Hausbruch () is a quarter of

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

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in the Harburg borough. It was first mentioned in 1553. The large housing estate of Neuwiedenthal is located in the quarter.Daniel Tilgner (ed.): ''Hamburg. Von Altona bis Zollenspieker'', 1. ed. 2002, p.490,

Name

The name of the quarter derives from a carr (German: ''Bruchwald'') area, which was lent to farmers or woodsmen by its owners, the archbishops of

Bremen Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state cons ...

, during the medieval ages. The fee for the wood was called "Hür" (''Heuer'', rent). The farmers were called the "Hürer", from this the early names "Hürersbrook" or "Hürsbrook" and the modern form "Hausbruch" developed.

Geography

North of Hausbruch the quarters of

Francop Francop is a quarter in the Harburg borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2020 the population was 711. History Francop, probably founded in the mid-12th century, belonged - as to its government - to the Prin ...

and

Moorburg Moorburg () is a place in Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1 ...

are located, to the east Hausbruch borders Heimfeld and in the west

Neugraben-Fischbek [] is a Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg, quarter of Hamburg, Germany, belongs to the borough Harburg, Hamburg, Harburg. The quarter consists of the old settlements ''Neugraben'' and ''Fischbek'', and the more recently constructed area ''Neuwieden ...

. In the south, the borough is adjacent to the village of Ehestorf the

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

municipality of Rosengarten. In the south, the forest area of Revier Hausbruch, which extends to an area of 770 ha, is located in the quarter. In addition, the heathlands of Neugrabener Heide, which belong to the Fischbeker Heide nature reserve, are within the Hausbruch quarter.Hausbruch
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Politics

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

Transportation

The

Neuwiedenthal station Neuwiedenthal is a station on the Harburg S-Bahn line in Hamburg, Germany, and served by the trains of Hamburg S-Bahn lines S3 and S31. The station was opened in 1984 and is located in the Hamburg quarter of Hausbruch. Hausbruch is part of the Ham ...

of the

Hamburg S-Bahn The Hamburg S-Bahn is a suburban commuter railway network in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together, the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city and the s ...

is situated in the quarter.

References

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