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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
25 km · about 30 min drive
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Elmshorn
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Europe
About Elmshorn
Elmshorn is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Heidgraben, 25km from Tierpark Hagenbeck.
Elmshorn is in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, with about 49,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Heidgraben, about 5 km away.
Elmshorn (German pronunciation: [ɛlmsˈhɔʁn] ; Low German: Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein,Read more
Germany. It is the birthplace of writer and editor Hermann Schlüter (1851–1919), the mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) and the medievalist Heinz Woehlk (1944- ).
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What is there to see near Elmshorn?
Within an hour or so of Elmshorn: Tierpark Hagenbeck (25 km), Landungsbrücken (30 km), Elbphilharmonie (31 km), Miniatur Wunderland (31 km).
Where is Elmshorn?
Elmshorn is in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, about 5 km from Heidgraben.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 48,703
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.7491, 9.6618
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 Elmshorn
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
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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.
30 km · about 35 min 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.
31 km · about 35 min drive
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Miniatur Wunderland
The world's largest model railway exhibition in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, with over 16,000 metres of track spanning miniature continents.
31 km · about 35 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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
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Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg
Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.
32 km · about 35 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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