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Wilhelmsburg

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wilhelmsburg

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
    Elbphilharmonie

    Concert hall

    5.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hamburg University of Technology

    University in Germany

    4.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Köhlbrand Bridge

    Bridge in Hamburg (Germany)

    5.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    International Maritime Museum Hamburg

    Museum

    5.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Neuengamme Concentration Camp - Bullenhuser Damm Memorial

    Museum and memorial in Hamburg

    5.9 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Archäologisches Museum Hamburg und Stadtmuseum Harburg

    Archaeologic and local historic museum in Hamburg, Germany

    4.5 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    HafenCity University Hamburg

    University in Germany

    5.3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    BallinStadt

    Museum in Hamburg, Germany

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Afghan Museum

    Private museum of culture and cultural history of Afghanistan

    5.8 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hafenmuseum

    Museum in Hamburg, Germany

    3.7 km · 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.

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Getting to Wilhelmsburg

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 15 km · Bremen (BRE), 95 km · Hannover (HAJ), 117 km
Stations
Port of Hamburg, 5.6 km · Miniatur Wunderland, 5.9 km · Moldauhafen, 4 km · Hamburg-Harburg station, 4.3 km · Überseequartier, 5.4 km
  • Bremen → Wilhelmsburg
    93 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €11–16
  • Hannover → Wilhelmsburg
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €14–20
  • Greven → Wilhelmsburg
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €7–10
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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 Wilhelmsburg

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 Wilhelmsburg. 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

    332 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    833 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    949 km

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Around it

Next door to Wilhelmsburg

Wilhelmsburg is 6 km from Hamburg-Mitte, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Harburgborough of the city of Hamburg, Germany5.7 km
  • HafenCityquarter in the district of Hamburg-Mitte in Hamburg, Germany5.6 km
  • Hamburg Metropolitan Regionarea surrounding the city of Hamburg, Germany1.2 km
  • Moorburgsuburb in the district Harburg, Germany4.7 km
  • Neulandquarter in the district Harburg, Germany2.5 km
  • Eißendorfquarter of Hamburg, in the borough of Harburg5.7 km