Harburg district

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Harburg coat of arms
Coat of arms of Hamburg
Harburg
district of Hamburg
Bezirk Harburg Bezirk Altona Bezirk Eimsbüttel Bezirk Hamburg-Nord Bezirk Wandsbek Bezirk Bergedorf Bezirk Hamburg-Mitte Niedersachsen Schleswig-Holstein Neuwerk (zu Bezirk Hamburg-Mitte)Location of the district in Hamburg
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Coordinates 53 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
height 20  m above sea level NHN
surface 125.4 km²
Residents 169,426 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1351 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes 21073, 21075, 21077, 21079, 21129, 21147, 21149
prefix 040

Administration address
District Office Harburg
Harburger Rathausplatz 1
21073 Hamburg
Website www.hamburg.de/harburg
politics
District Office Manager Sophie Fredenhagen (independent)
Allocation of seats ( district assembly )
SPD Green CDU AfD left FDP
14th 14th 10 5 5 3
Transport links
Highway A1 A7 A253
Federal road B4 B73 B75
Long-distance railway F.Long-distance transport
Train S3Hamburg S3.svg S31Hamburg S31.svg
Source: Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Bezirke in Hamburg Bezirk Hamburg-Mitte Niedersachsen Cranz Neuenfelde Francop Neugraben-Fischbek Hausbruch Altenwerder Moorburg Heimfeld Eißendorf Marmstorf Sinstorf Langenbek Wilstorf Rönneburg Gut Moor Neuland HarburgStructure of the Harburg district
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Harburg is the southwest of the seven districts of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . It is named after the formerly independent city and today's district of Harburg . Until the reorganization of the Wilhelmsburg district into the Hamburg-Mitte district in 2008, Harburg was the largest district in Hamburg.

The Harburg district is bordered by the Hamburg-Mitte district in the north and east, the Harburg district in the south and the Stade district in the west (both in Lower Saxony ).

structure

The Harburg district consists of 17 districts.

In addition to the district office, there are three customer centers for residents' matters, two for the former Harburg and Süderelbe districts and one for foreigner matters.

history

Harburg town hall  - seat of the district office and the district assembly

With the exception of the Moorburg district , which had belonged to Hamburg since the 14th century, the remaining areas of today's district only came to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg from the Prussian province of Hanover in 1937 through the " Greater Hamburg Law " : including the one that was only formed in 1927 City of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg with the municipalities of Heimfeld , Wilstorf , Lauenbruch and Eißendorf incorporated therein , as well as the municipalities of Altenwerder , Fischbek , Francop , Gut Moor , Langenbek , Marmstorf , Neuenfelde , Neugraben , Neuland , Rönneburg , Sinstorf from the Harburg district and Cranz from the District of Stade .

On April 1, 1938, the cities and municipalities that had become part of the Hamburg state lost their independence and became part of the entire municipality of Hamburg. In the same year Hamburg was divided into ten districts, including district 8 = Wilhelmsburg, Harburg, Süderelbe. (After the air raids in the summer of 1943 , Finkenwerder was also temporarily added to District 8.)

The administrative seat of the Prussian district of Harburg initially remained in Harburg. Only after the destruction of the Harburg district house in an Allied air raid on November 21, 1944, the district administration was moved to Winsen (Luhe) .

In 1945 the former senator of the city of Harburg Alfred Höhlein (SPD) became the first head of the Harburg district office (until 1954). According to the district administration law of September 21, 1949, Hamburg was divided into seven districts, the division of which was finally decided on May 11, 1951 with the participation of seven district committees (which had been elected in the state elections on October 16, 1949).

coat of arms

The old Harburg coat of arms shows the city gate in red with a blue tower dome. The shield is covered in gold with a blue lion and a red tongue. The coat of arms reminds of the fact that the city of Harburg belongs to the territory of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.

When the two cities of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg were merged, they received a new city coat of arms. The Harburg coat of arms, a white gatehouse on a white background with three towers and an open gate in which the Brunswick lion is standing, was supplemented by two lilies on the battlements of the two towers from the Wilhelmsburg coat of arms.

Today the Harburg coat of arms is more of a symbolic character and is not considered an official emblem. However, it is still used today on printed matter from the Harburg district assembly.

Population development

The following overview shows the census results of the municipality of Harburg according to the respective territorial status. With the unification of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg in 1927, the population of the community exceeded the limit of 100,000 and made it a major city. At the census on June 16, 1933, the city had 112,593 inhabitants. Since January 1, 1938, it has been part of the city of Hamburg. From 1861 the population figures refer to the “local population” and from 1925 to the resident population .

year Residents
December 3, 1861 12,200
December 3, 1864 13,500
December 3, 1867 14,200
December 1, 1875 17,100
December 1, 1880 19,100
December 1, 1885 22,341
December 1, 1890 35,081
December 2, 1895 42,579
year Residents
December 1, 1900 49,153
December 1, 1905 55,676
December 1, 1910 67.025
December 1, 1916 57.009
December 5, 1917 55,842
December 8, 1919 65,933
June 16, 1925 72.905
Population development of Harburg between 1861 and 1925

District Office Manager since 1951

Head of the Harburg District Office, formerly District Manager. (Former mayors of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg see under Hamburg-Harburg # Mayor / Lord Mayor of the City of Harburg )

politics

elections

Election for the district assembly Harburg 2019
Turnout: 49.3%
 %
30th
20th
10
0
27.1
25.8
19.3
10.2
9.3
6.1
2.2
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-11.5
+12.3
-7.3
+4.2
+0.4
+1.7
+2.2
Distribution of seats in the district assembly
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14th
14th
3
10
5
14th 14th 10 
A total of 51 seats

District Assembly

From January 2012 to November 2017, Thomas Völsch (SPD) was district manager of Hamburg-Harburg. Völsch was confirmed for a second, six-year term in September 2017 with 76% of the vote. Since Völsch's death in November 2017, the non-party head of the department, Dierk Trispel, has been the executive district manager. On September 10, 2018, the non-party Sophie Fredenhagen was elected by the district assembly as the new district office manager and confirmed by the Hamburg Senate at the end of September. Because of different positions on Fredenhagen, the SPD terminated the grand coalition in the district assembly at the end of August.

After the district assembly election in 2014, the social democrat Manfred Schulz was elected chairman of the district assembly. In March 2017, the social democrat Birgit Rajski was elected as the new chairman after Manfred Schulz resigned from office for health reasons.

Citizenship

With the electoral law for the Hamburg citizenship and the Harburg district assembly , which was changed in 2009 , the district was divided into the two constituencies of Harburg and Süderelbe , whose boundaries, however, do not match the existing district and settlement structures.

The voter turnout for the citizenship election 2015 in February 2015 was 56.5% nationwide, with an average of 51.2% in the district. Matthias Czech (SPD), Jasmin Janzen (SPD, moved up in May 2017 for Brigitta Schulz also SPD) and André Trepoll (CDU) are members of the citizenship of the Süderelbe constituency . Sören Schumacher (SPD), Birte Gutzki-Heitmann (SPD) and Birgit Stöver (CDU) represent the Harburg constituency . The constituency of Süderelbe has 24.1 percent of the votes for the CDU as a stronghold of the CDU. The AfD can also count both constituencies as strongholds with over 9 percent each.

Bundestag

For the election to the German Bundestag , the district has belonged to the Bundestag constituency Hamburg-Bergedorf - Harburg since 2002 , previously to the Bundestag constituency Hamburg-Harburg and was only represented by three directly elected members from 1949 until today: Herbert Wehner (SPD) from 1949 to 1983, Hans -Ulrich Klose (SPD) from 1983 to 2013 and Metin Hakverdi since 2013. Hakverdi received 40.4 % of the first votes in the 2013 Bundestag election and 34.8% in the 2017 Bundestag election .

economy

The Hamburg-Harburg train station

traffic

Basically, due to its location south of the Elbe, the problem is that the Harburg district is not adequately connected to the rest of Hamburg's urban area. This applies to both road and local public transport.

Federal autobahn 7 and federal autobahn 1 run through the Harburg district from north to south . Coming from the Hamburg-Georgswerder motorway junction, the short federal motorway 252 turns into Wilhelmsburger Reichsstraße , which is part of federal highways 4 and 75 . These bypass Harburg city center as federal motorway 253 and then lead in a south-westerly direction to the Hamburg-Marmstorf junction on the A 7. Immediately to the north of this, the federal motorway 261 branches off from the A 7. The federal highway 73 crosses the district in a west-east direction and ends at the junction Hamburg-Harburg-Mitte of the A 253.

The Hamburg-Hanover and Hamburg-Bremen railway lines meet at the Hamburg-Harburg station with the lines to Cuxhaven ( Unterelbebahn ) and Hamburg. A section of the Hamburg S-Bahn , on which the lines S3 and S31 run, leads from the Hamburg city center via Wilhelmsburg and Harburg city center and on via Neugraben in the west of the district to Buxtehude and Stade. The S-Bahn was opened in 1983 to Harburg Rathaus, 1984 to Neugraben and 2007 to Stade. In 2020, the construction of a S-Bahn ring via Heimfeld , Bostelbek and Altona to relieve the S-Bahn between Harburg and Wilhelmsburg was proposed.

City traffic in Harburg was originally carried by tram lines operated by Hamburger Hochbahn AG. In the 1920s, a private and later communalized bus company was established, but it could not hold up. Against Harburg's concession not to have its own transport company, the Hochbahn expanded its tram network, which at the time of its greatest expansion had the following appearance:

  • Rönneburg (Radickestr.) - Wilstorfer Straße - Mühlenstr. (today Schloßmühlendamm) - Hamburg
  • Train station - Heimfeld
  • Train station - Bostelbek
  • Train station - Appelbüttel

In addition, the elevated railway maintained bus routes 36 (Eißendorf) and 39 (Marmstorf – Innenstadt – Fleestedt) in the 1930s.

Even during the war, ideas were growing to switch traffic to the trolleybus , which was fashionable at the time . In 1949 the trolleybus line Eißendorf – city center – Fleestedt was finally set up, on which even double-decker buses ran. At that time, the entire HHA traffic in Harburg was operated electrically, supplemented by private diesel buses to Marmstorf (Eggers), Altwiedenthal – Ehestorf (Meyer) and several rail buses (Waldfrieden, Neu Wulmstorf). However, there was soon a move away from electric transport: the trolleybuses disappeared as early as 1958, the trams until 1971.

In 1967 the collective tariff of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) was introduced, so that one could use the local trains of the Deutsche Bahn between the main station, Harburg, Neugraben and Maschen as well as the buses of the Hochbahn with just one ticket. This also led to a shift in traffic from the tram to the now known as "S3" rail link, which ran at irregular intervals with locomotive-hauled trains and silver coins. Until 1976, the DB maintained a rail bus express line Harburg / Rathaus-Hamburg / ZOB.

The bus network adapted to the development of the settlement and received more and more branches in the new building areas. Today it consists of six diameter lines (14, 141, 241, 142, 143, 443) and four radial lines (144, 145, 245, 249), which with the exception of line 249 run at least every 20 minutes during the day operate. Overlays sometimes result in cycle sequences of 5 minutes. The diameter lines connect either the Eißendorfer with the Winsener or the Stader with the Jägerstraße. The attempt to establish a tangential connection (Bostelbek – Lübbersweg – Marmstorf – Sinstorf, 444) failed in 1995. In addition, there are lines of the KVG Stade , the more rural areas such as Neuland (149, 349), Altwiedenthal (340), Moorburg (157) or Neuenfelde ( 257). Several HHA bus lines operate in the Süderelbe area, mostly via the ZOB Neugraben. Individual HHA lines have their end point in Lower Saxony.

Intercity bus traffic has shrunk to a few, albeit dense, connections in the last few decades. KVG Hittfeld operates six overland lines to Hittfeld (148), Hittfeld – Jesteburg – Hanstedt (4148), Vahrendorf– Nenndorf (4244), Tötensen –Nenndorf – Buchholz (also 4244), Over– Winsen (149) and to the Hamburg districts of Finkenwerder (146) and Moorburg . KVG buses run from Neugraben to Hollenstedt and Jork. The KVG took over these lines from the Post in the 1980s. The long-distance rail bus lines to Verden, Soltau and Munster as well as private lines to Hollenstedt and Ohlendorf-Winsen have disappeared. Until the opening of the S-Bahn, most of the intercity buses ended up at a central bus station next to what was then the swimming pool on Harburg City Hall Square.

The long-distance cycle route Hamburg – Bremen and the long-distance cycle route Flensburg-Gießen also run through Harburg .

The Harburg-Rathaus S-Bahn station is also Hamburg's largest nuclear bunker .

In the course of the construction of underground line 4 by the Hamburger Hochbahn , an extension via Wilhelmsburg to Harburg was also discussed.

Established businesses

In autumn 2017, the Carlsberg brewery decided to move the Holsten brewery from Hamburg-Altona to the Hausbruch industrial park by 2019 .

Educational institutions

The Technical University of Hamburg is located in Harburg . From its foundation in 1978 to 2018, the university was known as the “Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg”. The university library , the Northern Institute of Technology Management (NIT) and the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services are also located on the university campus .

The well-known schools in Harburg include the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium , the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium , the Goethe-Schule Harburg , the Lessing district school and the school In der Alten Forst.

The Elbcampus , the education and competence center of the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts , has been located on Schlachthofstrasse since September 2008 .

media

Up until 2013, the daily newspaper Harburger Anzeige und Nachrichten (HAN) reported on national topics as a local newspaper, mainly on the Harburg district, including Wilhelmsburg and the Harburg district, as well as Hamburg and Lower Saxony. It appeared in Harburg since 1844, making it the oldest daily newspaper in Hamburg. The local weekly newspaper Harburger Blatt has been published since 2012/13 . It was founded by the former HAN photographer Peter Noßek.

The Hamburger Abendblatt reports in its regionally available supplement, the Harburger Rundschau daily on Harburg, Wilhelmsburg and the neighboring towns in Lower Saxony. There are also various other weekly newspapers and trendy magazines with a regional focus.

In addition, the internet newspapers harburg-aktuell.de and better-im-blick.de offer news from the district in texts, photos and videos.

Leisure and sports facilities

At the outer mill pond (laid out by Duke Otto II. 1565) lies both the Harburg city park and the “MidSommerland” (large leisure pool with water slide, thermal bath and sauna). This is where the first boathouse of the Außenmühle water sports club was built in 1921, which is now the Süderelbe water sports club . Today only the youth training takes place here, the main boathouse is on the Süderelbe.

In the Neuland district, near the Hamburg-Harburg junction of the A1, is the Neuländer See. In addition to a beach and sunbathing lawns, there is also a water ski facility here .

Culture and sights

Festival of the Games, Rieckhof Hamburg 2005

The Phoenix Art Kulturstiftung - founded in summer 2001 by Phoenix AG and the internationally renowned art collector Harald Falckenberg. The modern exhibition rooms - designed in 2001 by the Frankfurt architect Roger Bundschuh - extend over two floors over an area of ​​more than 4,000 square meters.

  • "PhoenixArt is likely to be the leading place for dealing with contemporary art in Germany for the next 10 years." (Rheinischer Merkur)
  • "The Falckenberg Collection is one of the 200 best in the world" ARTNEWS (New York)

From sculptures - influenced by the Berlin School at the beginning of the 20th century - to minimal concept art, an interesting mix of " art in public space " has been realized to this day. The “Art Path Harburg” meanders from the town hall along 26 works of art across Harburg city center. The Rieckhof is a cultural center where concerts and other events (e.g. adult education center) take place on a regular basis.

The Archaeological Museum Hamburg (Helms Museum) is also the State Museum for Archeology and provides information about the history of Harburg. The Harburg Theater is also housed in the main building on Museum Square .

Since 2000, the Harburger Bahnhof art association in the Hamburg-Harburg train station (via platform 3/4 in the former waiting room) has been devoting itself to international and regional contemporary art. The jazz club in the signal box is housed in the former teaching signal box in the same building of this "culture station" .

The Harburg memorial against fascism by Esther and Jochen Gerz can only be seen through a viewing hatch in the entrance of the Harburg-Rathaus S-Bahn station, as the artists wanted. The Harburg Music Prize has been awarded since 2006 , initially by the now-defunct Musik im Talks association , and since 2013 by the Hamburg Archaeological Museum. It honors musicians for their services to the Harburg district and promotes talented young talent. The music community, founded in 1930, is the largest non-commercial concert provider in the Hanseatic city and holds at least twelve major concerts in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle every year.

Once a year since 2004 the self-organizedFree & Outsidemusic festival “No clay - anyway Fete” takes place in the city ​​park at the open-air stage.

The Harburg inland port

Inland Harbor Festival Hamburg-Harburg, main stage, June 2008

The Harburg inland port is a wintering port for sailing schooners and an urban, lively port district. After some very extensive sailing tours with a focus on the North Sea and Baltic Sea , the sailing ships return to the safe waters of the port, which are tide-independent through a lock . Due to the proximity to the Jöhnk shipyard , repair work can be carried out.

The Harburg Inland Port Festival has been taking place on the first weekend in June since 2001. It is organized by the KulturWerkstatt Harburg association.

Parks

  • Harburg city park with school garden and the outdoor mill pond (approx. 900 m long) in Wilstorf .

In Harburg, Georg Hölscher (1866–1932), owner of a large gardening business and who had also been a part-time city gardener for a long time, was commissioned to plan a city park on the west side of the Außenmühlenteich. Work began in 1913 and the park was inaugurated in 1924. Monument bust of Hölscher by "Ernst Küster" (1935) on the edge of a plateau at the so-called "hockey field"

An open-air stage formed from hedges in the city park and the spacious main avenue in the former school garden as well as a themed garden area that has recently been upgraded with new planting are of artistic importance. The school garden is a facility from the years 1929–1932, the components of which can only be partially recognized today.

Nature reserves / natural monuments

In addition to other protected areas (landscape protection), the following nature reserves can be found in the district:

In addition, the Bracks Gutsbrack, Uhlenbuschbracks (two small Bracks), Papenbrack, Callabrack and the yew tree (800 to 1000 years old) are particularly protected as natural monuments on the Neuländer dike .

There are a number of surveys in the district (see: List of surveys in Hamburg )

See also

List of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Harburg

literature

  • Wolfgang Becker, Axel Tiedemann: Harburg from AZ. Medien-Verlag Schubert, ISBN 3-929229-82-X .
  • Wolfgang Becker, Gerhard Szczepaniak, Ralf Busch : Harburg from 1970 to today. Medien-Verlag Schubert, 2000, ISBN 3-929229-74-9 .
  • Jürgen Ellermeyer (Ed.): Harburg. From the castle to the industrial city. Contributions to the history of Harburg. 1288-1938. Christians Verlag, ISBN 3-7672-1033-9 .
  • Sybille Küttner: Hamburg-Harburg. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 3rd ed. 2005, ISBN 978-3-89702-727-5 .
  • Dieter Bönig: Harburg city and country. Limosa, ISBN 978-3-86037-334-7 .
  • Gerhard Szczepaniak, Uwe Schubert, Jürgen Ehlers : Harburg in Transition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, ISBN 3-9802319-5-X .
  • Ivar Lethi, Matthias Bublitz: Against the current and with the times: A Harburg life between everyday life, anarchism and outdoor mill. BoD; Edition: 1 (May 20, 2009), ISBN 978-3-8391-0261-9 .
  • Hans Harms, Ronald Kunze, Dirk Schubert: The building cooperatives in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg. Hamburg-Harburg 1994.

Web links

Commons : Bezirk Harburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Website of the Harburg District Office
  • District and district statistics 2012 (PDF) of the statistical office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. On pages 7–19 you can find the information for the whole of Hamburg and comparisons of the districts. From pages 202 to 232 you can find the information for the Harburg district and its districts.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Harburg: certificate of appointment for Fredenhagen. In: ndr.de. September 28, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  2. Section 1 of the District Administration Act (BezVG) of July 6, 2006 . HmbGVBl. Part I 2006, No. 33, p. 404 ( landesrecht-hamburg.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).
  3. ^ Order on the division of the area of ​​the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . September 7, 1965, HmbGVBl. Part II 1965, Official Gazette No. 181, p. 999 .
  4. Andreas Göhring: District Office Manager Völsch with record results in second term. In: harburg-aktuell.de. September 27, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ Mourning for Thomas Völsch. In: ndr.de. November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  6. New head elected for the Harburg district. In: ndr.de. September 11, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .
  7. Andreas Göhring and André Zand-Vakili: Dispute over district office manager posts: SPD collapses coalition with CDU. In: harburg-aktuell.de. August 23, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .
  8. ^ Andreas Göhring: Birgit Rajski is the new chairwoman of the district assembly. In: harburg-aktuell.de. March 1, 2017, accessed March 14, 2017 .
  9. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Final result of the 2015 state elections: elected candidates , accessed on September 26, 2015
  10. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Analysis of the election for citizenship in Hamburg on February 15, 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.statistik-nord.de  
  11. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Analysis of the federal election on September 22, 2013 in Hamburg Final results , accessed on September 26, 2015
  12. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein 2017: Preliminary results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the constituencies compared to the 2013 Bundestag election; constituency 23 Hamburg-Bergedorf-Harburg - first votes. (PDF; 7.4 KB) September 24, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
  13. ^ Lars Hansen: Does a S-Bahn-Ring solve Harburg's traffic problem? April 11, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  14. Andreas Göhring: Holsten: Order for a new brewery building in Hausbruch was placed. In: harburg-aktuell.de. September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  15. Law on the renaming of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, dated May 29, 2018. (PDF, 54 kB) In: Hamburgisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt, edition 21 of 2018. June 1, 2018, p. 4 , accessed on 24. November 2019 .
  16. ^ Website of the Harburg inland port festival
  17. on the history of the city park and school garden ( Memento from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Netplanet-Harburg project)