50 Years of International Students · Hamburg
The Little
Boardinghouse.
International students have lived in this house for 50 years. Now it’s yours — a small, real home in a quiet Hamburg neighbourhood. Not a hotel. Not a campus. Home.
This House Has Welcomed Students
for 50 Consecutive Years.
For half a century, this house has opened its doors to young people finding their footing in a new country. The students who came before you walked the same Hamburg streets, sat in the same German classrooms, and built the same kind of life here that you’re about to start. When you live here, you’re part of something that started long before you arrived.
A Mother From Toronto.
The boarding house caretaker isn’t a hotel manager or a property supervisor. Eva is a mother who has made this exact move herself — from Canada to Germany, with her own son — and now lives right here in the house. She’s not down the hall. She’s there.
Meet Eva →Eva lives in the house with her own 13-year-old son. That combination — a mother who’s done this herself, right there under the same roof — is something no ordinary residence can offer.
50 Years of International Students.
The shape of this house’s story, decade by decade.
The Beginning
The house first opens its doors to young people arriving in Hamburg from abroad. A tradition begins.
A Growing Tradition
Word spreads. More students find their way to this same quiet Hamburg neighbourhood, year after year.
myWelt Programs Begin
International students begin arriving through myWelt’s Hamburg exchange programs. The house becomes a genuine crossroads.
Your Chapter Starts Here
A caretaker from Toronto. The same walls. The same spirit, 50 years running. Your turn.
Small. Personal. Real.
This isn’t a student residence or a dormitory. It’s a small house in a quiet Hamburg neighbourhood — shared living spaces, a kitchen, a porch, and people who actually care how you’re doing.
Your Program. Your Home.
Every myWelt program in Hamburg includes a place in this house.
50 Years of Students. Your Turn.
Ask us about the boarding house — availability, who else will be there, and whether it’s the right fit for your student.