Altenwerder

Altenwerder

Altenwerder

Quarter of Hamburg in Germany

Altenwerder (German pronunciationⓘ) is a quarter in the Harburg borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. The former village on an Elbe island became a port expansion area in the 1960s. In the 1970s the city of Hamburg announced the formal dispossession of all property to build the Container Terminal Altenwerder. Only the Altenwerder church remains from the old buildings. The terminal started its operation in 2003. Today, Altenwerder is a quarter almost without population. In 2017 the population was 3.

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History

Map of Altenwerder in 1878

The island of Altenwerder was separated from the diked Elbe island of Gorieswerder by the Allerkindlein flood in 1248. The oldest surviving documents mentioning the village of Altenwerder do not mention a date, but have been dated by historians to around 1250. In addition, feudal registers of the Corvey monastery give indirect evidence that Altenwerder may have been used or settled before 844.[1] The name, shown in the early documents as Oldenwerdere, is justified by the fact that this Elbe island, compared to Finkenwerder or Silrandiswerder, was settled earlier and for a longer time, Werder meaning river island.

Since parts of the land had become uninhabitable due to a series of storm surges, among them especially the Cäcilien flood in 1412, Altenwerder was newly diked on the basis of a treaty of February 27, 1418 by the two sovereigns Johann Slamsdorp, the Prince-Archbishop of Bremen and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Geography

In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Altenwerder has a total area of 6.8 km2. In the north is the quarter Waltershof of the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the east is the quarter Wilhelmsburg. Alternwerder borders in the South to Moorburg and in the West to Francop.

Demographics

In 2016 in the quarter Altenwerder were living 3 people.

In 1999 there were 18 households, out of which 11.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 83.3% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.44.[2]

Population by year [3]

1987198819891990199119921993199419951996199719981999
76746790105421410319324130523723
2000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112017
1120n/a002233333

In 2006 there were 54 criminal offences.[4]


Notes

  1. [1]
    "Bevölkerung in Hamburg am 31.12.2017" (PDF). Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein. 10 April 2018.
  2. [2]
    Source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (1999)
  3. [3]
    Residents registration office, source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2006)
  4. [4]
    State Investigation Bureaux (Landeskriminalamt), source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2006)

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