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.
9 km · about 15 min drive
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Harburg
Hamburg, Germany · Europe
About Harburg
Harburg works well as a base: 10 minutes from Wilhelmsburg, 33km from Lüneburg Heath.
Harburg is in Hamburg, Germany, with about 170,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Wilhelmsburg, about 4 km away.
Hamburg-Harburg Rathaus station is a station of the Hamburg S-Bahn on the Harburg S-Bahn in the suburb Harburg in the German city of Hamburg and is capable of serving as a bunker.
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What is there to see near Harburg?
Within an hour or so of Harburg: Speicherstadt (9 km), Elbphilharmonie (9 km), Miniatur Wunderland (9 km), Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg (9 km).
Where is Harburg?
Harburg is in Hamburg, Germany, about 4 km from Wilhelmsburg.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 169,221
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Hamburg
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.4606, 9.9839
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 Harburg
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.
9 km · about 15 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.
9 km · about 15 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.
9 km · about 15 min 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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
15 km · about 30 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.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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Lüneburg Old Town
A charming Hanseatic salt town with crooked gabled houses and a tilting brick skyline, gateway to the heath.
37 km · about 45 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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