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Landungsbrücken
Hamburg's bustling floating landing piers on the Elbe, the gateway to harbour cruises and the historic St. Pauli waterfront.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Buxtehude
Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
About Buxtehude
Buxtehude works well as a base: 10 minutes from Apensen, 42km from Lüneburg Heath.
Buxtehude is in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 38,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Apensen, about 6 km away.
Buxtehude (German pronunciation: [bʊkstəˈhuːdə] ; Low German: Buxthu, pronounced [bʊkstˈhu]), officially the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude (German: Hansestadt Buxtehude), is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany, belonging to the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region andRead more
attached to the city's S-Bahn rapid transit network. Buxtehude is a medium-sized town and the second largest municipality in the Stade district (Landkreis). It lies on the southern border of the Altes Land in close proximity to the city-state of Hamburg. To the west lie the towns of Horneburg and Stade and to the south there are a number of incorporated villages featuring mostly upscale housing; e.g., Ottensen and Apensen.
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What is there to see near Buxtehude?
Within an hour or so of Buxtehude: Landungsbrücken (20 km), Elbphilharmonie (21 km), Miniatur Wunderland (21 km), Speicherstadt (22 km).
Where is Buxtehude?
Buxtehude is in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 6 km from Apensen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 38,192
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Lower Saxony
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.4699, 9.6897
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Germany
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 Buxtehude
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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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.
21 km · about 25 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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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Speicherstadt
The world's largest warehouse district built on timber-pile foundations, a UNESCO site of red-brick Neo-Gothic buildings laced with canals.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
22 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg
Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.
22 km · about 25 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.
42 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.
54 km · about 60 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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