Day Trips by Train from Hamburg

Luneburg is a small medieval town which makes for an easy daytrip as it’s 30-60 minutes by train.

Lubeck was the capital city of the Hanseatic League, and is stunningly beautiful. Lubeck is about 40 minutes away by train.

Bremen (bigger city, further away), Buxtehude (small town, close in).

Lavandula

Here's a day-trip guide for Lüneburg:

https://lifeslittleadventures.typepad.com/lifes_little_adventures/2009/09/

I'm hoping to get to the Hamburg area this fall and have been thinking of three WW2 places to daytrip to-
Bremerhaven, which has the most advanced sub of WW2 built by the Germans late in the war (never saw action) but was so revolutionary that a lot of the later US Subs were based on the design apparently.
Also the Panzer museum in Munster (Ortze) - not to be confused with the city of Munster!
Kiel, north of Hamburg has the U995 type 7 Uboat which was one of the most common of the war
And in Hamburg is a flac tower but I'm not sure if you can go in, but I plan to at least walk around it.

I plan to visit these places this fall but I've never been, so I can't say for sure how long it takes or how good they are. Looks like a couple hours or via train to each except of course the flac tower

https://uboot-wilhelm-bauer.de/en/start/
https://daspanzermuseum.de/en/
https://navalhistoria.com/u-995/
https://www.hamburg.com/visitors/sights/architecture/st-pauli-bunker-19378

Greg, The article you provided the link for says the Hamburg Flak Tower has a hotel and restaurant open to the public on the top 5 floors. The rest of the building is mixed-use with residential and commercial
spaces.

Cheers!

The mentioned submarine type VII you can find in Laboe as technical museum.

The mentioned Wilhelm Bauer, a type XXI submarine which was developed too late in WWII to change things you can find in Bremerhaven (link).

In April combine visiting Stade with Altes Land, a fruit area West of Hamburg.

I know it's a bit out of the way, but I still think this place is important for all those interested in WWII. After all, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile was developed there. Parts of the old buildings still exist today, and there's a fantastic museum. https://museum-peenemuende.de/?lang=en

Hi Kenko and Mark K
Thanks, I'm still in the early research stage so I don't really know what I'm talking about. My main purpose was to give the OP- Cooper some day trip ideas for WW2 stuff with the qualification that Cooper will need to do research if those things are of interest. I've been reading a bit more about the flac tower, doesn't look like tours are available, and there may be nothing on the inside to see anyway if it's all been renovated.
I'm hoping to go in late Sept, so I'll have to get up to speed on all these subs and museums and towers.

@kenko. The flak tower in Hamburg has been turned into a hotel. You can still make out the basic design but it definitely been modified (at least what I'm seeing from the pics I've seen). If you want to see a few in the original state, there are two in the middle of a park in Vienna (the Augarten) with another two that are a bit harder to see

Thanks for the info everyone!