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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
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Europe
Elmshorn is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Heidgraben, 25km from Tierpark Hagenbeck.
Elmshorn is a town located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With a population of 48,703, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Elmshorn sits in Germany, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Berlin time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Elmshorn to your route.
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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Elmshorn is located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe. The coordinates are 53.7491 latitude, 9.6618 longitude.
Elmshorn has a population of approximately 48,703 people, making it a town in Germany.
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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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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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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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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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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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Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.
32 km · about 35 min drive
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