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Farmsen-Berne is a quarter of
Hamburg
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, Germany, in the borough of
Wandsbek
Wandsbek () is the second-largest of seven 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. Wandsbek, which was formerly an independent city, is ur ...
. More than 34,000 inhabitants live in an area of 8.3 km
2. Farmsen () and Berne () are part of the area of
Walddörfer (lit. ''forest villages'').
Geography
Farmsen-Berne borders the quarters of
Rahlstedt,
Tonndorf,
Wandsbek
Wandsbek () is the second-largest of seven 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. Wandsbek, which was formerly an independent city, is ur ...
,
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 ...
,
Sasel, and
Volksdorf. The stream of
Berner Au flows through Farmsen-Berne and, behind the pond of Kupfermühlenteich, into
Wandse
(in sections also called Eilbek) is a river flowing through Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, Germany.
The Wandse rises west of the village of Siek in Kreis Stormarn in Schleswig-Holstein and ends in the center of Hamburg in the Alster. Along ...
river.
History
In 1296, the former villages of Farmsen and Berne were first mentioned. Farmsen was then called ''Vermerschen'', deriving of ''Fridumareshusen'' or ''Fridumaresheim'', founded by a
Franconian settler named Fridumar. The name Berne has its origin in ''Baren'', meaning a small stream - Berner Au in this case.
[Horst Beckershaus: ''Die Namen der Hamburger Stadtteile. Woher sie kommen und was sie bedeuten'', Hamburg 2002, , p. 40] Farmsen-Berne was an
exclave of Hamburg in
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 ...
n territory. In 1937, the villages were incorporated into
Hamburg
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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.
[Farmsen-Berne](_blank)
Hamburg.de, in German
Politics
These are the results of Farmsen-Berne in the
Hamburg state election:
Transportation
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 t ...
line
U1, the former
Walddörfer railway, was built since 1912 in the area and has three stops in Farmsen-Berne:
Trabrennbahn,
Farmsen, Oldenfelde and
Berne
Bern () or Berne; in other Swiss languages, gsw, Bärn ; frp, Bèrna ; it, Berna ; rm, Berna is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city" (in german: Bundesstadt, link=no, french: ville fédérale ...
, of which Farmsen station is the largest. It has four tracks, and a railway repair workshop is located here.
References
External links
Farmsen-Berne Hamburg.de
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Quarters of Hamburg
Wandsbek