The Baursberg has a height of and is therefore the largest hill in the quarter of Blankenese,

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and the second largest of the city (behind

Hasselbrack The Hasselbrack, at ,Height of the hill according to the Geological State Office of Hamburg is the highest point in the state of Hamburg, Germany. It is located on the southern border of the city state with Lower Saxony in the "Black Hills" (''Sch ...

). It is part of the high shore of Blankenese. On top of it the Waterworks Baursberg is located. It was built in 1859, being the first with filtration in Hamburg. Until 1960 also water of the river

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was used, after that only ground water, because of the growing pollution of the river. Eleven wells pump water from depths of 40 to 320m. The height of the hill is then used to transport the water to the consumer without pumps, even to distant quarters such as

Othmarschen Othmarschen () is a quarter in the Altona borough of the Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2020 the population was 16,009. History The first records on Othmarschen are from 1317. Together with Altona, Othmarschen became a part of Hamburg in 1937/1 ...

and the town of Schenefeld in

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. The waterworks is operated by state owned

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.Unsere Wasserwerke
, Hamburg Wasser

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