(lit. ''Manor Moor'') is a quarter of

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, in the borough of Harburg on its southeastern boundaries adjacent to Harburg district in Niedersachsen. It is one of the smallest quarters of Hamburg. 133 inhabitants lived in an area of 1.97 km² in 2016.

Geography

Gut Moor borders the quarters of

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, Harburg,

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, and Rönneburg. Gut Moor is located in the marshlands near the ancient

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History

In 1540, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, had his workers trench the canal of Seevekanal through the Meckelfeld moor to drain the area. Gut Moor was then named after a manor in the moor which

William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg Duke William Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (15 March 1564 in Harburg – 30 March 1642 in Harburg) was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg. Life William Augustus was a son of Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Harburg (1528-1603) from hi ...

bestowed his chancellor, Johann von Drebber, as an official residence here in 1630.Dietrich Kausche: ''Harburger Erbregister von 1667''. Hamburg (Verein für Hamburg. Geschichte), 1987, . p.51 So the domain of ''Kanzlershof'' (Chancellor's Yard) was created, which included parts of today's quarter. In 1713, a manor house was erected which was demolished in 1910, when the tracks of Harburg goods station were expanded. Today, Gut Moor consists mainly of the main road of Großmoordamm. Buildings include some half-timbered houses with thatched roofs. But also the federal motorway

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leads through the quarter.Gut Moor
Hamburg.de, in German

Politics

These are the results of Gut Moor and Neuland in the Hamburg state election:

References

External links

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