List of streets in Hamburg-Hoheluft-West

Location of Hoheluft-West in Hamburg and in the Eimsbüttel district (light red)

The list of streets in Hamburg-Hoheluft-West is an overview of the streets currently in the Hamburg district of Hoheluft-West . It is part of the list of traffic areas in Hamburg .

overview

In Hoheluft-West (district numbers 315 and 316) there are 9,694 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on 0.7 km². This makes the district the third smallest in terms of area and at the same time the most densely populated. Hoheluft-West is in the postcode areas 20253 and 22529.

There are 21 named streets in Hoheluft-West, eleven of which are entirely in the district. There is only one topic group for the street names:

Prussian Generals ( Generalsviertel ): Gneisenaustraße , Goebenstraße , Kottwitzstraße , Mansteinstraße , Moltkestraße , Roonstraße and Wrangelstraße . The Contastraße is, however, named for a colonel.

Overview of the streets

The following table gives an overview of all designated traffic areas in the district and some related information. In detail these are:

Name / location : current name of the street. Via the link ( location ), the street can be displayed on various map services. The geoposition indicates approximately the middle. In the case of longer streets that lead through two or more parts of the city, it is therefore possible that the coordinate is in a different part of the city.
Street key : official street key, consisting of a letter (first letter of the street) and a three-digit number.
Length / dimensions in meters:
Note: The length information contained in the overview are overview values rounded up or down according to mathematical rules , which were determined in the Digital Atlas North with the local scale. They are more for comparison purposes and, if official values are known, are exchanged and marked separately.
The addition ( in the district ) indicates how long the street is within the district if it runs through several districts.
Name origin : origin or reference of the name.
Date of designation : Year of the official designation or the first mention of a name, in case of uncertainty also the specification of a period.
Notes : Further information on nearby institutions, the history of the street, historical names, monuments, etc.
Image : Photo of the street or an adjacent object.

Name / location	Road key	Length / dimensions (in meters)	Origin of name	Date of designation	Remarks
Bismarckstrasse ( Location )	B377	540 (in the district)	Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prime Minister of Prussia and first Chancellor of the German Empire	1869	southwestern part in Eimsbüttel
Bogenstrasse ( Location )	B455	050 (in the district)	after the slightly arched course in the southeast and oldest part of the street	1877	southeastern part in Eimsbüttel and Harvestehude
Christian-Förster-Strasse ( Location )	C029	320	Christian Förster (1825–1902), etcher and draftsman	1948	before 1948: Alsenstrasse
Contastraße ( Location )	C046	140	Bernhard von Conta (1816–1899), colonel and commander of the Hanseatic infantry regiment	1901
Eidelstedter way ( Location )	E077	060 (in the district)	Eidelstedt , district of Hamburg	1896	1948 shortened by Unnastraße ; western part in Eimsbüttel , Lokstedt and Stellingen
Eppendorfer way ( Location )	E197	760 (in the district)	Connection road from Eimsbüttel to Eppendorf	1863	1950 extended by Goßlerstrasse (before 1898 Adlerstrasse ); southwestern part (former Goßlerstraße ) in Eimsbüttel , northeastern part in Hoheluft-Ost
Gartnerstrasse ( Location )	G007	870	probably after the vegetable nurseries that existed here for a long time	1864	Part of Bundesstraße 5 and Ring 2
Gneisenaustrasse ( Location )	G125	370	August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian Field Marshal General	1909
Goebenstrasse ( Location )	G129	080 (in the district)	August Karl von Goeben (1816–1880), Prussian general	1889, 1899	southern part in Eimsbüttel ; in Hoheluft-West without residents
Heckscherstrasse ( Location )	H217	510	Johann Gustav Heckscher (1797–1865), lawyer and politician, Hamburg deputy in the Frankfurt National Assembly , Minister-Resident in Vienna	1948	before 1948: Düppelstrasse
Hoheluftchaussee ( Location )	H546	990	after a hill called "Hoge luft" since the 17th century on the old city limits of Hamburg, on which the street, coming from the Isebekniederung , leads; their name comes either from the windy position of the hill or in allusion to a gallows that may have been erected there, where the hanged people came to "high air"	1864	eastern side in Hoheluft-Ost ; north of Gärtnerstrasse part of federal road 447
Kottwitzstrasse ( Location )	K393	560	Hugo von Kottwitz (1815–1897), Prussian general	1901, 1949	south of the Eppendorfer Weg formerly: Blücherstraße
Mansteinstrasse ( Location )	M032	490	Gustav von Manstein (1805–1877), Prussian general, honorary citizen of the city of Altona	1874
Moltkestrasse ( Location )	M240	380	Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800–1891), Prussian Field Marshal General, honorary citizen of Hamburg	1873
Quickbornstrasse ( Location )	Q013	430	Quickborn , town in Schleswig-Holstein	1893
Roonstrasse ( Location )	R275	360	Albrecht von Roon (1803–1879), Prussian Field Marshal General, Minister of War and Prime Minister	1874
crossroads ( Location )	S137	380	Scheide, i.e. border, between Eimsbüttel and Eppendorf	1879	southwest side in Eimsbüttel
Troplowitzstrasse ( Location )	T198	560 (in the district)	Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918), pharmacist and entrepreneur, continued Paul Carl Beiersdorf's company, which then developed Nivea	1971	before 1971: Bötelkamp (partially); western part and north side of the eastern part in Lokstedt ; Beiersdorf AG headquarters
Unna Street ( Location )	U025	420	Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929), Hamburg doctor and dermatologist, chief physician at the Eppendorf Hospital , professor at the University of Hamburg , worked with the pharmacist Paul Carl Beiersdorf and his successor Oscar Troplowitz	1948	before 1948: part of the Eidelstedter Weg ; southwest side in Eimsbüttel ; Beiersdorf AG headquarters
Wiesingerweg ( Location )	W249	430	August Wiesinger (1850–1922), chief surgeon at St. Georg Hospital	1948	until 1948: Koldingstrasse ; western side of the northern part in Lokstedt
Wrangelstrasse ( Location )	W398	910	Friedrich von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian field marshal	1874

Individual evidence

↑ Digital Atlas North
↑ ^a ^b according to Beckershaus
↑ ^a ^b according to Hanke
↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Building and Transport, Office for Geoinformation and Surveying (Ed.): Plan of Hamburg around 1915 . Hamburg 2002.

Literature and Sources

Statistics Office North: Street and area directory of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names - where they come from and what they mean , 6th edition, CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86393-009-7
Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell history , 4th edition, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-929229-41-7

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[1] Digital Atlas North

[Beckershaus-2] rding to Beckershaus

[Hanke-3] rding to Hanke

[4] Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Building and Transport, Office for Geoinformation and Surveying (Ed.): Plan of Hamburg around 1915 . Hamburg 2002.