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Altona-Altstadt

Hamburg, Germany · Europe

About Altona-Altstadt

Altona-Altstadt works well as a base: 43km from Lüneburg Heath.

Altona-Altstadt is in Hamburg, Germany, with about 29,000 people. You drive on the right here.

Altona-Altstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈaltoːnə ˈʔaltˌʃtat] , lit. 'Altona-Old town') is a quarter in Hamburg (Germany) that belongs to the Altona borough. The quarter's boundaries are congruent with the historic center of what has been the city of Altona until 1937.

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Within an hour or so of Altona-Altstadt: Landungsbrücken (2 km), Speicherstadt (3 km), Elbphilharmonie (3 km), Miniatur Wunderland (3 km).

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Altona-Altstadt is in Hamburg, Germany.

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Quick Information

Population
29,455
Continent
Europe
Country
Germany
Region
Hamburg
Timezone
Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
53.5502, 9.9465

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Germany

Police
110
Ambulance
112
Fire
112
All emergencies
112
Driving side
right

ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.

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Worth the detour from Altona-Altstadt

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

landmark

Landungsbrücken

Hamburg's bustling floating landing piers on the Elbe, the gateway to harbour cruises and the historic St. Pauli waterfront.

2 km · about 5 min drive

landmark

Speicherstadt

The world's largest warehouse district built on timber-pile foundations, a UNESCO site of red-brick Neo-Gothic buildings laced with canals.

3 km · about 5 min drive

landmark

Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg's stunning concert hall rising like a glass wave atop a former cocoa warehouse on the Elbe, with a free public plaza offering harbour views.

3 km · about 5 min drive

museum

Miniatur Wunderland

The world's largest model railway exhibition in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, with over 16,000 metres of track spanning miniature continents.

3 km · about 5 min drive

museum

Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg

Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.

4 km · about 5 min drive

landmark

Tierpark Hagenbeck

Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.

5 km · about 10 min drive

national park

Lüneburg Heath

A vast purple-blossoming heathland nature reserve, magical when the heather blooms in late summer and crossed by car-free trails.

43 km · about 50 min drive

landmark

Lüneburg Old Town

A charming Hanseatic salt town with crooked gabled houses and a tilting brick skyline, gateway to the heath.

45 km · about 50 min drive

Driving in Germany

Drives on
the right
Petrol
~€1.78/litre
Motorway tolls
None

When to drive here

April to October

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