Liam Posted 16 November , 2006 Share Posted 16 November , 2006 Off to Hamburg at Easter on the latest trip for the UK arm of the FC Nuremberg supporters club. I know that there is a large commonwealth cemetery in the city which I plan to visit but is there any other places of interest which would be worthwhile? Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 16 November , 2006 Share Posted 16 November , 2006 The Reeperbahn is one of the great strip club etc places in the world and there is a fine art museum, WW1 no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted 16 November , 2006 Author Share Posted 16 November , 2006 The Reeperbahn is one of the great strip club etc places in the world and there is a fine art museum, WW1 no clue. The Reeperbahn is the only tourist sight I know of and I guess would be worth a visit purely for educational purposes! Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 16 November , 2006 Share Posted 16 November , 2006 Fischmarkt - Pleasant area and it stays open 24 hours on Saturdays.(Think it is Saturday through to Sunday!) Trip around the harbour. The town itself - shops and shops and shops. Little Alster and the Big one (Lakes). Are Nurnburg playing Hamburg that weekend? Hannover 96 for ever. Go on to the hamburg tourist website. Give you plenty of choices. The Saxons who came over here started about a mile from the Reeperbahn area. St Michaels church is amazing even for non believers! Take a city tour and you will visit it. Nice little place nearby for a drink. In fact the city tour is well worth doing. stevem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hederer Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Hamburg is one of our favotires cities in Germany. WW1 related there is the large memorial downtown, another in the park on the way to Eppendorf (spelling?) The old shops there sometimes have interesting finds related to the war. The city itself is great. You could always go to the six-story electronics store, described as "the biggest man-kindergarten in Germany." Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Military cemetery (plot) naturally! Hamburg Cem.: Elliot-Cooper VC The War Cemetery in Hamburg is situated within a large civil cemetery known locally as 'Ohlsdorf Cemetery'. Approaching from Hannover or Kiel, leave the Autoroute A7 at the junction with the 432 following signposts for the Airport (Flughafen). After 2 kilometres turn right onto Swebenweg which later merges with Krohnstieg and passes under the airport runway. After 4 kilometres turn right onto 433 Chaussee. After 2 kilometres turn left onto Erdkampsweg following signs for Barmbek. Continue along this road for 1.7 kilometres then turn right, immediately before a prominent railway bridge, onto a road called Im Grunen Grund. After a further 600 metres turn left into Alsterdorfer. The Cemetery is located in this street at the junction with Fuhlsbuttlerstrasse. Kind regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 The Reeperbahn is one of the great strip club etc places in the world and there is a fine art museum, WW1 no clue. So that's all you visited in Hamburg to include the Victoria's Secret fine art museum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isanders Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Not WW1, but there's a fine example of a WW2 Flak Tower in Hamburg. Click here for Pics of Hamburg Flak Tower Vienna is the only other location where these monsters survive intact. Three were built in Berlin, but all were destroyed or partially destroyed after the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Pity the game is with SV Hamburg rather than St. Pauli as I believe that you can see the flak tower from the latter's ground, which is also near the Reeperbahn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 In addition to the plain and simple memorial column to the fallen of the city near the Binnenalster, there is a much more controversial memorial to IR 76 by the Kennedy Bruecke, which separates the Binnen and Aussenalster, near the city centre. Its problem is that it dates to the 1930s and, to today's pacifist Germans is somewhat politically incorrect. It does come complete with explanatory plaque, which does not stop it from being doused in paint/tar etc at regular intervals. Each time it is cleaned the bas reliefs reduce in thickness a bit more, so eventually the nie wieder Krieg mob will win. One of the problems is that is includes a quotation from Soldatenabschied (The Soldier's Farewell), a poem by Heinrich Lersch, contemporaneous with Lawrence Binyon's For the Fallen, but hijacked subsequently by the Nazis, who distorted its sentimental patriotism for their own ends. The line that causes the trouble is : Deutschland muss leben, und wenn wir sterben muessen! [Germany must live, even if we have to die]. Bad luck Lersch and bad luck the gallant IR 76. Go and see it, IR 76 was an outstanding regiment. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1052 Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 The Hirsch branch of my family emigrated from Altona in about 1862. I passed through Hamburg in 1981 when I was enroute to Bremerhaven to drop off my car for shipment to the States. The thing that struck me about Hamburg was all the high-rise office buildings built since the end of the war. The bombing of civilian targets was one of the great tragedies of World War II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Not WW1, but there's a fine example of a WW2 Flak Tower in Hamburg. Click here for Pics of Hamburg Flak Tower Vienna is the only other location where these monsters survive intact. Three were built in Berlin, but all were destroyed or partially destroyed after the war. ...and a related eye witness story: http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug.../roosen1eng.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 November , 2006 Share Posted 17 November , 2006 some other "preparations" for a Than and Now comparison, highly recommended: http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug.../lange1_eng.htm http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug.../lange2_eng.htm http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug.../klank1_eng.htm http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug...h/hahn1_eng.htm http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug...verding_eng.htm http://www.seniorennet-hamburg.de/zeitzeug...brozzo1_eng.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted 17 November , 2006 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2006 Thanks everyone - not knowing much about Hamburg (apart from Kevon Keegen playing there in the 70's) I wasn't sure whether there would be enough to keep us busy for 5 days although when you have a group of 15 people and a large number of bars we can usually think of something. Definitely going to visit the cemetery and look forward to having a good look round the shops for some memorabilia. Its not until Easter but I will post some pics when I have been. Incidentally, if anyone needs photos please drop me a line. Thanks again Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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