(Northern Barmbek) is a quarter of
Hamburg
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, Germany, in the borough of
Hamburg-Nord
Hamburg-Nord (meaning ''Hamburg North'') is one of the seven boroughs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in northern Germany. In 2020, according to the residents registration office, the population was 315,514 in an area of 57.5 km2. ...
. It is located in the east of Hamburg-Nord, approximately five kilometers from Hamburg city center. Barmbek-Nord is a densely built-up area.
Barmbek-Nord borders the quarters of
Ohlsdorf,
Steilshoop
Steilshoop () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the Wandsbek
Wandsbek () is the second-largest of seven Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg#Boroughs, boroughs that make up the city and state of Hamburg, Germany. The name of the district is derived ...
,
Bramfeld
Bramfeld () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Wandsbek. It is located on the southeastern border of the borough, which lies in the northeastern part of the city. Bramfeld includes the former village of Hellbrook, but consists t ...
,
Wandsbek
Wandsbek () is the second-largest of seven Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg#Boroughs, boroughs that make up the city and state of Hamburg, Germany. The name of the district is derived from the river Wandse which passes through here. Hamburg-Wandsb ...
,
Dulsberg
Dulsberg () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Hamburg-Nord. In the east and the south it borders Wandsbek.
History
*1906: the station "Friedrichsberg" was opened by Hamburg S-Bahn
*1910: the second great fire of Hamburg
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,
Barmbek-Süd and
Winterhude
Winterhude () is a quarter in the ward Hamburg-Nord of Hamburg, Germany. As of 2020 the population was 56,382.
History
Winterhude was first mentioned in the 13th century, but archeological findings of tools, weapons and grave-mounds were dated to ...
.
History
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Barmbek-Nord was farmland until the end of the 19th century. A workers' district, its population mainly grew in size during industrialization in the 1910s and 1920s,
although it did also have industrial structures itself.
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History Workshop Barmbek, in German In 1907, the
Hamburg-Altonaer Stadt- und Vorortbahn (Hamburg - Altona urban and suburban railway, now incorporated into
Hamburg S-Bahn
The Hamburg S-Bahn is a suburban commuter railway network in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together, the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city and the s ...
) with the Barmbeck station, now
Barmbek station
Barmbek is a railway station and transport hub in Hamburg, Germany, for the underground railway (U-Bahn) system and the suburban railway (S-Bahn) system. The station is located in the district of Barmbek-Nord, Germany. Barmbek-Nord is part of ...
started operation. In Barmbek-Nord the stations of
Rübenkamp (1913), later
Alte Wöhr (1931) opened. In 1912, the
Hamburger Hochbahn
Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA), founded in 1911, operates the underground system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg, Germany.
History
The HHA was founded by Siemens & Halske and AEG as a consortium on 27 May 1911. The first chairman w ...
started operating the first part of the
Hamburg U-Bahn
The Hamburg U-Bahn is a rapid transit system serving the cities of Hamburg, Norderstedt and Ahrensburg in Germany. Although referred to by the term U-Bahn (the "U" commonly being understood as standing for "underground"), most of the system's ...
''circle line'' from Barmbek station via
Mundsburg to
central station
Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...
. In 1930 the track to the station of
Habichtstraße opened.
In 1913 the hospital of Barmbek, (''Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek'', today
Asklepios Klinik Barmbek), was also established. Until the incorporation of neighboring villages Bramfeld and Steilshoop 1937 by the
Greater Hamburg Act
The Greater Hamburg Act (german: Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz), in full the Law Regarding Greater Hamburg and Other Territorial Readjustments (german: Gesetz über Groß-Hamburg und andere Gebietsbereinigungen), was passed by the government of Nazi Germa ...
the present-day quarters of Barmbek-Nord and Dulsberg, which were then still named ''
Barmbeck
Barmbek (), until 27 September 1946 ''Barmbeck'', is the name of a former village that was absorbed into the city of Hamburg, Germany. In 1951 it was divided into the quarters '' Barmbek-Süd'', '' Barmbek-Nord'' and '' Dulsberg'' in the borough ' ...
'' along with Barmbek-Süd, formed a part of the Hamburger eastern border with
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
. In 1937, Barmbek-Nord became a part of Hamburg, and has remained that way since.
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Hamburg.de, in German Barmbek-Nord faced major destruction during the
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacke ...
.
In the 1970s and 1980s the quarter underwent economic structural change, parts of the population moving away.
Meanwhile it turned from a workers quarter into a more family-friendly environment.
To date it is a vivid quarter, especially around Barmbek station and the major shopping street of ''Fuhlsbüttler Straße''.
Politics
These are the results of Barmbek-Nord in the
Hamburg state election:
References
External links
Barmbek-Nord Hamburg.de
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Quarters of Hamburg
Hamburg-Nord