Alster, Binnen- und Außenalster

An der Alster
20148 Hamburg

Inner Alster covers 18 hectares and is the most prominent feature of the centre of Hamburg. It is flanked by three boulevards, the Ballindamm, the Neuer Jungfernstieg and the Jungfernstieg. The white boats, the "Alsterdampfer" depart from the Jungfernstieg for a tour across the Alster or along the canals. Outer Alster: The districts Rotherbaum, Harvestehude and Uhlenhorst border on the Outer Alster which covers 164 hectares. When the city of Hamburg expanded in the 19th century, numerous houses and villas were built around the lake. As part of the International Horticultural Show of 1953, the Harvestehude shore of the Alster and its private gardens were turned into a park. The outer Alster is a very popular place to sail yachts.

Contact Information

Billstraße 84
20539 Hamburg

Person of contact: Herr Mähl
wilhelm.maehl@bue.hamburg.de

Phone: 040/ 428 40 3503

Locations in the vicinity

Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Kirchenallee 39 - 20099 Hamburg
A baroque theatre house: Germany’s largest national drama theatre was built by the architects Ferdinand Feller and Hermann Helmer after a Viennese example and seats an audience of 1200 people.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Steintorplatz 1 - 20099 Hamburg
The MKG’s collections have been gathered over generations. Today it is a universal museum, presenting over 500 000 works showcasing human creativity and inventiveness at their best. The high calibre collection spans over 4000 years of human history from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism to Modernity and the present.
The Period Rooms are a special attraction. Presenting media, furniture and all kinds of objects together, these rooms illustrate the lifestyle of diverse epochs. The Milde-Speckter-Rooms represent bourgeois living during Classicism. With its Gründerzeit concert room splendour the Hall of Mirrors remains a social centre of Hamburg today. In 2012 Verner Panton’s dazzling Canteen designed for the SPIEGEL Publishing House, an icon of Pop Art, is being installed at the MKG.
The MKG rents out its prestigious rooms as venues for your private and public events: the Spiegelsaal, the Vestibül and – since November 2012 – the SPIEGEL-Kantine by Verner Panton. These historical rooms provide a special ambiente for readings, concerts, dinners, parties, banquets or balls. What is more, the MKG, with its many-faceted ambiente, is available as a location for photo shoots and films.
Europapassage
Ballindamm 40 - 20095 Hamburg
On Oct.5th 2006 the Europa Passage did open their doors. It is located between Mönckebergstraße and Ballindamm. Hadi Teherani, an architect from Hamburg, created the passage. Therefore, some historical buildings have been cut down under protest to realize the plan of the Europa Passage. Today 16 billion people visit it for going shopping and eating every year.
Dammtorbahnhof
Theodor-Heuss-Platz - 20354 Hamburg
Modelled after the Friedrichstrasse and Alexanderplatz train stations in Berlin, the Dammtor train station, also simply called the Dammtor, was designed as an elevated railway. Broad Jugendstil, rustic stone facades and an ornate steel and glass roof are the impressive features of this carefully-restored train station. The entrance to the station is at ground level, the platforms are located above. In the vicinity of the building lies the old botanical garden. The Dammtor is Hamburg´s third train station in the city, the main station and the train station in Altona being the other two.