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Hamburg, Alter Elbtunnel
2025 October 12
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This August, while visiting Hamburg, I finally went to what I've been calling ДЫРА (HOLE), almost a year after I've found out about it from a neighbour who was very impressed after having seen it. I'm talking about Alter Elbtunnel [wiki] — a cargo tunnel under the river Elbe that was used to access the shipyards and docks on the other side and now operates mostly for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river. I am calling it "hole" because last December I had a chance to go there alone, but I went into the wrong door and entered the stairs part of the elevator shaft down the tunnel. I instantly got immense vertigo from just looking at the edges of the staircase and couldn't get myself to look down the shaft, so in my imagination it stayed a deep deep hole down into the unknown. Until we went there with my partner and a friend this August.

We made it all the way to the shipyards and back (both times using beautiful wooden door elevators that I didn't get good enough shots of), and I was honestly surprised by how long the tunnel actually was. If only every second person in the tunnel wouldn't scream or make loud sounds to scare people (or entertain themself) because of an immense echo effect inside....


A photo of a blue and golden mosaic wall at the north entrance of the Alter Elbtunnel. An old lamp in front of it is covered with anti-pigeon metal spikes.
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A straight shot from the one start to the end inside Alter Elbtunnel. White light lamps are covering both sides of the tunnel in parallel lines.
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A photo inside Alter Elbtunnel. People are moving by the left and right sides of the tunnel, while the wider central road is used by cyclists.
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A photo of a yellow and black technical sign in the German language on one of the side of the tunnel. It says: STEIGT 1:100 WAGERECHT AUF 150 METER AUF 108.5 METER
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A photo of one of the several glazed terracotta ornaments. This one shows fishes and eels.
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An inside photo of the tunnel featuring a big turbine fixed to the top of the tunnel.
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A photo of a shipyard featuring a long green wooden building on water with a rusty boat docket to it.
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A photo of a yellow and black boat docked to a long green wooden building on water.
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An overview shot of the north Alter Elbtunnel entrance, featuring a long beige stone building with big green copper domes.
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An overview shot of the downtown Hamburg center from the other side of the river, featuring a white tourist boat with a Lufthansa advertisement on it.
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A photo of a wooden plank wall with a word CISHET... written on it
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