1200 years from Hammaburg to modern metropolis
How a small old Saxon settlement surrounded by wooden palisades becomes a city of millions with a world port can be traced step by step in Hamburg’s historic old town.
Why the people of Hamburg always look at the world in a slightly different way than the rest of Germany is made tangible by buildings, statues and curious details.
On this private city tour through the historic old town ...
… step by step the people of all times and their decisions will come alive. We take a casual stroll through the centuries and get a better and better picture of how the people of Hamburg cleverly and sometimes with questionable methods founded their success. And the city is resurrected like a phoenix from the ashes of catastrophes, new and ever larger:
the old Hammaburg, the 1200 year old nucleus of the city, verifiable on the cathedral square
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Hamburg’s wealth and success of the 19th century in the splendor of the New City Hall, the New Stock Exchange and Chamber of Commerce as well as the Venetian-style Alster Arcades
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800 years of beer brewing tradition, which founded the prosperity of the city and can be experienced again today in the city’s lively craft beer scene
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Traces of new technologies and innovations such as steamships and paternoster lifts, which make Hamburg a leader in Europe and the world time and again
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Disasters that are overcome and used for new success: the great fire, cholera and the Second World War
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preserved evidence of all epochs: stone foundations of the early days, half-timbered houses of Deichstraße, magnificent office buildings of modern times, the old and new landmarks of St. Michaelis and Elbphilharmonie
A guided tour through Hamburg’s historic old town can be combined with almost any other topic in the city centre of Hamburg to create a very personal private city tour into the centuries of the city’s history.
