Hamburg (West), Germany

Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and its inhabitants claim it's the greatest one. It is split between two graticules.

Graticules

Both graticules cover the independent city Hamburg as well as the "Länder" Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

West (latitude 53, longitude 9)

The graticule is split by the river Elbe. Except by boat or swimming you can only cross it via bridges or tunnels located in Hamburg. In the north is Schleswig-Holstein, south the river is Niedersachsen. In Niedersachsen there is the "Wildpark Lüneburger Heide", a nice national park. You can view the graticule with all Geohashes visited in Google Maps.

According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:

74.21%	Fields
6.58%	Roads
5.95%	Forests
4.51%	Natural reserves
3.42%	Settlements
3.38%	Water
1.95%	Highways

East (latitude 53, longitude 10)

This graticule contains the eastern half of Hamburg, as well as the city "Lübeck", parts of Schleswig-Holstein and Niedersachsen and a small corner of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:

53.00%	Fields
16.95%	Natural reserves
15.04%	Forests
5.90%	Roads
3.95%	Settlements
3.63%	Highways
1.52%	Water

Local Geohashers

Hermann is bike powered, living in the west-end. Will try to reach every hash between the river Elbe and "Pinneberg".
Arnew is bike/hvv powered, living central. Will try to reach at least one hash ;).
Knuff is hvv/feet powered, living cental, not being gps-powered at the moment, will trying to be... somewhere, someday :)
Pne is HVV powered, living in Harburg, has only visited one hash so far, is unlikely to be very active. Possibly only Saturday meetups.
Wluut is car/hvv powered, living in Harburg, will try to reach hashes, if not too busy.
TheXenoreal are actually two people who are car/bike/feet powered.
Bierhefe is bike/feet/HVV powered, living in the east-end of Hamburg.
mtu is a HVV/bike powered student of physics living in Hamburg enthusiastic about geohashing.
areghoi is a HVV/feet/"Friends with Cars" powered hasher from West-Hamburg and just did his first geohash!!!
Hascha is a HVV/feet/Bike/Car powered hasher living in Elmshorn and has just discovered Geohashing (haven't done any yet)
Koryu lives in Kaltenkirchen, will also geohash much in the neighbouring graticules to the north and east, but is each working day in Hamburg. Car available.

Planned Geohashes

Reached Geohashes

-most recent on top- 2012-07-11 Bierhefe due to weather conditions the expedition was aborted. Coordinates not reached!

2012-07-02 Situated in a building near "Eppendorfer Park", Breitenfelder Straße 90. Koryu went there Tron-style including raptors and police(wo)men.
2012-06-15 Koryu was there and found a postcard sent by air balloon. (More detailed report coming soon.)
2012-01-11 Next to a street in Hamburg's northeast. User:ilpadre's first expedition in that graticule.
2011-12-30 Bierhefe and wife reached it.
2011-09-10 areghoi had a nice walk in the Forrest. Pictures following.
2011-08-02 Bierhefe reached this hash after a lot of cycling.
2011-06-01 Bierhefe did not reach the coordinates. No trespassing.
2011-05-10 Bierhefe reached this hash together with his wife.
2011-03-03 Bierhefe didn't reach todays coordinates, even though he tried VERY hard.
2011-02-11 Bierhefe took the train on his way home and made a little detour to reach this hash.
2011-02-10 Pne can hardly avoid the hashpoint: it's on the campus of his daughter's school.
2011-01-28 Hermann and mtu went to a tree nursery north of "Holm".
2011-01-27 Hermann bicycled to an apple farm near "Wedel".
2011-01-21 Hermann puppet-mastered a fellow student to take a photo of the hash.
2010-11-24 Bierhefe bicycled there.
2010-11-19 Pne drove past the hashpoint right by a road in Ellerau.
2010-11-01 mtu dragged his girlfriend along to an easy hash in Lüneburg.
2010-10-17 mtu and seamus_d attempting a Consecutive Geohash, episode 2
2010-10-16 mtu and seamus_d attempting a Consecutive Geohash, episode 1
2010-09-17 mtu travelled to the remote village "Handeloh" with two friends.
2010-09-13 Pne rode his bike to a field just outside the Hamburg city border.
2010-08-10 Hermann rode his bike into the forest "Klövensteen".
2010-06-09 Hermann went to the shore at the river Elbe.
2010-06-05 Pne went to his first ever Saturday meetup, on a field part of the former concentration camp Neuengamme.
2010-04-23 Hermann visited a shared backyard in "Hamburg-Eidelstedt".
2010-04-21 Hermann and Matthias found a pair of shoes on the dike in "Wedel".
2010-04-04 Sarah visited the Adolf-Jäger-Arena.
2009-10-20 Hermann went to the botanical garden.
2009-10-10 TheXenoreal visited the Sachsenwald near Dassendorf.
2009-10-09 ilpadre down in town.
2009-10-01 TheXenoreal visited a field north of Luhmühlen near Lüneburg.
2009-09-28 TheXenoreal visited a field at Krapphof near Hamburg Bergedorf.
2009-09-26 TheXenoreal visited a field south of Mechow.
2009-09-22 TheXenoreal visited the "Fruchtquell Getränkeindustrie & Co. KG" in Dodow.
2009-05-18 Hermann tried to gain permisson to take a photo of a backyard in "Wedel".
2009-05-15 Hermann couldn't access a field near the "Zeiss Vogelstation" near "Wedel".
2009-05-12 Hermann had visited a paddock near "Hamburg-Sülldorf".
2009-05-07 Hermann and Matthias went to a churchyard.
2009-04-26 Hermann and Matthias biked through the forest.
2009-03-08 Hermann was downtown.
2009-02-03 Hermann and Matthias were there.
2009-01-09 Hermann went to the shore.
2008-12-15 Hermann and Felix dragged Matthias and Cornelius to the dike.
2008-09-27 Somebody earns the Coffin Potato Achievement.
2008-09-20 Hermann was there.
2008-08-16 53,9 and 53,10: relet visited both graticules on his MONSTER hash.
2008-08-06 Hermann bicycled there.
2008-07-05 Wluut went here.
2008-06-29 Hermann bicycled there.
2008-06-24 Hermann and Felix bicycled there.
2008-06-03 Hermann and Felix bicycled there.
2008-05-26 was reached by Hermann. Probably the first reached hash in this graticule and possibly the first successful documented geohash in Germany.

Special Hashpoints

The 2009-01-09 hashpoint (west) can bee watched live via webcam!

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