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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Borstel-Hohenraden
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Europe
About Borstel-Hohenraden
Borstel-Hohenraden works well as a base: 5 minutes from Rellingen, 60km from Lüneburg Heath.
Borstel-Hohenraden is in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, with about 2,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Rellingen, about 4 km away.
Borstel-Hohenraden is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The municipality Borstel-Hohenraden (about 2,250 inhabitants) with the districts Borstel and Hohenraden is located northeast of the county town Pinneberg. National road no. 76 leads through the town, connecting PinnebergRead more
and Quickborn and interconnects with the two highways Hamburg-Kiel and Hamburg Itzehoe.
The first mention of Borstel (Borstele) dates back to 1388. The first mention of the local part Hohenraden (Hohenrade) goes back to the year 1638. In 1988 the municipality of Borstel-Hohenraden celebrated the 600th anniversary of its first mention recorded mention on May 19, 1388.
On the origin and meaning of the name: "Tho the Borstelde" in "Kerspell Rellinghen" clearly indicate our Borstel. Over the centuries, the name of Borstelde over Borstele, Borstell, Borsteler altered, Barstell to Borstel (the Urdorf). Originally, the name comes from the Old Saxon "bur" = home and "Stal" = location facility. The name can be found very often, not only in Schleswig-Holstein, but also in Hamburg and Lower Saxony. The name of the daughter of the village Hohenraden indicates a later scale of Borstelern cleared area. As late as 1688, this place was called "the Hohenrade" and only in the 19th century is the place named Hohenraden. Rade (Rode) means clearing, so the high-altitude clearance. It was also suggested that it was the settlement that was only with the "high wheel" available.
Structurally, the municipality Borstel-Hohenraden has developed in recent years from a farming village into a residential community. The aim is to preserve the functions of housing and agriculture alike. The community is faced with the task of infrastructural measures to improve the quality of living for the people living in the municipality inhabitants constantly.
In the municipality of Borstel-Hohenraden following communal facilities are to be found:
Primary school with a gymnasium for multipurpose use Sportstättenanlage'mit lawn and Grand Place and two beach volleyball courts kindergarten operated by the St. John Regional Association eV Hamburg playgrounds Following the sister station of diaconal nursing and care of the Lutheran. Parish in Kummerfeld Fire Department (Fire Station and Fire Brigade classroom building complex at the school at the Quickborner Straße) clubs and associations.
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Within an hour or so of Borstel-Hohenraden: Tierpark Hagenbeck (13 km), Landungsbrücken (18 km), Speicherstadt (19 km), Elbphilharmonie (19 km).
Where is Borstel-Hohenraden?
Borstel-Hohenraden is in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, about 4 km from Rellingen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 2,064
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.6833, 9.8167
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 Borstel-Hohenraden
7 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.
18 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Lüneburg Heath
A vast purple-blossoming heathland nature reserve, magical when the heather blooms in late summer and crossed by car-free trails.
60 km · about 70 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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