A story about Germany. German language topic - Hamburg Hamburg message in German

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland liegt in Mitteleuropa und grenzt an Dänemark im Norden, an Polen und die Tschechische Republik im Osten, an Österreich und die Schweiz im Süden, an Frankreich, Luxemburg, Belgien und die Niederlande im Westen. Die Nord- und die Ostsee bilden eine natürliche Grenze im Norden.

Die deutschen Landschaften sind vielfältig: vom Norddeutschen Tiefland im Norden bis zum Mittelgebirge in Mitteldeutschland und bis zum Hochgebirge im Süden. Im Süden liegt auch das süddeutsche Alpenvorland. Der höchste deutsche Berg die Zugspitze liegt in den Bayerischen Alpen.

Der größte Fluss Deutschlands ist der Rhein. Er entspringt in den Alpen und mündet in die Nordsee. Die anderen großen Flüsse sind die Elbe, die Weser, die Donau. Der größte Binnensee ist der Bodensee. Er liegt im Süden des Landes.

Die Landschaft Deutschlands ist auch von Waldern geprägt. Sie nehmen fast ein Drittel des Landes ein. Gut bekannt sind der Schwarzwald und der Thüringer Wald.

Klimatisch liegt Deutschland in einer Zone, in der es keine extremen Temperaturen gibt. Im Sommer ist es nicht sehr warm, im Winter nicht sehr kalt. Das Klima ist gemäßigt mit Niederschlägen zu jeder Jahreszeit. Das Wetter ist oft wechselhaft.

Deutschland ist ein Bundesstaat, der aus 16 Bundesländern besteht. Jedes Bundesland hat sein Parliament, seine Regierung und Ministerien.

Die Hauptstadt Deutschlands ist Berlin. Es ist die größte Stadt des Landes. Die weiteren Großstädte sind Hamburg und München.

Das Staatsoberhaupt des Landes ist der Bundespräsident. Das Parliament heist der Bundestag. Er wählt den Bundeskanzler, der die Regierungspolitik bestimmt.

Deutschland gehört zu den führenden Industrieländern der Welt. Zu den bedeutendsten Bodenschätzen des Landes gehören Stein- und Braunkohle, Salz. Es gibt Eisenerz, Erdöl und Erdgas, die in bedeutenden Mengen aber eingeführt werden.

Translation

The Federal Republic of Germany is located in Central Europe and borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea form a natural border in the north.

German landscapes are varied, from the North German lowlands in the north to the mid-height mountains in Central Germany to the highlands in the south. To the south also lie the South German Alpine Foothills. The highest German mountain, the Zugspitze, lies in the Bavarian Alps.

The largest river in Germany is the Rhine. It originates in the Alps and flows into the North Sea. Other large rivers are the Elbe, the Weser, the Danube. The largest lake is Lake Constance. It lies in the south of the country.

The landscape of Germany is also characterized by forests. They occupy almost one third of the country. The Black Forest and the Thuringian Forest are well known to everyone.

If we talk about the climate, then Germany lies in a zone in which there are no low temperatures. Not very warm in summer, not very cold in winter. The climate is temperate with rainfall in every season. The weather is often changeable.

Germany is a federation that consists of 16 federal states. Each federal state has a parliament, its government and ministries.

The capital of Germany is. This is the largest city in the country. The next major cities are Hamburg and Munich.

The head of state of the country is the federal president. The Bundestag functions as a parliament. He chooses the federal chancellor, who determines government policy.

Germany belongs to the leading industrial countries of the world. The most important minerals of the country are coal and brown coal, salt. The country is rich in deposits of iron ore, oil and natural gas, which are mined in significant quantities.

Germany is a country of many cities. According to estimates, there are 2,500 of them (together with villages).

Cities with a population of 100,000 people are already considered large in Germany and are called Großstadt. There are 80 of these in the country. Of these, four - namely Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, München - are cities with a population of one million - the number of which has exceeded one million people.

In this note, German cities will be given in German. More precisely, 100 of them are the largest or most popular. Next to each city name, even the number of inhabitants in it is indicated. In addition, the cities in this note are structured in a convenient way: according to the lands in which they settled. After all, as you know, Germany consists of 16 lands, and about six of them I have already written history in detail

German cities in German

The names of the German states are marked in red, and the name of the capital of this state is marked in bold italics.

Hamburg – Hamburg

Hamburg – Hamburg– 1,786,450 people

Schleswig-Holstein – Schleswig-Holstein

Kiel - Kiel - 239 500

Flensburg – Flensburg – 90,000
Lübeck – Lübeck – 210 230

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Mecklenburg - Vorpommern

Schwerin – Schwerin – 95 220

Rostock – Rostock – 202 700
Stralsund – Stralsund – 57,670
Wismar - Wismar - 44,400 people

Greifswald - Greifswald - 54,600

Niedersachsen – Lower Saxony

Hannover – Hannover – 522 700
Cuxhaven – Cuxhaven – 54,400
Oldenburg – Oldenburg – 162 170
Celle – Celle – 70 240
Wolfsburg - Wolfsburg - 121 500

Osnabrück - Osnabrück - 164 100
Braunschweig - Braunschweig - 249,000
Hildesheim – Hildesheim – 103,000
Goslar - Goslar - 41,000
Göttingen – Göttingen – 121 060

Bremen – Bremen

Bremen - Bremen - 548 000
Bremerhaven - Bremen port - 113 370

Sachsen-Anhalt – Saxony-Anhalt

Magdeburg – Magdeburg – 231 500
Quedlinburg – Quedlinburg – 28 420
Halle - Halle (Halle) - 233,000
Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – 49,500

Brandenburg – Brandenburg

Potsdam - Postdam – 156 900
Brandenburg an der Hafel - Brandenburg an der Hafel - 71,800
Eisenhüttenstadt - Eisenhüttenstadt - 31 130 (and once the city with such a complex name was Stalinstadt)
Cottbus - Cottbus - 103,000

Berlin - Berlin

Berlin - Berlin – 3 460 725

Sachsen - Saxony

Dresden – Dresden – 523 100
Leipzig – Leipzig – 522 800
Meißen – Meissen – 27 545
Chemnitz - Chemnitz - 243 250
Zwickau - Zwickau - 93 800

Hesse – Hesse

Wiesbaden – Wiesbaden – 276 000

Frankfurt am Main - Frankfurt am Main - 680,000
Kassel - Kassel - 195 500
Marburg – Marburg – 80 700
Fulda - Fulda - 65,000

Offenbach – Offenbach – 121,000
Darmstadt - Darmstadt - 145,000

Thüringen - Thuringia

Erfurt – Erfurt – 206 000
Eisenach - Eisenbach - 43,000
Jena - Jena - 105 500
Weimar - Weimar (Weimar) - 66,000

Nordrhein-Westfalen - North Rhine-Westphalia

There are many big cities in this land...

Koln – Cologne – 1 010 000
Essen - Essen - 575,000
Bielefeld - Bielefeld - 324,000
Münster - Münster - 280,000

Paderborn – Paderborn – 147,000
Dortmund - Dortmund - 582,000
Bochum - Bochum - 375,000
Oberhausen - Oberhausen - 213,000

Duisburg - Disburg - 490,000
Krefeld - Krefeld - 235,000
Wuppertal - Wuppertal - 351,000
Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf - 589,000

Bergisch Gladbach - Bergisch Gladbach - 106,000
Aachen - Aachen - 260,000
Bonn - Bonn - 325,000

Rheinland-Pfalz - Rhineland-Palatinate

Mainz – Mainz – 200 000

Trier - Trier - 107,000

Koblenz - Koblenz - 107,000
Worms - Worms - 82,000

Kaiserslautern - Kaiserslautern - 100,000
Neustadt an der Weinstraße - Neustadt an der Weinstraße - 53,000
Speyer - Speyer - 50,000

Saarland - Saarland

Saarbrücken – Saarbrücken 176 000
Völklingen - Völklingen - 40,000

Baden-Württemberg – Baden-Württemberg

Stuttgart – Stuttgart – 607 000
Mannheim - Mannheim - 315,000
Heidelberg – Heidelberg – 147,000
Heilbronn – Heilbronn – 123,000

Schwäbisch Hall - Schwäbisch Hall - 38,000
Karlsruhe - Karlsruhe - 296,000
Baden-Baden - Baden-Baden - 55,000
Esslingen am Neckar - Esslingen am Neckar - 93,000

Tübingen – Tübingen – 89,000
Ulm – Ulm – 123,000
Freiburg – Freiburg – 225,000
Ravensburg - Ravensburg - 50,000
Konstanz - Konstanz - 86 000

Bayern - Bavaria

Munich – Munich – 1 354 000
Coburg - Coburg - 42,000
Schweinfurt - Schweinfurt - 54,000
Aschaffenburg - Aschaffenburg - 69,000

Würzburg - Würzburg - 134,000
Bamberg – Bamberg – 70,000
Bayreuth - Bayreuth - 135,000
Erlangen - Erlangen - 106,000

Furth - Furth - 115,000
Nürnberg – Nuremberg – 506,000
Rothenburg ob der Tauber – Rothenburg ob der Tauber – 11,025
Regensburg - Regensburg - 105,000

Ingolstadt - Ingolstadt - 126,000
Passau - Passau - 51,000
Augsburg - Augsburg - 265,000
Fussen - Fussen - 14 300

By the way, if you want to write a story about German cities in German - more precisely, about one of them - you need to look at.

Basic moments

The city was not lucky: in 845 Hamburg was burned by the Vikings. Over the next 300 years, it burned and was rebuilt eight times. In 1842, a three-day fire destroyed more than a quarter of the city. With the expansion of the port area in the 1880s. part of the old building was destroyed. During the Second World War, 55 thousand people died in the city. Over half of the houses, 80% of port facilities and 40% of industrial enterprises turned into piles of stones. Is it any wonder that there are almost no monuments of the medieval past left in Hamburg?

Buses run along the city streets, the engines of which burn hydrogen; such cars do not pollute the air at all. Hamburg has 70 bicycle storage and rental stations. In 2011, the city received the title of capital of Europe for the protection of the environment.

Story

The city was founded by Louis the Pious around 811 under the name Hammaburg (Hammaburg)- Forest town. Archbishop Ansgar, canonized in 865 for his merits in spreading Christianity in northern Germany and Scandinavia, conducted his missionary activity from here.

By the end of the XI century. the rapid development of Hamburg was due to brisk trade. In 1189 Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa granted him important customs and economic privileges. In the same year, the port of Hamburg began its work. The city was one of the first to join the Hansa and was in this union for more than three centuries. Kings and princes never ruled the city, its fate was always determined by the citizens themselves.

Thanks to powerful fortifications, Hamburg managed to survive the Thirty Years' War without great losses. By the end of the XVII century. it already had 70 thousand inhabitants and was the second largest after Cologne.

From the beginning of the 17th century Hamburg merchants regularly visit the largest Russian commercial port of Arkhangelsk at that time. Of the 40-50 European ships that annually arrived at this port, eight were from Hamburg.

Official name "Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg" (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg) he purchased in 1819.

In 1678, Germany's first permanent opera house was founded here. Composers J. L. F. Mendelssohn were born in Hamburg (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847) and I. Brahms (1833- 1897) .

During World War II, the city was bombed several times by Anglo-American aircraft. As a result of Operation Gomorrah on July 25 - August 3, 1943, more than 50,000 people died and most of the city buildings were destroyed from the bombing and the gigantic fire caused by them.

Hamburg has the right to be called the second home of the Beatles. In 1960-1962 they played in it every night for at least 8 hours. Paul McCartney once said: "Hamburg is 800 hours of rehearsals."

Glorious musical traditions are continued by three large symphony orchestras and many other diverse creative teams. Center of Musical Life of the City - Musical Hall (Musikhalle, neo-baroque, 1904-1908). Hamburg State Opera (Hamburgische Staatsoper) in terms of mastery, the production of classical and contemporary works is on a par with the world's leading opera houses.

For tours of foreign theater groups, the workshop of the former Kampnagel crane plant was adapted ("Kampnagel") in the Barmbek district, where the famous musical "Cats" was performed ("Cats") Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Hamburg today

Currently, Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and the country's second largest industrial center. Main Landmarks - TV Tower (Heinrich-Hertz-Fernmeldeturm, northwest of the center) and the bronze spire of St. Michael's Church (St. Michaeliskirche, in the center). The appearance of Hamburg is largely determined by water. There are more than 2500 bridges in the city.

Most of the sights of Hamburg are concentrated in the central part, bounded from the south by the Elbe and its channels, and from all other sides by the exaggerated former city ramparts, the existence of which is now only reminded by the names of the streets laid instead of them: they all end in -wall (German wall - "shaft").

This semicircle is bisected by the mouth of the Alster River, which has been turned into a canal. (Alsterfleet) and artificial ponds Outer and Inner Alster (Aussenalster and Binnenalster).

Southeast of the latter - Old Town (Alte Stadt), and to the northwest - the New City (Neustadt).

Hamburg is divided into several districts, very different from each other. The center of the modern city coincides with the old city, which was seriously damaged by a fire in 1842.

Like other big cities in Germany, Hamburg has double-decker guided tour buses. However, seeing the sights with the help of transport, with a breeze, is almost the same as seeing a documentary film about the city. Convenient, interesting, but quickly forgotten. Only what you walk around with your feet, slowly examine, remains in you.

Center of Hamburg

The bridge is thrown over the canal connecting the ponds. It offers a very beautiful view of the center of Hamburg.

Jungfernstieg Promenade

This promenade - wide and elegant - stretches along the southwestern shore of the lake. Here the marina of pleasure boats, cafes, the Alster pavilion (Alsterpavilion).

Grosse Bleichen and next to it are the most sophisticated shopping arcades: "Hanse" ("Hanse Viertel"), "Gallery" ("Gallery"), Goose Bazaar ("Gaensemarkt"), "Old Post" ("Alte Post"), "New Goose Bazaar" ("Neuer Gaensemarkt"), "Bleichenhof" ("Bleichenhof") and etc.

Town Hall

In the luxurious building of the town hall, built in the neo-Renaissance style (1886- 1897) , sits the state government. It has 647 superbly finished rooms. The town hall is decorated with a 112-meter tower. During the day, excursions are organized for tourists in the building.

Church of St. Peter (St. Petrikirche)

This church is from the 12th century. with a 133-meter tower is located next to the town hall. It is the oldest in Hamburg. The church acquired its neo-Gothic appearance after the fire of 1842 and the subsequent reconstruction. Pay attention to the figure of the Mother of God (1470) .

Church of St. Jacob (St. Jacobikirche)

Built at the end of the XIV century. the church was restored in 1959. Its interior has a medieval altar and an organ - one of the best works of master Arp Schnitger.

House of Chile (Chilehaus)

This is one of the architectural symbols of the city, a vivid example of expressionism in architecture. (architect F. Heger, 1920-1923). Part of this brick building protrudes sharply forward, resembling the prow of a ship. The name of the house is due to the fact that the customer of the building, businessman G. Solomon, imported Chilean nitrate to Germany, from which smokeless powder and fertilizers were made.

Church of St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche)

The church was destroyed during World War II. Only a 147-meter tower has survived from it. Now in its basement there is a museum that tells about the bombing of the city.

Dam Street (Deichstrasse)

The street runs parallel to the Nikolai Canal (Nikolaifleet) and built up with houses of the XVII-XIX centuries. with high and narrow facades. This is the last untouched urban development of traditional Hamburg architecture.

Warehouse City (Speicherstadt)

"City of warehouses" built in the late 19th century. located on Brokinsel Island (brookinsel). Old brick buildings, sometimes up to seven stories high, line the narrow canals that cut through the island. They kept carpets, tea, coffee, spices. The canals do not have embankments: sailboats and steam ships moored right at their walls. With the help of ropes stretched through the blocks, bags of colonial goods from the holds of ships were lifted to the warehouses. And from the opposite side of the warehouse, at the right time, the goods were lowered onto carts, later into trucks.

Now the technology has changed: most goods are delivered in containers. They are directly from the ships, bypassing warehouses, are reloaded into railway cars or cars.

The "city of warehouses" has now lost its purpose, now offices, restaurants, and museums are located here. (If you're lucky, you can sometimes see how carpets are unloaded from the warehouse in the old fashioned way.)

It can also be viewed from the board of a pleasure tourist boat. (departure from St. Paul's Piers).

Port

Hamburg is Germany's gateway to the world. Everyone who arrives in the city should visit the port - one of the largest in the world. More than half of German exports and imports pass through it. The total length of the berthing line is about 275 km. Approximately 12,000 ships arriving from all over the world are served here annually. You can see the tourist steamer with stern wheels - such sailed a century and a half ago along the Mississippi - and a modern bulk carrier carrying so many containers that only dozens of trains can carry them overland. Hundreds of different ships, a forest of port cranes, docks where ships are being repaired, warehouses and fuel tanks. An unforgettable experience can be obtained by making a circular trip on a tourist ship. In the center of the harbor, close to St. Paul's Piers (St. Pauli Landungbruecke), at the eternal parking lot there is a banana carrier ship-museum "Cape San Diego" ("Cap San Diego"), nicknamed the "White Swan of the Atlantic". Nearby is the sailing ship Rickmer Rickmers, built in 1896 in Bremerhaven, now there is a restaurant on board.

Early Sunday morning it is interesting to visit the Fish Market (Fischmarkt). It is located in the port, just below the Reeperbahn. Every night from Saturday to Sunday pallets of seafood are unloaded from the refrigerators of fishing boats. City elders from the time of opening in 1703 allowed trade only from 4.00 to 10.00, that is, before the start of the church service. The Fish Market sells not only fish, but also other products at prices lower than in ordinary stores. Everything has been preserved the same as in the beginning of the 20th century: marble tables, ceramic jugs, an accordion player plays sea melodies at the entrance. If desired, you can drink a mug of mulled wine or a glass of hot punch.

Sea bass and flounder, smelt and herring are laid out on the pier in wooden boxes covered with ice (fried herring is one of the favorite treats in northern Germany). Mountains of mollusks and arthropods rise on long counters.

Nearby, at the port piers of Landungsbrücken (Landungsbrucken) curious to see the old tunnel under the Elbe (Alter Elbtunnel, 448 m, 1906), leading to the shipyards on the island of Steinwerder (Steinwerder). In 1975 a new tunnel was opened (Neuer Elbtunnel) 3200 m long, depth under the river up to 27 m.

From afar, the 130-meter pylons of the new symbol of the city, the highest Kelbrand bridge in the country, are visible. (Kohlbrandbrucke, span height 53 m, length 3.9 km, 1974) through the southern channel of the Elbe in the port area of Hamburg.

Monument to Bismarck (Bismarck-Denkmal)

The monument, built in 1906, rises near the former city ramparts, in the old park above the Elbe (Alter Elbpark). More than 60 m high, it was built on the model of medieval statues of Roland.

St. Paul's area

Not far from the piers of Landungsbrücken on the Elbe, the Reeperbahn, well known to sailors and tourists from all over the world, stretches. (Reeperbahn), which means cable car. It is the busiest in the St. Pauli area, among the red-light districts. Nightlife is in full swing here: brothels, discos, a theater, all kinds of clubs, bars and restaurants.

Church of St. Michael (St. Michaeliskirche)

This late baroque Protestant church (architect E. G. Zonnin, 1750-1762) on Neander street (Neanderstrasse) is the symbol of Hamburg. The locals affectionately call her "Michel". The height of the tower is 132 m. In the old days, the captains of ships sailing to Hamburg first saw the spire of this church on the horizon. From the observation deck on the tower (there is an elevator) opens a magnificent panorama. Next to the church are several old houses built by the trade guild for the widows of merchants.

Other attractions

Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten)

The garden is located behind Gorha Fok Street (Gorch-Fock-Wall). Behind him is the People's Park "Plants and Flowers" (Volkspark Planten und Blomen). It is a recreation center with a music pavilion for outdoor concerts, greenhouses, a Japanese garden, a children's playground and a miniature railway. There is a fountain with color music on the pond.

Congress Center Hamburg

The Congress Center, built in 1973 next to the park, is one of the most modern in Europe. It consists of 17 halls and can accommodate up to 7500 people.

Hamburg Trade Fair (Messegelande, Messe Hamburg)

The fair is adjacent to the Plants and Flowers park. Its territory of about 60 thousand m² accommodates 12 exhibition pavilions.

Television tower them. Heinrich Hertz (Heinrich-Hertz-Fernmeldeturm)

The TV tower is located northwest of the park. Its height is 271.5 m. There is a restaurant on the rotating platform (132 m).

Art Gallery (Kunsthalle)

In the exhibition of the Art Gallery of Hamburg (1850) the art of the 19th-20th centuries is widely represented, including the works of F. O. Runge (1777-1810) and K. D. Friedrich (1774-1840) . Glockengiesserverwall.

Open: Tue, Wed, Fri-Sun 10.00-18.00, Thu 10.00-21.00.

Museum of Ethnography and Primitive History (Museum fur Volkerkunde und Vorgeschichte)

The museum, which opened in 1878, has about 350,000 exhibits! Rothenbaumchaussee, 64. Open: Tue, Wed, Fri-Sun 10.00-18.00, Thu 10.00-21.00.

Submarine U-434 (U-Bootmuseum)

The submarine, made in Russia, is the largest in the world: length - 90 m, width - 9 m, height -15 m. It is powered by diesel engines. St. Pauli, Fischmarkt, 10. Open: Mon-Thu 10.00-18.00, Fri-Sun 9.00-19.00.

Miniature Wonderland (Miniatur-Wunderland)

It's hard to believe this: 700 small locomotives pull freight and passenger trains through cities, forests, mountains, deserts, across bridges over abysses. Day and night change. 10 km of tracks have been installed, 15,000 wagons, 150,000 figures, 200,000 lights, 150,000 trees, 5,000 houses and bridges, 300 vehicles are moving along the roads. Scale 1:87. 36 computers run it all. Over 3 million visitors a year! Kehrwieder 2 (in Warehouse City), Block D.

Open: Mon, Wed-Fri 9.30-18.00, Tue 9.30-21.00, Sat, Sun and public holidays 8.30-20.00.

Emigration Museum Ballinstadt (BallinStadt das Auswanderermuseum)

From 1901 to 1934, about 5 million people left Hamburg for the New World in search of a better life. The camp for departing emigrants has been reconstructed. BallinStadt, Veddeler Bogen, 2. Open: April - October 10.00-18.00, November - March 10.00-16.30.

To visit the numerous Hamburg museums, you can purchase a museum card or a family ticket that is valid for all museums at once.

Hamburg ranks first among European cities in terms of the number of bridges (over 2300). The city has more bridges than Venice (400) , Amsterdam (1200) and London combined.
Hamburg has the world's largest port warehouse district (German Speicherstadt), built at the end of the 19th century on wooden piles driven into the shallow water of the Elbe. With their architectural appearance, smoked red-brick 5-6 storey warehouse buildings located in rows-blocks on the islands in the middle of the Elbe, where canals serve as "streets", in the evening and twilight can serve as an excellent stage for filming movies about Sherlock Holmes based on the novels of Conan Doyle. For tourists, it is considered a good omen - a successful throw from the bridge of a coin "for memory" - on the end of a pile sticking out of the water a few meters from the bridge. The art of throwing is to try so that the coin does not bounce when struck and does not fall into the waters of the canal, but remains lying on a pile.
In Hamburg, the musical group "The Beatles" toured several times, being still known only at home, in Liverpool. Here they decided to recruit Ringo Star and retire drummer Pete Best. Also here, after a short family life, one of the "initiators" of "The Beatles" Stuart Sutcliffe died.

Geography

Hamburg is located in northern Germany on both banks of the Elbe River at the confluence of the Alster and Bille rivers, about 110 km southeast of the place where the Elbe flows into the North Sea. The natural sea harbor extends along the entire length of the Elbe, especially along the southern bank of the Elbe opposite the urban areas of St. Pauli and Altona. City blocks on both sides of the river are connected by many bridges, as well as the old (now pedestrian) and a new tunnel under the Elbe. The natural landscape south and north of the Elbe is called geesta and is a hilly lowland of sand and sedimentary rocks formed by a glacier that descended during the Ice Age.

The federal state of Hamburg is located between the states of Schleswig-Holstein in the north and Lower Saxony in the south.

Logistics and Transport

Germany's largest port is located in Hamburg, which is the third largest in Europe after Rotterdam and Antwerp, as well as the second largest cargo container terminal in Europe.

Hamburg's public transport system includes the underground (German U-Bahn), urban railway (German S-Bahn), suburban trains and buses. All city transport is run by the Hamburg Transport Association (German Hamburger Verkehrsverbund). Fares are determined by zone. There is a flexible fare system that provides for the possibility of purchasing single tickets for different types of transport, for different periods, individually or for a group. Especially for tourists, there is also a preferential card “Hamburg CARD”, which, in addition to the right to travel on all modes of transport, allows you to visit 27 museums of the city free of charge or at a discount, take part in city tours, water walks, etc.

One of the railway directorates of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was located in Hamburg.

Best time to visit

The best time to visit Hamburg is in spring or summer.

Special offers for hotels

What to watch

A boat trip along the harbor and / or along the canals of Hamburg will allow you to admire the wonderful city (you can use the public ferry "HADAG" for this).
Ride the Skytrain from Rodingsmarkt to Landungbrucken. You will have amazing views.
The Baroque Church of St. Michael, built in the 17th century, is one of the most ornate churches in Northern Germany.
Blankenese - a former fishing village on the Elbe - with picturesque streets, small houses and tiny beaches.
A magnificent shopping center with columns of the Victorian era on the shore of the lake is called the Alter Arcades. In 1842, the shopping center suffered a severe fire, but was completely restored.
You can walk in the Old River Tunnel under the Elbe, and the Steinwerder entrance offers an unforgettable view of the city.

The Beatles performed successfully at the Reeperbahn in 1960: 48 shows at the Indra Club and 58 at the Kaiserkeller.

Hamburg is the second largest German city, Germany's main seaport and the largest foreign trade center. There are, for example, hundreds of enterprises from China, Japan and Taiwan. In total, there are more than 3,000 firms that are engaged in export and import. Further cultural and political features of the city, sights.

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"Monologue in German with translation "Hamburg""

Deutschlands Tor zur Welt. Im Stadtstaat Hamburg sorgt der Hafen für den Herzschlag der Wirtschaft. Dass aber alle Ölkonzerne an der Elbe heimisch sind, ist den Tanker-Terminals zu verdanken. Entsprechend groß ist die Nachfrage nach Kultur, die befriedigt wird von renommierten Museen wie der Kunsthalle und von fast 40 Bühnen – einschließlich der Staatsoper mit Ballett- Weltstar John Neumeier. National Champion ist Hamburg bei den Musical-Theatern, die monatlich Tausende von Besuchern in die Stadt locken.

Germany's gateway to the world. In the city-state of Hamburg, the port provides the heartbeat of the economy. However, all oil concerns are located on the Elbe thanks to tanker terminals. Accordingly, the demand for culture is high, which is met by museums such as the Kunsthalle and nearly 40 stages - including the State Opera and Ballet Theater of superstar John Neumeier (an American-born German choreographer). The national champion is Hamburg with its musical theatres, which draw thousands of visitors to the city every month.

Hamburg ist die zweitgrößte deutsche Stadt, der wichtigste Seehafen Deutschlands und größter Außenhandelsplatz. Hier haben sich beispielsweise Hunderte von Unternehmen aus China, Japan und Taiwan angesiedelt. Insgesamt gibt es über 3.000 Firmen, die im Im- und Exportgeschäft tätig sind.

Obwohl Hamburg Deutschlands zweitgrößter Industriestandort und Zentrum einer Metropolregion von vier Millionen Menschen ist, gilt es als eine der grünsten Städte Deutschlands: 40 Prozent der Gesamtfläche sind Acker- und Gartenland, Parks und öffentliche Grünanlagen, Wald, Moor und Heide. Landschafts- und Naturschutzgebiete machen 28 Prozent der Stadtfläche aus. Zu den zahlreichen Parkanlagen kommen mehr als 240.000 Straßenbäume.

Although Hamburg is Germany's second largest industrial center and metropolitan center with four million people, it is considered one of the greenest cities in Germany: 40 percent of the total arable land, parks and public squares, forests, swamps and wastelands. Landscape and natural reserves make up 28 percent of the city. Numerous parks are complemented by more than 240,000 street trees.

Die Kaufmannsstadt Hamburg war und ist als Ort der Freiheit und Toleranz zugleich eine Stadt der Bildung und der Kultur. Zehn Hochschulen machen Hamburg zu einem Zentrum der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung, Forschung und Entwicklung. Die Oper, drei Staatstheater und rund 35 Privattheater tragen ebenso zum kulturellen Profil der Stadt bei wie die außerordentlich qualitätsvolle Sammlung der Kunsthalle.

The trading city of Hamburg has been and remains a place of freedom and tolerance, at the same time a city of education and culture. 10 institutions of higher education make Hamburg a center for education, research and development. The opera house, 3 state theaters and approximately 35 private theaters contribute to the city's cultural profile, as does the exceptionally high quality of the Kunsthalle (Hamburg Art Gallery) collection.

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city-land in Germany on the river. Elbe, 110 km from the North Sea; the second largest city in the country; area 755 km 2, population 1.7 million; bridges and a 450-meter tunnel connect the banks of the Elbe; from the 13th century member of the Hansa; 1815 - free city; transport hub, the most important sea and river port (“das Tor zur Welt”); industrial, financial and cultural center; shipbuilding, aircraft building, electrical engineering, oil refining, chemical industry, non-ferrous metallurgy, film industry; subway, university, Institute for Nuclear Research, State Opera, numerous museums (historical, ethnographic, arts and crafts, etc.), churches (including the Baroque St. Michael's Church with the Michel Tower - the symbol of the city), Hagenbeck Zoo , monument to Heinrich Heine

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