is a quarter in the borough of
Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Mitte (Hamburg Central) is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany, covering most of the city's urban center. The quarters of Hamburg-Altstadt and Neustadt cover much of the city's historic core. In 2020 the population was 301,231.
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, in the eastern part of
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...
, Germany. Once a popular
garden suburb of rich traders and merchants, in the first half of the 20th century it grew to become one of the most populated quarters of Hamburg. In the Second World War, however, the area was mostly flattened. the population was 37,989.
Between 1951 and 2010 Hamm was subdivided into three neighborhoods: Hamm-Nord, -Mitte und -Süd (Hamm-North, -Middle, and South). On 1 January 2011, this subdivision was repealed and the three were again combined.
Demographics
Hamm had 26,122 households. The majority of inhabitants, 73.9%, were between 18 and 65. The proportion of immigrants was 32.9%, significantly lower than in Hamburg-Mitte as a whole (45.3%).
[Hamburger Stadtteil-Profile 2013]
, ISSN 1863-9518, Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, 2014
Politics
These are the results of Hamm in the
Hamburg state election:
Religion
Like most of the Hamburg area, after the
Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the p ...
Hamm was mostly
Lutheran
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...
. After the Church of the Trinity was built in 1693 Hamm was its own parish, which initially also comprised
Horn
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* Horn (acoustic), a tapered sound guide
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and part of
Eilbek. In the 19th and 20th centuries an increase in population led to the foundation of multiple daughter-parishes (Dankeskirche 1895, Wichernkirche 1934, Pauluskirche 1955, Simeonkirche 1965/66), some of which reunited into a larger parish (with 7400 parishioners) because of lowered membership.
Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde zu Hamburg-Hamm
Since the 1950s there have been a Catholic community (Herz Jesu Hamm) and a number of free church
A free church is any Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government (as opposed to a state church). A free church neither defines government policy, nor accept church theology or policy definitions from the government. A f ...
es (a Methodist church, a Baptist church, and an independent Evangelical-Lutheran church) in Hamm. In recent times a Greek Orthodox church and a mosque have been added.
References
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Quarters of Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte