How to find Haus Rissen? How to find Haus Rissen?

From Hamburg Airport:

  1. Shuttle bus from Airport to S-Bahn Station Ohlsdorf",
  2. then S-Bahn S1 in direction of "Blankenese" or "Wedel".
  3. Get off at "Blankenese". Then take Bus 189 in direction of Wedel, the fourth stop is "Haus Rissen" (7 min). Otherwise take taxi from Blankenese to Haus Rissen (about 10 DM). The ticket for the whole trip on public transport can be bought in the airport shuttle bus, it should cost around 5 DM. Travel time about 60-80 min.

Alternatively: Take taxi from airport to Haus Rissen (about 60 DM, travel time about 30 min).

By train:

  1. Take train to Hamburg (preferably ICE = bullet train), get off at Hamburg-Altona (peferably) or Hamburg-Hauptbahnhof (= main station).
  2. Continue by S-Bahn S1, as in (2.) and (3.) above. The S-Bahn is two levels underground at HH-Altona. Ticket vending machines and a counter is at the bottom of the first escalator. If you arrive by train you can include the S-Bahn by asking for "Hamburg-Blankenese" as the final station.

By car:

  1. Take Autobahn A7 to Hamburg, go through Elbtunnel (note: this is the Western by-pass in the direction to Kiel or Husum).
  2. Take second exit past the Elbtunnel ("HH-Bahrenfeld"), go west on Osdorfer Landstrasse (B431) for about 8.3 km. The road later becomes Sülldorfer Landstrasse. You will pass S-Bahn station Iserbrook on left, S-Bahn station Sülldorf on your right. About 1 km after S-Bahn station Sülldorf take a left at Sülldorfer Brooksweg, after 0.5 km take a left into Rissener Landstrasse. Haus Rissen is 50 m down on your right, just after the building of the Reemtsma Stiftung. There is ample parking on the grounds of Haus Rissen.

Further information

Public transport

http://www.hvv.de

City of Hamburg

http://www.hamburg.de/English/welcome.htm

This page is maintained by Hendrik Hölscher. Last change 12 January, 2000.