Wandsbek district

Wandsbek ; district of Hamburg
Coordinates	53 ° 34 '55 " N , 10 ° 5' 3" E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '55 " N , 10 ° 5' 3" E
height	20 m above sea level NHN
surface	147.6 km²
Residents	441,012 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	2988 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes	22041, 22043, 22045, 22047, 22049, 22087, 22089, 22143, 22145, 22147, 22149, 22159, 22175, 22177, 22179, 22309, 22339, 22359, 22391, 22393, 22395, 22397, 22399, 22415, 22417
prefix	040
; Administration address	District Office Wandsbek ; Schloßstraße 60 ; 22041 Hamburg
Website	www.hamburg.de/ Bezirk-wandsbek
politics
District Office Manager	Thomas Ritzenhoff ( SPD )
	Allocation of seats ( district assembly )
A total of 57 seats Left : 4; Greens : 15; SPD : 16; FDP : 4; CDU : 13; AfD : 5;
Transport links
Highway
Regional train	RB 81
S-Bahn and U-Bahn	;
	Source: Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

The Stormarnhaus , seat of the Wandsbek district office

Wandsbek is one of seven districts in Hamburg . The most populous district with 435,235 (2017) inhabitants is located in the northeast of Hamburg and is divided into 18 districts .

The Wandsbek district was formed by the law on district administration in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg of September 21, 1949, which came into force on May 11, 1951. It includes the area of the city of Wandsbek , which was independent until 1937 , other former Stormarn municipalities, which had also fallen to Hamburg through the Greater Hamburg Act , as well as Eilbek and the forest villages , which had belonged to Hamburg since the Middle Ages.

administration

Election for the district assembly Wandsbek 2019

Turnout: 57.9%

%

30th

20th

10

0

26.7

26.3

22.2

7.7

7.2

7.0

1.2

1.7

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

% p

14th

12

10

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-10

-12

-11.2

+13.1

-7.1

+2.2

± 0.0

+3.1

-0.7

+0.7

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats in the district assembly

4th

15th

16

4th

13

5

4th 15th 16 4th 13 5

A total of 57 seats

Left : 4
Greens : 15
SPD : 16
FDP : 4
CDU : 13
AfD : 5

District Office Wandsbek

The Wandsbek district office has been the seat of the district administration and the district assembly of the Wandsbek district since 1949. The district office is based in the Stormarnhaus, built in 1929 by the well-known architect Fritz Höger . In addition to the district assembly , the district office is divided into the following departments:

D1 Control and Service Department
D2 Citizen Service Department
D3 Department for Social Affairs, Youth and Health
D4 Economy, Building and Environment Division

District Office Manager:

1945–1954: Heinrich Müller (District Manager)
1954–1980: Achim-Helge Freiherr von Beust ( CDU )
1980–1984: Rolf Lange ( SPD )
1985–1987: Dieter Mahnke (SPD)
1987–1993: Ingrid Soehring (CDU)
1993–2001: Klaus Meister (SPD)
2001–2007: Gerhard Fuchs (CDU)
2007–2011: Cornelia Schroeder-Piller (CDU)
since 2011: Thomas Ritzenhoff (SPD)

Districts

district	Area in km²	Population (2014)	Inhabitants / km²	map
Bergstedt	7.1	10,216	1438.87
Bramfeld	10.1	50,838	5033.47
Duvenstedt	6.8	6.253	919.56
Eilbek	1.7	20,981	12341.76
Farmsen-Berne	8.3	34,664	4176.39
Hummelsbüttel	9.2	17,180	1867.39
Jenfeld	5.0	24,751	4950.2
Lemsahl-Mellingstedt	7.9	6,556	829.87
Marienthal	3.3	12,358	3744.85
Poppenbüttel	8.1	22,536	2782.22
Rahlstedt	26.6	88.094	3311.8
Sasel	8.4	23,366	2782.22
Steep shoop	2.5	19,273	7709.2
Tonndorf	3.9	13,691	3510.51
Volksdorf	11.6	20,372	1756.21
Wandsbek	6.0	33,591	5598.5
Wellingsbüttel	4.1	10,415	2540.24
Wohldorf-Ohlstedt	17.3	4,475	258.67

Since 2011, the district has been divided into five regional areas , some of which have taken over the tasks of the former local offices :

Core area (consisting of Eilbek , Jenfeld , Marienthal , Tonndorf and Wandsbek , 104,000 inhabitants)
Alstertal (Hummelsbüttel, Poppenbüttel, Sasel and Wellingsbüttel, 73,000 inhabitants)
Bramfeld (with Farmsen-Berne and Steilshoop, 105,000 inhabitants)
Rahlstedt (86,000 inhabitants) and
Walddörfer (Bergstedt, Duvenstedt, Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, Volksdorf and Wohldorf-Ohlstedt, 46,000 inhabitants)

Constituencies

The Wandsbek district was divided into four constituencies for the election of citizenship and the Wandsbek district assembly:

Constituency	Residents	Constituency number
Wandsbek constituency	102.279	11
Bramfeld-Farmsen-Berne constituency	102,979	12
Alstertal-Walddörfer constituency	118,100	13
Rahlstedt constituency	86,413	14th

Town twinning

Council of Waltham Forest with sign about sister parishes

The Wandsbek district is related to the Waltham Forest district in London .

literature

Michael Pommerening: Wandsbek - A historical tour. Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9807460-6-9 .
Georg-Wilhelm Röpke: Wandsbek - the book. Book publisher Otto Heinevetter, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-929171-51-1 .
Michael Pommerening, Joachim W. Frank: The Wandsbeker Castle - Rantzau, Brahe and the Schimmelmann family. Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-9807460-3-8 .
Helmuth Fricke , Michael Pommerening, Richard Hölck: The churches on the Wandsbeker market. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-9807460-2-X .
Michael Pommerening, Sebastian Weber: With Claudius through Wandsbek - A journey through time with Volker Lechtenbrink. Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9807460-5-2 .

Web links

Commons : Wandsbek district - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Hamburg / Wandsbek - travel guide

Individual evidence

↑ § 1 District Administration Act (BezVG) of July 6, 2006 . HmbGVBl. Part I 2006, No. 33, p. 404 ( landesrecht-hamburg.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).
^ 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 .
↑ Hamburg district profiles 2015 Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2016
^ The Wandsbek district. Information 2011/12. (No longer available online.) Wandsbek district office, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 11, 2016 .

[BezVG-1] § 1 District Administration Act (BezVG) of July 6, 2006 . HmbGVBl. Part I 2006, No. 33, p. 404 ( landesrecht-hamburg.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).

[Einteilung-2] 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 .

[3] Hamburg district profiles 2015 Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2016

[4] The Wandsbek district. Information 2011/12. (No longer available online.) Wandsbek district office, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 11, 2016 .