Old Botanical Garden

Old Botanical Garden is a park in Hamburg, Hamburg. Old Botanical Garden is situated nearby to the garden Mittelmeerterrassen, as well as near the square Dag-Hammarskjöld-Platz.

Type: Park
Also known as: “Alter Botanischer Garten”
Postal code: 20354

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include national opera Hamburg and Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg.

national opera Hamburg

Theater building

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The Hamburg State Opera is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since the 2025/26 season, the Intendant of the company is Tobias Kratzer, and the Generalmusikdirektor is Omer Meir Wellber. national opera Hamburg is situated 390 metres south of Old Botanical Garden.

Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg

Park

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The Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg, sometimes also known as the Schaugewächshaus or the Tropengewächshäuser, is a botanical garden now consisting primarily of greenhouses in the Planten un Blomen park of Hamburg, Germany. Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg is situated 100 metres southwest of Old Botanical Garden.

Hamburg Dammtor station

Railway stop

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Hamburg Dammtor is a railway station for long distance, regional and suburban trains on the Hamburg-Altona link line, located in Central Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg Dammtor station is situated 170 metres northeast of Old Botanical Garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rotherbaum and Neustadt-Altstadt.

Rotherbaum

Suburb

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Rotherbaum is a quarter of Eimsbüttel, a borough of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020, the population was 17,114. In German, "roter Baum" means red tree. The "th", which in general was abolished in the spelling reform of 1900, was preserved in names.

Neustadt-Altstadt

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The city centre of Hamburg is formed by the districts of Altstadt and Neustadt, as well as the new district of Hafencity immediately south of Altstadt.