Eißendorf () is a quarter of

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, Germany, in the borough of Harburg. More than 24,300 inhabitants live in an area of 8.4 km².

Geography

Eißendorf borders the quarters of

Heimfeld Heimfeld () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the Harburg borough. Geography Heimfeld borders the quarters Hausbruch, Moorburg, Harburg, and Eißendorf. In the southwest it borders Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, ...

, Harburg,

Wilstorf Wilstorf () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of ...

, and

Marmstorf Marmstorf () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of ...

. Eißendorf is located in an undulating landscape at the northern edge of

Harburg Hills The Harburg Hills (German: Harburger Berge) are a low ridge in the northeastern part of the German state of Lower Saxony and the southern part of the city state of Hamburg. They are up to high. Geography and history The Harburg Hills lie northwe ...

. Its center, marked by the main road of Eißendorfer Straße, is situated in the valley of Göhlbachtal.

History

In 1332/33, the former village of Eißendorf, in 1450 called ''Eytzen-dorpe'', was first mentioned. Eißendorf has been a

Haufendorf A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the name ...

(lit. ''clustered village''), probably named after its founding settler.Horst Beckershaus: ''Die Namen der Hamburger Stadtteile. Woher sie kommen und was sie bedeuten'', Hamburg 2002, , p. 37 Eißendorf belonged to

Province of Hanover The Province of Hanover (german: Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1946. During the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, ...

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 ...

, until the village was incorporated into

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

in 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 ...

, which came into force in 1938.Eißendorf
Hamburg.de, in German

Politics

These are the results of Eißendorf in the Hamburg state election:

References

External links

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