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Heessen Castle, Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Schloss Heessen is a water castle in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Train station in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Hamm

Hamburg, Germany · Europe

About Hamm

Hamm works well as a base: 43km from Lüneburg Heath.

Hamm is in Hamburg, Germany, with about 38,000 people. You drive on the right here.

Hamm (German pronunciation: [ham] ) is a quarter in the borough of Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany. Once a popular garden suburb of rich traders and merchants, in the first half of the 20th century it grew to become one of the most populated quarters of Hamburg. In the Second World War, however,

Read more the area was mostly flattened. As of 2020 the population was 37,989. Between 1951 and 2010 Hamm was subdivided into three neighborhoods: Hamm-Nord, -Mitte und -Süd (Hamm-North, -Middle, and South). On 1 January 2011, this subdivision was repealed and the three were again combined.

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What is there to see near Hamm?

Within an hour or so of Hamm: Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg (4 km), Speicherstadt (5 km), Elbphilharmonie (5 km), Miniatur Wunderland (5 km).

Where is Hamm?

Hamm is in Hamburg, Germany.

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Quick Information

Population
37,989
Continent
Europe
Country
Germany
Region
Hamburg
Timezone
Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
53.5549, 10.0574

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 Hamm

8 notable places within an hour's 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

Speicherstadt

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

5 km · about 10 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.

5 km · about 10 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.

5 km · about 10 min drive

landmark

Landungsbrücken

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

6 km · about 10 min drive

landmark

Tierpark Hagenbeck

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

9 km · about 15 min drive

landmark

Lüneburg Old Town

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

41 km · about 50 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

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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