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behind a metal barrier – land). This area is fertile and has
women and those under 18 the largest number of orchards
are forbidden entrance. St Pauli in Germany. Many visitors come
even has an Erotic-Museum, here in May, when cherry and
where next to the exhibits are apple tree blossom turns
reproductions of works by everything into a sea of white
artists from Rembrandt to and pink. In this riot of colour
Picasso, which are said to stand sturdy red-brick houses
“prove” that everything revolves with white half-timbered panels,
around the female posterior. thatched roofs and carved
gates. The most beautiful
Environs villages are Neuenfelde, Jork,
The magnificent palace in Borstel, Steinkirchen and
Ahrensburg (1595), 23 km Hollern, with their richly
(14 miles) to the northeast, furnished Baroque churches.
has Baroque and Rococo
interiors open to visitors.
0 Stade
Road map C2. * 47,000.
£ U3 to Neugraben, then by train or
catamaran from Landungsbrücken.
n Hansestraße 16 (04141-40 91 70). The Baroque portal of the Dutch-
∑ stade-tourismus.de influenced Rathaus in Stade
This medieval Hanseatic town entire old town is surrounded
has retained most of its half- by preserved modern fortifi-
timbered buildings, with the cations. Other attractions are
most attractive in the Alter the Bürger meister-Hintze-
Façade of Schloß Ahrensburg, flanked Hafen (old harbour). There is a Haus at Am Wasser West 23,
by towers also a quaint crane and the a house built for the mayor,
Schwedenspeicher (Swedish Hintze, in 1617–46, and the
granary) dating from the Swedish exquisite Baroque Rathaus
9 Altes Land occupation during the Thirty (town hall) from 1667, its design
Years’ War (1692–1705). It is now revealing Dutch influence.
Road map C2.
home to the Schwedenspeicher- The 14th-century Gothic
On the flood plains stretching Museum, a museum with church of St Wilhadi boasts an
for more than 30 km (19 miles) exhibits on the town’s history interesting Gothic hall and a
between Hamburg and Stade, and defence system, including leaning tower, while St Cosmas
along the Lower Elbe River, wheels from 700 BC, which and Damiani, founded after the
is the Altes Land (old were part of a Bronze-Age Great Fire of 1659, features
cart. Nearby, an interesting marvellous Baroque furnishings.
building at Am Wasser
West 7 houses the E Schwedenspeicher-Museum
Kaufmann Collection, Am Wasser West 39. Tel (04141) 79
with works by Worps- 77 30. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Fri,
wede artists. The 10am–6pm Sat & Sun. &

The half-timbered houses along the waterside of Alter Hafen in Stade

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