bremen → Rotherbaum
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €12–17
  • Hannover → Rotherbaum
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €15–22
  • Greven → Rotherbaum
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €15–21
  • 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 Rotherbaum

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 Rotherbaum. 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
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    326 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    333 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    834 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    943 km

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Around it

Next door to Rotherbaum

Rotherbaum is 2 km from Hamburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.