Georgswerder
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| Waters | Elbe | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 31 ' N , 10 ° 2' E | |
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Georgswerder is a former inland island in the Lower Elbe in Hamburg . It was originally a fragment of the larger island of Gorieswerder , which was torn to pieces by several severe storm surges in the Middle Ages . In the 18th century Georgswerder was combined with the neighboring islands of Stillhorn and Rotehaus under the name Wilhelmsburg and is still part of the district of the same name in the Hamburg-Mitte district . The western and southern borders of the Georgswerder can still be seen today on the course of the Wilhelmsburger Dove Elbe and the Georgswerder Schleusengraben (in the Rhee nature reserve ).
Despite its proximity to the Port of Hamburg , Georgswerder remained predominantly rural until well into the 20th century. In 1928, however, at least ten people died when a container exploded on the neighboring Peute in the Stoltzenberg chemical factory and then a highly toxic phosgene cloud swept over Georgswerder.
After the Second World War, the Georgswerder landfill was opened, initially for rubble and household waste. From 1967 until the closure in 1979, highly toxic industrial waste and hazardous waste were also stored here. Since it became known in the 1980s that poisonous dioxins were reaching the groundwater via the leachate from the landfill , the landfill has been extensively renovated and transformed into an “energy mountain”.
Georgswerder, like the rest of Wilhelmsburg, was particularly badly affected by the storm surge of 1962 due to its location.
In 2012, a planning workshop was carried out as part of the IBA Hamburg to develop the "Georgswerder 2025 Vision for the Future". Since 2015, the IBA-Gesellschaft has been developing the Georgswerder Kirchenwiese residential quarter and the Fiskalische Strasse industrial estate on behalf of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Around 180 residential units and 15,000 m² GFA commercial space are planned here on an area of 11.6 hectares .
Web links
- ziegenbek.de - private site on the history of Georgswerder
- Project description by IBA Hamburg GmbH
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit September 28, 1979 A life for death
- ^ Project Georgswerder. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .