Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is a country and a unified community. It is divided into seven sub-areas, divided the districts in which there is an administrative unit each have a district office. The district offices is headed by a District Manager. The district administration is responsible for a number of decentralized true increasing administrative tasks, especially in the social, health, construction, registration, housing and real estate as well as being in the area of ​​economic surveillance. Each district has for consultation and participation in management and policy issues each district a District Assembly.

The seven districts of Hamburg are in total 104 districts (as of 1 January 2011 ) can be subdivided, which consist of one or more districts. These are geographical and statistical, but no political units.

• 3.1 Mansion machinations
• 3.2 incorporations at a glance
• 3.3 territorial reforms of the National Socialists 3.3.1 losses

The districts in the overview

The districts and their individual subdivisions

City and district

The districts consist of several parts of the city, whose names and boundaries are often historically grown. The districts are divided for administrative and statistical purposes, again, mostly in several districts. The 181 districts of Hamburg (as of 1 January 2011 ) are designated by a three digit number whose first digit for the district is (Example: The district of Neustadt in the district Hamburg-Mitte consists of four districts from 105 to 108, the relatively small District Cranz in the district of Harburg only from a district 718, with identical city and district boundary).

The largest area district is William Castle ( 35.3 km ²), the smallest of the newly formed district in 2008 Sternschanze (0.47 km ²; previously High air - East with 0.581 km ²). The most populous district is Rahlstedt with 86 962 inhabitants ( as of 2011), while for Altenwerder only 3 inhabitants are recorded.

A further breakdown of Hamburg, within the scope of the survey for the land in designated districts that are in parcels (formerly known as Hamburg plots) divided.

In addition to these official subdivisions, there are other historical or created more recently names for districts, district or districts, as well as scenic larger areas and other geographic units ( for example, floor and island names).

District Hamburg-Mitte

District of Hamburg, with 19 districts: Hamburg-Altstadt, Bill Brook, Billstedt, Borgfelde, Finkenwerder, HafenCity, Hamm, Hammer Brook, Horn, Kleiner Grasbrookhafen, Neustadt, Neuwerk ( exclave ), Rothenburgsort, St. Georg, St. Pauli, Steinwerder, Veddel, Waltershof, William Castle.

Altona district

District of Hamburg, with 14 districts: Altona -Altstadt, Altona -Nord, Bahr field Blankenese, United Flottbeck, Iserbrook, Lurup, Nienstedten, Osdorf, Othmarschen, Ottensen, cracks, star jump, Sülldorf.

District Eimsbuettel

District of Hamburg with 9 districts: Eidelstedt, Eimsbuettel, Harvestehude High air -West, Lokstedt, Niendorf, Rother tree, Schnelsen, Stellingen.

Bezirk Hamburg -Nord

District of Hamburg, with 13 districts: Alstersdorf, Barmbek -Nord, Barmbek -Süd, Dulsberg, Eppendorf, Fuhlsbiittel, Groß Borstel, high field, high air - East, Long Horn, Ohlsdorf, Uhlenhorst, Winterhude.

Wandsbek

District of Hamburg, with 18 districts: Bergstedt, Bramfeld, Duvenstedt, Eilbek, Farmsen -Berne, Hummelsbüttel, Jenfeld, Lemsahl - Mellingstedt, Marienthal, Poppenbuettel, Rahlstedt, Sasel, Steilshoop Tonndorf, folk village, Wandsbek, Wellingsbüttel, Wohldorf- Ohlstedt.

Bergedorf district

The three maps show not even the new (as of 1 January 2011) Neuallermöhe district.

District of Hamburg, with 14 districts: Allermoehe, Altengamme, Bergedorf, Bill Werder, Curslack, Kirchwerder, Lohbruegge, Moor Fleet, Neuallermöhe, Neuengamme, Ochsenwerder, Reitbrook, Spadenland, Tatenberg.

Harburg

District of Hamburg, with 17 districts: Old Werder, Cranz, Eißendorf, Francop, Good Moor, Harburg, house breaking, home field, Langenbek, Marmstorf, Moor Castle, Neuenfelde, Neugraben- Fischbek, Neuland, Rönneburg, Sinstorf, Wilstorf.

History

Mansion machinations

Like most former imperial cities could also Hamburg in history beside the actual town area attract surrounding villages and towns for themselves and placed under its sovereignty or manage them together with other States. The " territory " of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg was therefore of the actual city and the so-called " land area ", ie a large number of rural communities, including the outer districts of the present districts of Hamburg -Mitte, Hamburg-Nord and Eimsbuettel as well as the so-called forest villages. Most of these rural communities formed with the City of Hamburg a closed territory, but some were as enclaves completely outside (eg Ritzebüttel at the mouth of the Elbe ). Likewise, there were small enclaves, as in the four lands, like the city of Bergedorf were jointly managed with the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, before the sovereign rights in 1868 fell entirely to Hamburg.

The land area has been divided since the 15th century Mansion machinations, their cut changed several times in the course of time. In the Empire in 1871, the territory of Hamburg was divided into the following areas:

• The city of Hamburg (Old Town, New Town, and - since 1868 - St. George)
• The suburb of St. Pauli and 15 suburbs ( Rother tree, Harvestehude Eimsbuettel, Eppendorf, Winterhude, Uhlenhorst, Barmbek, Eilbek, High field, Borgfelde, Hamm, Horn, Bill Werder rash, Steinwerder and Small Grasbrookhafen ) - these were amalgamated in 1894 to Hamburg,
• The land area, divided into the Mansion machinations of the Geest land, the marsh land, mountains and village Ritzebüttel.

At that time were not part of the Hamburg territory the independent cities Altona, Wandsbek (both since 1866 to the Prussian province of Schleswig -Holstein belonging ) and Harburg and William Castle ( province of Hannover). These four came only through the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, Hamburg.

Incorporations at a glance

Specifically, the following suburbs, towns and areas were annexed into the city Hamburg:

• The urban district of Harburg- William Castle ( with the previously eingemeindeten suburbs)
• From the district of Harburg, the communities Altenwerder, Finkenwerder, Fischbek Francop, Good Moor, ( Hannöversch ) Kirchwerder, Langenbek, Marmstorf, Neuenfelde, Neugraben, Neuland, Rönneburg, Sinstorf as well as parts of the community over

• From the district of Stade the community Cranz

1 These areas were incorporated on April 1 inception in 1937, the Hamburg territory.

Territorial reforms of the National Socialists

Through the Greater Hamburg Act of the National Socialists (entered into force on 1 April 1937) was Hamburg from April 1, 1937 to April 1, 1938 in five cities (Hamburg, Altona, Harburg- William Castle, Wandsbek and Bergedorf ), the old Hamburger land area and the new district of Hamburg, which was formed from the 27 former Prussian towns divided.

As of April 1, 1938 all made Hamburg a unified community. At the same time urban populated areas were combined to form a municipality and the Alster, the forest villages, four and marshlands, the suburbs of Harburg and the suburbs of Altona to a country district. Again, a year later, on April 1, 1939, announced to the entire Hamburg area ten circles a, which 110 districts and 178 districts were downstream - were after war damages in July 1943 and the subsequent evacuation of large parts of the population of the entire city reduced on 15 November 1943, the ten circles on six and the area divided into the following 23 local offices:

• Circle 1 = Lokstedt, Winterhude, Eppendorf, Eimsbuettel, downtown
• Circle 4 = St. George, Billstedt, Barmbek-Nord, Uhlenhorst
• Circle 7 = Altona, Flottbeck - Othmarschen, Stellingen Blankenese
• Circle 8 = William Castle, Harburg, Southern Elbe, Finkenwerder
• District 9 = Bergedorf, four and Marschlande
• Circle 10 = Wandsbek, forest villages, Alster, Rahlstedt

The centralized administrative divisions of Hamburg from 1939, which was based on the party circles of the Nazi Party and was also maintained after the Second World War, although there have been proposals to make the management structure of the State of Hamburg by means of decentralized communities again.

Losses

The following areas were received on April 1, 1937 the territory lost:

The city of Cuxhaven with rural areas, the city of Geesthacht and the former forest villages Schmalenbeck and Gr. Hans village.

District reform in 1949

On September 21, 1949, the Hamburg Parliament decided the law on the district administration in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, which entered into force on 11 May 1951. Albeit in slightly modified boundary curves - - As a result, the creation of the still existing seven districts was decided. The district offices were subordinate to local offices and local services. The conceptual basis of the structure arose from the 1948 report to the Senate submitted the reorganization of the municipal administration of the city of Hamburg by Oskar Mulert, the former acting president of the German Association of Cities. To advise local government policy issues and to participate in the administrative district committees were created in 1949 in all districts. They were renamed in 1961 in district assemblies. The breakdown of the districts is due to a sectoral principle: the central-peripheral alignment has almost every district of the compressed inner city areas, while also the less densely populated areas on outer.

District administrative reform of 2006

Until February 29, 2008, each district was divided into a core area and one to four local exchange areas. As part of the District administrative reform, the local offices and the local committees were dissolved. As of 1 February 2007, the district offices were uniformly re-organized and available to date local offices resolved ( with the above local-office managers ) and local services. The duties of the former local authorities are now perceived by the district offices and regional customer centers and the former local committees replaced by regional committees. By adopted on 18 July 2006 by the Hamburg Parliament Act on the spatial organization of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg also occurred on March 1, 2008, the following territorial changes in force:

• The district Wilhelm castle changed by the District to the district of Harburg Hamburg-Mitte;
• Of part of a territory of the districts of Hamburg -Mitte, Altona and Eimsbuettel the new Sternschanze district was formed, which was assigned to the Altona district;
• In the district Hamburg-Mitte, the new HafenCity district was formed made ​​up of areas of the city districts in Hamburg -Altstadt, Klostertor and Rothenburgsort;
• The district was abolished and the Klostertor not the new HafenCity district mapped part was assigned to the district Hammerbrookstraße.

More area and district changes since 1949

The islands until 1937 the Hamburg Neuwerk and Scharhörn with a part of the Wadden Sea ( and of the later island Nigehörn ) decreased in 1969 due to a planned but never built deepwater port from the state of Lower Saxony back to Hamburg. The area in the Elbe estuary was assigned as Neuwerk district the district Hamburg-Mitte. Mid-1970s, it also gave the district Bergedorf ( in Altengamme district ) Make minor adjustments by corrections to the borders of Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig -Holstein in the barrage Geesthacht.

Apart from the same time made ​​with the district administrative reform of 2008 amendments to the neighborhoods in the district in Farmsen Farmsen -Berne was founded in 1961 and renamed in 1970 repealed rash in the district Hamburg-Mitte district of Bill Werder and assigned to the field of Rothenburgsort. On 1 January 2011 the districts of Hamm-Nord, Hamm -Mitte and Hamm -Süd became the Hamm district merged ( district remained subdivision 121-127 ) and re- created in the district Bergedorf district Neuallermöhe in the district of Hamburg-Mitte. This consists of the residential areas Neuallermöhe East (previously part of the territory of the district Bergedorf ) and Neuallermöhe -West ( previously part of Allermoehe ) together. At the same time, the settlement Alt- Nettelnburg from the district Allermoehe has now been assigned to the district of Bergedorf and also transferred a small area on the railway line from Bill Werder district of Bergedorf.

Institutions of the district administration

In the districts of each county, there is a system that performs decentralized and locally based management tasks with its various departments with, professional offices and service centers. For citizens ( the former local offices or on site ) were established for tasks of the registration office in the wake of the district administration reform customer service centers at the district offices. In part, still under construction, the social service centers for government transfers and support services and the Centres for Economic Development, Building and Environment.

In addition, the practice of the Senate are subject to Fachbehhörden (ministries in area countries ) and even municipal offices of tasks throughout the territory of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The service supervisor ( District Authority) is up to the competent also for other affairs of the District Administration Office 6 of the tax authority, which emerged from the Senate Office of District Affairs.

The districts each have a District Assembly, which is elected every four years, parallel to the state election by direct vote. The members of the District Assemblies are sometimes referred to as " District deputy ", although they are not members. At the head of government ( the district office ) is the District Manager, who is elected by the district assembly, but needs to take office to confirmation by the Senate.

However, the self-government of the districts do not match those of communities in other states. This is among other things reflected in the fact that the District Manager requires the assumption of office of the confirmation by the Senate, and that decisions of the district's instances can be set by the Senate repealed by pulling the matter in question by evocation itself or technically responsible senators binding individual instructions adopted.