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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Wilhelmsburg
Hamburg, Germany · Europe
About Wilhelmsburg
Wilhelmsburg works well as a base: 10 minutes from Harburg, 36km from Lüneburg Heath.
Wilhelmsburg is in Hamburg, Germany, with about 53,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Harburg, about 4 km away.
Wilhelmsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlmsˌbʊʁk] ; Low German: Willemsborg) is a quarter (Stadtteil) of Hamburg, Germany within the borough (Bezirk) of Hamburg-Mitte. It is situated on several islands between the Northern and Southern branches of the Elbe river (Norderelbe and Süderelbe), together with the otherRead more
quarters of Steinwerder, Veddel and Kleiner Grasbrook. The latter almost exclusively consists of facilities of the port of Hamburg. In 2020 the population was 53,064.
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What is there to see near Wilhelmsburg?
Within an hour or so of Wilhelmsburg: Speicherstadt (6 km), Elbphilharmonie (6 km), Miniatur Wunderland (6 km), Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg (6 km).
Where is Wilhelmsburg?
Wilhelmsburg is in Hamburg, Germany, about 4 km from Harburg.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 53,064
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Hamburg
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.4928, 10.0137
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 Wilhelmsburg
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
6 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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
museum
Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg
Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.
6 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.
7 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
13 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.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Lüneburg Old Town
A charming Hanseatic salt town with crooked gabled houses and a tilting brick skyline, gateway to the heath.
38 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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