Paolo Guerrero grabbed a late winner as Hamburg pulled further clear of relegation trouble with a 1-0 victory at Cologne.
Guerrero finished neatly, clipping the ball over home goalkeeper Michael Rensing with two minutes to go after latching on to Mladen Petric's pass.
Tenth-placed Hamburg remain upwardly mobile under new coach Thorsten Fink, moving above Cologne who are six points above the bottom three.
Augsburg and Nuremberg played out a goalless draw in a Bavarian derby - a result which hardly helps either side in their respective battles against the drop.
The fear of losing appeared to outweigh the ambition of winning as both sides settled for a point in a cagey encounter, despite a late flurry of chances.
Augsburg created the better opportunities, but were unable to warm up their fans with an all-important goal as the point leaves them inside the bottom two.
Nuremberg managed to pull a point further clear of Hertha Berlin, but the relegation zone lurks just four points below them.
On Saturday, Borussia Dortmund remained two points clear at the top of the Bundesliga thanks to a 1-0 win at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa struck on the stroke of half-time to preserve Dortmund's two-point cushion over Bayern Munich, who beat struggling Kaiserslautern 2-0.
Mario Gomez and Thomas Muller were on target for the Bavarians as they kept up the pressure on their rivals.
Gomez opened the scoring after only six minutes and Muller got the second goal on the half-hour mark.
Borussia Monchengladbach moved above Schalke into third place, one point further back, on the back of an impressive 3-0 home win over the Royal Blues.
Marco Reus, who will join Dortmund in the summer, put Gladbach in front in the second minute and Mike Hanke doubled their lead on their quarter-hour mark.
Juan Arango added a third in the 32nd minute to all but kill off Schalke's hopes of getting anything from the game.
Defeat left the visitors two points behind their opponents.
A late goal from Marko Arnautovic denied Markus Babbel a dream debut as coach of Hoffenheim as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Werder Bremen.
Jannik Vestergaard gave Hoffenheim the lead in the fourth minute, but they were denied all three points in the very last minute when Arnautovic struck.
Michael Skibbe's nightmare return to Germany continued as his Hertha Berlin side were thrashed 5-0 atStuttgart to fall to the brink of the bottom three.
Skibbe has lost all five games since taking over as coach this winter from Babbel and goals from Vedad Ibisevic, Martin Harnik and Shinji Okazaki in the space of just eight first-half minutes put the home team on course for victory.
To make matters worse for Hertha, they lost Andreas Ottl to a red card after only half an hour. Harnik added a fourth before the interval and completed a hat-trick in the 58th minute to seal the comprehensive victory.
Elsewhere, Artur Sobiech rescued a point for Hannover from their trip to Mainz as he struck in the 89th minute to cancel out Mohamed Zidan's opener in a 1-1 draw.
Sunday's Bundesliga Results
Cologne 0-1 Hamburg
Augsburg 0-0 Nuremberg
Saturday's BundesligaResults
Mainz 1-1 Hannover
Dortmund 1-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Werder Bremen 1-1 Hoffenheim
Stuttgart 5-0 Hertha Berlin
Bayern Munich 2-0 Kaiserslautern
Borussia M'gladbach 3 Schalke 0
Friday's Bundesliga Results
Wolfsburg 3-2 Freiburg
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