Farmsen-Berne 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

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 km². Farmsen () and Berne () are part of the area of Walddörfer (lit. ''forest villages'').

Geography

Farmsen-Berne borders the quarters of Rahlstedt, Tonndorf,

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

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
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

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