London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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status London Borough
region Greater London
Administrative headquarters Blackwall
surface 19.77 km²
Residents 317,705
Population density 16,070 inhabitants / km 2
was standing 2018
ONS code 00BG
Website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets [ ˈtaʊə ˌhæmlɪts ] is a borough of London east of the city center. The name refers to an old British administrative area, the Tower Hamlets , which was directly subordinate to the constable of the Tower . It covers much of the historic East End . Most of the former Docklands area with the West India Docks and Canary Wharf is located in Tower Hamlets ; therefore it is considered a traditional working-class neighborhood. When the Greater London Administrative Region was founded in 1965, the district was created from the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green , the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar and the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in the former County of London .

history

The districts east of the city wall had been residential areas for day laborers for centuries. Small business in this area experienced a decline with industrialization ; in the south of the district on the Isle of Dogs the Docklands, the shipyards and docks of London , arose . Most of the area's residents were port workers. Seven people were murdered in the Ratcliff neighborhood in December 1811. The killer, who in slum raged, committed suicide after arrest in his prison cell suicide . Also Whitechapel in the west of the district is a dubious reputation by widespread poverty, crime and prostitution, such as acquired Jack the Ripper to mischief drove here 1888th The area was also the point of contact for various immigrant groups , such as Huguenots , Germans (there are still churches in the district that offer bilingual services), Irish and Sephardic as well as Eastern European Jews . Modern boxing also originated here .

During World War II , the district suffered massive damage from German air raids aimed at damaging Docklands. After the war, numerous residents left the area to move to newly built apartments further outside, while the decline of the port and shipyards began, which gave rise to a large industrial wasteland in the former Docklands. Since the 1970s, immigrants from South Asia, mostly from Bangladesh, moved to the area and formed ethnic colonies. Since then there have been numerous attempts to revitalize and upgrade the area, most recently as part of the 2012 Olympic Games ; as a result, parts of the district are subject to severe gentrification . In the Docklands area there were banking and business districts with the tallest skyscrapers in London; In addition, Queen Mary University relocated its main campus to the Mile End district, the affordable housing is popular with artists and students. However, some areas are still among the poorest in the country.

The history of the Docklands was processed in the Museum of London Docklands.

population

Muslim restaurant in Whitechapel that offers halal products

The population is multicultural and in 2008 consisted of 54.5% white, 34.0% Asian, 5.0% black and 2.6% Chinese.

Nowadays, Tower Hamlets is home to many immigrants from India , Pakistan and especially Bangladesh as well as Somalia , the district has the highest proportion of Muslims in Great Britain (around 36%, the national average is 3%). Due to various incidents, warnings have often been given in recent years against the “ Islamization ” of the district and against the great influence of fundamentalist groups.

politics

Left parties traditionally dominated in the district, v. a. the Labor Party . In the general election of 2005 in the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow , which includes the north of the district, for the first time no Labor Party member was elected to parliament, but a representative of the Respect Party , namely the Labor “party rebel” and peace activist George Galloway . Since the 2010 elections , both MPs have again been elected by the Labor Party.

In October 2010, Lutfur Rahman, a member of the controversial Islamic Forum of Europe , was elected mayor with a very low turnout against the Labor Party candidate. On the occasion of this election, the conservative daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph diagnosed the takeover of the district by radical Muslims, according to the article headline: “London borough becomes 'Islamic republic'” (German: “London Borough becomes Islamic Republic”). Lutfur Rahman won the mayoral election in 2014, as an electoral review court found in retrospect, through bribery and massive election fraud. Lutfur Rahman was suspended from office with immediate effect by the court ruling on April 23, 2015. The scandal attracted Tower Hamlets' attention well beyond London. The new election in June 2015 was won by Labor candidate John Biggs.

In the local elections in May 2018, the Labor Party won 42 of the 45 seats in the district council.

Offenbach am Main and Mödling are twin cities of Tower Hamlets. The Bethnal Green district has a partnership with the Luxembourg municipality of Esch-sur-Alzette .

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  1. ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
  2. ^ ONS mid-2007 Ethnic Group Population Estimates. (PDF, 89 KB) (No longer available online.) Greater London Authority, October 2009, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on May 23, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / legacy.london.gov.uk
  3. ↑ Jochen Buchsteiner: The Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 22, 2014, p. 3.
  4. ↑ London borough becomes 'Islamic republic'
  5. ↑ BBC: Tower Hamlets election fraud mayor Lutfur Rahman removed from office , accessed May 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ In the matter of the Representation of the People Act 1983 and in the matter of a Mayoral Election for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets held on 22 May 2014 (judgment M / 350/14 of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, in full), accessed on May 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ Jochen Buchsteiner: End of a dishonorable reign. An impeachment in London . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 25, 2015, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Election results for Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election - Thursday, June 11th, 2015 , accessed May 31, 2017.
  9. ↑ Local Elections - Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 , accessed June 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ town twinning. From: offenbach.de, accessed on March 25, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′  N , 0 ° 2 ′  W