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Event Information:
In
Hamburg there are firework displays
over the Alster for New Year, and
there is also a large display over
the Elbe. Hamburg's HADAG boat tour
company festoons two party boats for
New Year's Eve in Hamburg Harbour.
Pick the first option for the best
up-close views of the fireworks.
Hamburg is renowned for its
fireworks. There's no better place
to watch them than from a boat on
the River Elbe. Tickets for the
boats are hard to get hold of, so
make sure you book in advance.
The
Elbe is one of the major rivers of
Central Europe. It rises in the
Krkonoše Mountains of the
northwestern Czech Republic before
traversing much of Bohemia (Czech
Republic), then Germany and flowing
into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110
km northwest of Hamburg. The Elbe
reaches Hamburg. Within the
city-state the Elbe has a number of
branch streams, such as Dove Elbe,
Gose Elbe, Köhlbrand, Northern Elbe
(Norderelbe), Reiherstieg, Southern
Elbe (Süderelbe). Some of which have
been disconnected for vessels from
the main stream by dikes. In 1390
the Gose Elbe (literally in English:
shallow Elbe) was separated from the
main stream by a dike connecting the
two then-islands of Kirchwerder and
Neuengamme. The Dove Elbe (literally
in English: deaf Elbe) was diked off
in 1437/38 at Gammer Ort. These
hydraulic engineering works were
carried out to protect marshlands
from inundation, and to improve the
water supply of the Port of Hamburg.
After the heavy inundation by the
North Sea flood of 1962 the western
section of the Southern Elbe was
separated, becoming the Old Southern
Elbe, while the waters of the
eastern Southern Elbe now merge into
the Köhlbrand, which is bridged by
the Köhlbrandbrücke, the last bridge
over the Elbe before the North Sea.
Hamburg is the second-largest city
in Germany and the seventh-largest
city in the European Union. The city
is home to over 1.8 million people,
while the Hamburg Metropolitan
Region (including parts of the
neighbouring Federal States of Lower
Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has
more than 4.3 million inhabitants.
Situated on the river Elbe, the port
of Hamburg is the third-largest port
in Europe (after the Port of
Rotterdam and the Port of Antwerp)
and it is among the twenty largest
in the world.
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