Infopoint Environment Centre Karlshöhe

The location of the Environment Centre is special: the nine-acre site, which includes a small forest, a large orchard, range land, ponds and a farmers´s garden, is located in the urban north east of Hamburg, On the site you get the feeling being on a rural farm rather than being in a modern mayor city. Therefore, the Environment Centre is also a destintation for walks with nature experience, but also for children´s birthday parties and explorer rallies.

The Hamburger Klimaschutzstiftung (Hamburg Foundation for Climate Protection) is running and modernizing the Environment Centre since 2008. From summer 2011 visitors can expect new interesting attractions such as the interactive exhibition “jahreszeitHamburg” (seasonsHamburg). In this exhibition visitors can experience a walk through the four seasons of the year under the motto “Saving Energy – the Nature gives examples”.

In addition, the "Energy and Environment Glass House" demonstrates sustainable heating technologies in practical operation. Located in beautiful surroundings, a new restaurant serves delicious seasonal organic food and complements the offers of the Environment Centre from a culinary perspective.

Business hours: grounds and exhibition open all year, Secretariat: Monday through Friday 9 – 10 hr

Address: Umweltzentrum Karlshöhe, Karlshöhe 60d, 22175 Hamburg

Access by public transport: S-Bahn S1/S11 Wellingsbüttel OR Metro line U1 Farmsen, Metrobus 27 to „Umweltzentrum Karlshöhe“  

Guided Environment Tours:

• „View behind the scenes of the Environmental Centre Karlshöhe: experiencing the modernization and the new education concept für nature, energy and climate protection“  16 January, 21 June, 7 July, 20 October, 13 November, 8 December 
• “Walking and talking with the Hamburg Climate Protection Foundation: Green trails – more than useful sites for sports” 31 March, 17 May, 25 October
• “Habitation in the 21st century: Tour with exemplary perspectives on Environmental techniques of the Environment Centre Karlshöhe, the solar housing estate Karlshöhe and the eclogical housing estate Braamwisch” 30 April, 24 September 
• “Our green quarter in the Green Capital Hamburg: Tour around the Environment Centre Karlshöhe” 21 May, 2 July, 11 August, 13 October
• “Nature rallye for families in the Hamburg Environment Centre Karlshöhe” 22 May, 18 September

Website: umweltzentrum-karlshoehe.de