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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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
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Harsefeld
Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
About Harsefeld
Harsefeld sits on the route: 10 minutes from Bargstedt, 49km from Lüneburg Heath.
Harsefeld is in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bargstedt, about 4 km away.
Harsefeld (in High German, in Low Saxon: Harsfeld; literally horse field) is a municipality situated south-west of Hamburg (Germany). Harsefeld has a population of c. 12,500 and belongs to the district of Stade, Lower Saxony. Harsefeld is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Harsefeld.
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What is there to see near Harsefeld?
Within an hour or so of Harsefeld: Landungsbrücken (32 km), Elbphilharmonie (33 km), Tierpark Hagenbeck (33 km), Speicherstadt (34 km).
Where is Harsefeld?
Harsefeld is in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 4 km from Bargstedt.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 12,350
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Lower Saxony
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.4536, 9.5044
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 Harsefeld
7 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.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
33 km · about 40 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.
34 km · about 40 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.
34 km · about 40 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.
34 km · about 40 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.
49 km · about 55 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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