Must-see attractions in St Pauli & Reeperbahn

  • Sunday morning market in Fischmarkt

    Fischmarkt

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Here's the perfect excuse to stay up all Saturday night. Every Sunday in the wee hours, some 70,000 locals and visitors descend upon the famous Fischmarkt…

  • St Pauli Nachtmarkt

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Wednesday late afternoon and evening is a terrific time to be in St Pauli when the weekly night market takes over Spielbudenplatz with food stalls, live…

  • Tanzende Türme

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Watching over the eastern gateway to St Pauli since 2011, the 'Dancing Towers' are a Hamburg icon. The two towers buck and weave by up to 3m from the…

  • Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Hamburg's history museum has lots of kid-friendly features: it's chock-full of intricate ship models, has a large model train set (which runs on the hour)…

  • Davidwache

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    South of the Reeperbahn stands the star of many a German crime film and TV show, the Davidwache. This brick police station, festooned with ornate ceramic…

  • Sankt Pauli Museum

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    To make historical sense of St Pauli, this museum is an excellent place to start. It takes you back to the earliest days of the neighbourhood, brings to…

  • Beatles-Platz

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Designed like a vinyl record, it has abstract steel sculptures resembling cookie cutters of the Fab Four (including a hybrid of Ringo Starr and Pete Best).

  • Flakturm IV

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Rising up from the northern reaches of St Pauli, this brooding concrete structure was built during WWII as an anti-aircraft defence position but doubled…

  • Panoptikum

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    If wax museums are your thing, Hamburg has a decent version with more than 120 figures spread over four floors. Everyone gets a run, from Queen Elizabeth…

  • Park Fiction

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Hamburg's maritime tableau spreads out before this park created by local residents and overlooking the Elbe. Pick up some beer and have your own sunset…

  • Herbertstrasse

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Along Davidstrasse, a painted tin wall bars views into Herbertstrasse, a block-long bordello that’s off-limits to men under 18 and to women of all ages…

  • Star Club Memorial

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    The seminal venue for the Beatles opened in 1962. It has since burnt down and there is a sad historical marker. Thai karaoke now echoes off the walls.

  • Rickmer Rickmers

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    The 1886 three-masted steel windjammer Rickmer Rickmers is now a museum ship; from the restaurant on deck you have fine harbour views.