Tourist attractions Wedel

This splendid lake is excellent for sailing. A boat tour lets you see the five towers of the main churches of the city in one go and the campanile of the Town Hall. The lovely viewpoints justify the names of the banks, Fernsicht and Schöne Aussi..

The old town is renowned for the quantity and the quality of its half-timbered houses, each of which is more beautiful than the other. Like most of the buildings in the old town, the majority were rebuilt after the great fire of 1659 which destroyed ..

Built in 1907, this zoo was born from a century of family tradition in capturing and selling on wild animals, dressage and the circus. Its surroundings (a lake and tree-lined spaces) are apt for walking through. There are 2,500 animals from 360 speci..

This museum (Altonaer Museum in Hamburg - Norddeutsches Landesm) depicts daily life and traditional activities in the lower valley of the Elba and Schleswig-Holstein. Aside from its craft department and art gallery, there is an admirable collection o..

The Stintfang offers a good view over the port with its 60 basins and 68 km of quays. The port's reputation is founded on its efficiency, wide range of machines, warehouses and transportation adapted for unloading and storing all sorts of merchandise..

After the Habsburgs joined the German Customs Union, the construction of a free trade zone became necessary. From 1885 an entire district around the Zollkanal was torn down to make way for the Speicherstadt warehouses. Today, the 373 000m2 complex st..

The building contains collections that evoke the commercial history of Stade and its system of fortifications. The prehistory section exhibits four bronze wheels dating from 700 BC.

Aside from the models of old Hamburg, the museum also houses a vast department devoted to the port and sailing (more than 100 boat models). It also includes the scale model of the town's rail network and historical fashion accessories, clothes and fu..

This Baroque church dates back to 1762 and is surprising for its size and the amount of light in it. It was built by the architect Sonnin, one of the best representatives of the Baroque tradition in Northern Germany. Its famous tower (Turm der Mich..

This is the world's largest model railway exhibition, spanning over 4 000m 2 . Seven hundred trains run in sets inspired by Scandinavia, the US and the North Sea etc. It is constantly being extended with new sets.

In the middle of the Binnenalster basin, this famous street is the cosmopolitan heart of the city, with its lively terraces on the Alsterpavillon and the boat traffice along the Alster.

In an English-style park where exotic essences grow, this neo-classical house (1831-1834) has some beautifully furnished rooms that give an overview of bourgeois interiors at the end of the Renaissance period until the appearance of Art Nouveau.

This house was designed to receive the personal collection of the cigarette makerHermann F Reemtsma. It houses many sculptures, wood engravings and drawings by Ernst Barlach, born in Wedel on the outskirts of Hamburg .

To each side of this winding basin very beautiful and meticulously restored houses make up a setting that makes us dream of how the town must have looked in the 17C.

The odyssey of The Beatles, from their early days on Hamburg's rock scene to world fame, is retraced in this lively museum. You can record a song in the Abbey Road studios and visit the famous yellow submarine.

Sankt-Pauli is laid out around Reeperbahn, the main thoroughfare, and is home to the Davidwache , the city's main police station. It had its golden age in the 1960s, when The Beatles played at the Star Club on Große Freiheit . At that time its imag..

On the chevet of St Michael's Church, if you enter n°10 on Kayenkamp, you will find some surprising wood and brick maisonnettes built in 1670 as social housing. Now, they are a series of art galleries.

The old town stretches from the Nikolaifleet, the basin for river sailing and tugboats (Binnenhafen) and the Zollkanal. Despite the air raids of the Second World War, old Hamburg has not entirely disappeared. Take a stroll through the old town, even ..

This museum housed in a converted red-brick warehouse retraces a century of history in this dockland neighbourhood. Measuring instruments and storage tools, sacks of coffee and other merchandise, photos and layouts illustrating the phases of its deve..

This is where the fire of 1842 started. It is lined with merchants' houses from the 17 and 18C that now house taverns. The warehouses with their restored façades face the Nikolaifleet canal, a picture-postcard view of old Hamburg. The Hohe Brücke b..