Portal:Hamburg/Selected picture/2009
These are selected pictures related to the Hamburg which appear on Portal:Hamburg:
· Selected pictures ·
- Week 1
The door handles at the St. Peter's Church in Hamburg were made of bronze. The handles are the oldest work of art in Hamburg, dated to the construction of the tower in 1342. It survived among others the French occupation (1806–1814) and the Great Fire of 1842, and the bombing of Hamburg in World War II.
Photo credit: Wmeinhart
- Week 2
The Bürgermeister Weichmann (English: Mayor Weichmann) is a Hamburg Water Police boat. Herbert Weichmann (1896–1983) was first mayor of Hamburg during the 1960s.
Photo credit: FAWB
- Week 3
View of the Elbe river in Hamburg, in the middle of the photo is the clock tower of the Landungsbrücken.
Photo credit: Martina Nolte
- Week 4
The music and dance club Große Freiheit 36, located in Große Freiheit, a side street of the Reeperbahn. The club is the former Star-Club in which the Beatles played in the 1960s.
Photo credit: Elwedritsch
- Week 5
A shark swimming in the aquarium of the Tierpark Hagenbeck. The zoo was founded by Carl Hagenbeck in 1907.
Photo credit: Artinzaman
- Week 6
The Hamburg State Opera was founded in 1678, the current opera house was built in 1955.
Photo credit: Andreas Praefcke
- Week 7
Brick warehouses in the Speicherstadt, a large historical area in the port of Hamburg. These houses are located at the Brooksfleet (a water body) next to the HafenCity quarter.
Photo credit: Lukas Kurtz (LuxTonnerre on flickr.com)
- Week 8
According to the constitution of Hamburg, the Parliament is the unicameral legislature of the German state of Hamburg.
Photo credit: Christoph Braun
- Week 9
Nienstedten's Hotelrestaurant Louis C. Jacob is a 1902 painting by Max Liebermann in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Photo credit: Kresspahl
- Week 10
Departure of RMS Queen Mary 2 on the river Elbe after berthing at Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity in July 2004.
Photo credit: Arnold Schott
- Week 11
The Thalia Theater in St. Georg is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg. It was founded in 1843.
Photo credit: AndreasPraefcke
- Week 12
Aerial picture of the island of Neuwerk in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park.
Photo credit: Ralf Roletschek
- Week 13
- Week 14
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Final touches to an US Airways A321 at the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder assembly plant.
Photo credit: DearEdward
- Week 15
Hamburg Planetarium is one of Europe's largest planetaria, located in an old water tower at Hamburg Stadtpark.
Photo credit: FrankBothe
- Week 16
The train, type DT4, of the Hamburg U-Bahn at HafenCity-Universität station.
Photo credit: Pedelecs
- Week 17
Spiegel-Haus in HafenCity, since 2011 headquarter of the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel.
Photo credit: Martina Nolte
- Week 18
The Japanese Garden at Hamburg's Planten un Blomen. Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg visible in the background.
Photo credit: gheeke
- Week 19
Sammlung Falckenberg is a collection of modern and contemporary art in Hamburg. Since 2011 the collection is part of Deichtorhallen, one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography.
Photo credit: Dth-hamburg
- Week 20
Neoclassical Jenisch House (Jenisch-Haus) and Park in Hamburg's western suburb Othmarschen.
Photo credit: Wolfram Gothe
- Week 21
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Europa Passage is a shopping mall designed by Hadi Teherani, and located between Jungfernstieg and Mönckebergstraße, Hamburg's main shopping street.
Photo credit: Nicolas Vollmer
- Week 22
Map of Hamburg and the lower Elbe in the 16th century. Hamburg was member of the Hanseatic League from the 13th to 17th century.
Photo credit: Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724)
- Week 23
Beginner is a German rap group from Hamburg, consisting of Jan Delay (aka Jan Eißfeldt), Denyo and DJ Mad.
Photo credit: Church of emacs
- Week 24
At 963 km length, the Bundesautobahn 7 (BAB 7) is the longest German Autobahn and the longest national motorway in Europe. (Pictured: BAB 7 in Harburg, Hamburg)
Photo credit: Ajepbah
- Week 25
The Vattenfall Cyclassics is an annual one-day pro and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg, established in 1996.
Photo credit: Finanzer
- Week 26
„Diana auf der Hirschkuh“ (Diana on a Doe), a 1918 bronze sculpture by Georg Wrba in Hamburg Stadtpark.
Photo credit: NordNordWest
- Week 27
Launched at Blohm & Voss in 1928, the SS Europa was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to operate on the transatlantic sea route.
Photo credit: Bundesarchiv
- Week 28
Im Hamburger Hafen is an 1891 watercolor painting of the Port of Hamburg by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860–1920).
Photo credit: Anders Leonard Zorn
- Week 29
Neue Elbbrücke is a road bridge across the Norderelbe, connecting Veddel and Rothenburgsort. Originally constructed between 1884 and 1887, the three lenticular trusses (each 102 meters long) make it one of the most peculiar of the 2,500 bridges in Hamburg.
Photo credit: Kai Morgener
- Week 30
Alter Elbpark is a park located between the two Hamburg quarters of Neustadt and St. Pauli, and established in 1906. Notable for the park is a 35 m tall Bismarck Monument. St. Michael's Church is visible to the right.
Photo credit: KaMa Photography
- Week 31
The Tangendorf disc brooch is an Iron Age fibula from the 3rd century AD, and part of the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg.
Photo credit: AxelHH
- Week 32
The Elbphilharmonie was officially inaugurated with concerts of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and a light show on 11 January 2017.
Photo credit: Alexander Svensson
- Week 33
Dock workers in the Port of Hamburg, around 1900.
Photo credit: Johann Hamann
- Week 34
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Panoramic view of the Außenalster, one of two artificial lakes within the city limits of Hamburg.
Photo credit: André H.
- Week 35
Interior of St. Michael's Church, one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches (Hauptkirchen).
Photo credit: Je-str
- Week 36
Landhaus J. C. Godeffroy is a 1792-built manor house on Elbchaussee, Nienstedten, designed by Danish architect Christian Frederik Hansen.
Photo credit: Fraenzel F.
- Week 37
Hamburg Airport was opened in 1911 and is continuously being refitted by Hamburg architecture firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners since 1990.
Photo credit: Medvedev
- Week 38
Scooter are a German techno hard dance group founded in Hamburg, with to date 23 top ten hits and over 30 million sold records.
Photo credit: Jodo
- Week 39
The German beer Astra Urtyp is brewed in Hamburg, by the Bavaria - St. Pauli Brewery. The former independent brewery is now owned by Holsten-Brauerei AG
Photo credit: L. Schröder
- Week 40
The state owned theatre Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg was foundet in 1901.
Photo credit: Metro Centric
- Week 41
Rupolph Dürkopp photographed Hamburg persons in the late 19th and early 20th century. This picture of First Mayor Arnold Diestel was taken in 1905 and published in Hamburgische Männer und Frauen am Anfang des XX. Jahrhunderts (Hamburgian men and women at the beginning of the 20th century), Hamburg. 1905.
Photo credit: Rudolf Dührkoop, (1848–1918)
- Week 42
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A starboard bow view of the German destroyer Hamburg (D-181) as it arrives to participate in the 25th anniversary celebration of German naval aviation training in the United States. The Hamburg is entering the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida.
Photo credit: JO1 Bryant
- Week 43
An aerial view of the Binnenalster viewed from north-west above Harvestehude quarter.
Picture credit: Alchemist-hp
- Week 44
The 216 m (709 ft) long container ship Cosco Brisbane moored at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in the port of Hamburg.
Picture credit: WalkerBoh
- Week 45
The Fischmarkt (lit fish market) on Sundays morning is a tourist attraction, originated from the competition between the cities of Hamburg and (then) independent Altona. Opening on 6 a.m., it closes on 12 o'clock and is located at the Elbe river near Reeperbahn street and Landungsbrücken.
Photo credit: Wmeinhart
- Week 46
A photochrome print of costumes of the Vierlande area in the Bergedorf borough, then an independent city. Done between 1890–1900 this picture is now property of the Library of Congress.
Picture credit: unknown
- Week 47
Spotlights of the water and light concerts in the park Planten un Blomen.
Photo credit: GeorgHH
- Week 48
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An arrest by Hamburg Police during the demonstration at the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) 2007. The police officers wear combat gear with Hamburg patches.
Photo credit: Vanis
- Week 49
The distinctive sharp edge of the Chilehaus building, designed by Fritz Höger, built from 1922 to 1924. The Chilehaus is a ten-story office building and an example of brick expressionism.
Photo credit: Sebastian Koppehel
- Week 50
The train, class ET 171 082, of the Hamburg S-Bahn at Aumühle station.
Photo credit: Jom
- Week 51
Rosa Hamburg is a cultivar by the horticulturist Wilhelm Kordes from the family Rosaceae. Kordes created the Rosarium Uetersen.
Photo credit: Kurt Stüber (http://www.biolib.de/)
- Week 52
Christmas tree in the town hall of Hamburg.
Photo credit: Medvedev
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