Reiherstieg district
The Reiherstiegviertel is a residential area in the northwest of the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg . The name comes from the location of the quarter on Elbarm Reiherstieg or on the former Elbe island of the same name. The quarter emerged from the end of the 1880s as a workers' residential quarter close to the port and for a long time formed the urban core of the otherwise still rural Wilhelmsburg. The initiative for the development came from private investors such as the brothers Carl and Hermann Vering , who bought land from the Wilhelmsburg farmers at low prices, parceled it out and systematically developed it with the construction of roads and canals.
After the storm surge in 1962 , which claimed most of the victims here, the area was originally supposed to be abandoned and designated as a port expansion area. Since the 1970s and 1980s, more and more Turkish “ guest workers ” settled here, later also students and artists. In the course of the IBA Hamburg 2013 and the “leap across the Elbe” propagated by the Senate, the area is increasingly being upgraded and “ gentrified ”.
The quarter is predominantly characterized by apartment buildings from the turn of the century to the interwar period, including many cooperative buildings and former company apartments (including those of Hapag ). Sights are u. a. Protestant Emmaus Church in 1895 and based in the former factory Cultural honey factory .
literature
- Margret Markert: An island becomes an industrial area. Portrait of the Reiherstieg district. In: Geschichtswerkstatt Wilhelmsburg Honigfabrik eV (Ed.): Wilhelmsburg. Hamburgs Große Elbeinsel, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3937843-46-9 pp. 40–58.
- Reiherstiegviertel, in: Christin Springer: Wilhelmsburg- & Elbinsel-Buch , Junius Verlag Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88506-024-6 , pp. 126–155.
Web links
- Reiherstiegviertel on internationale-bauausstellung-hamburg.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 14.6 ″ E