Hamburg-Mitte (, "Hamburg Central") is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany, covering most of the city's urban center. The quarters of Hamburg-Altstadt and Neustadt cover much of the city's historic core. In 2020 the population was 301,231.
History
In 1937 several settlements (e.g. Finkenwerder), villages and rural areas were passed into Hamburg enforced by the Greater Hamburg Act.
On 1 March 2008 due to a law of Hamburg,[Act of the areal organisation] the quarter Wilhelmsburg was transferred from the borough Harburg. The neighborhood HafenCity was formed from parts of the quarters Klostertor, Altstadt and Rothenburgsort. The other part of Klostertor was transferred to Hammerbrook. From small parts of the borough Hamburg-Mitte (And Altona and Eimsbüttel) the neighborhood Sternschanze was created as a quarter in the borough Altona.
Geography
The borough severs Hamburg from the east to the west. In 2006, according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg-Mitte has a total area of .
Subdivisions
Hamburg-Mitte consists of the quarters
Billbrook,
Billstedt,
Borgfelde,
Finkenwerder,
HafenCity,
Hamburg-Altstadt,
Hamburg-Hamm,
Hammerbrook, Horn, Kleiner Grasbrook, Neustadt,
Neuwerk,
Rothenburgsort, St. Georg, St. Pauli, Steinwerder,
Veddel,
Waltershof and Wilhelmsburg.
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The historic center of Hamburg lies within the districts Altstadt, Neustadt and HafenCity, also defined by being inside the
Hamburg Wallring. These three districts also constitute what is considered Hamburg's Innenstadt (inner city).
Green and open spaces
Planten un Blomen (plants and flowers) is a park located in the quarter St. Pauli and Neustadt. Located in the quarter
Billstedt is the lake
Öjendorfer See.
Culture
Museums and cultural institutions
Economy
Hamburg-Mitte is the economic center of Hamburg. Altstadt, Neustadt and HafenCity make up Hamburg's Innenstadt (inner city), the city's shopping and central business district, while Hammerbrook's City Süd is an important decentralized business district. The facilities of the Port of Hamburg are located mostly in Hamburg-Mitte in the quarters of Kleiner Grasbrook, Steinwerder, Veddel, Waltershof and Wilhelmsburg.
Politics
The Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte is located at Klosterwall 8.
Diet of the borough
Simultaneously with elections to the state parliament (
Bürgerschaft), the
Bezirksversammlung is elected as representatives of the citizens. It consists of 53 representatives.
Elections
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Parties
! %
! ±
! Seats
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party
| 28.5
| 1.5
| style="text-align:center;" | 14
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Alliance 90/The Greens
| 21.1
| 8.2
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union
| 15.6
| 3.5
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | The Left
| 14.8
| 0.8
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Alternative for Germany
| 10.2
| 2.5
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
Volt Germany
| 5.1
| 5.1
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party
| 4.8
| ± 0.0
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Total
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|
! style="text-align:center;" | 51
|}
Demographics
In 2006 233,144 people lived in the borough. The population density was . 14.9% were children under the age of 18, and 15.6% were 65 years of age or older. 43% belong to ethnic minorities.
[ Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund in den Hamburger Stadtteilen statistik-nord.de (in German) 10 August 2010 Retrieved 27 June 2023] 17,550 people were registered as unemployed and 72,608 were employees subject to
social insurance contributions.
[Residents registration office, source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (31 December 2006)]
In 1999 there were 126,753 households, out of which 17.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 52.4% of all households were made up of single occupants. The average household size was 1.83.[Source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (1999)]
Population by year
In 2006 there were 71,559 criminal offences in borough (307 crimes per 1000 people).[State Investigation Bureaux (Landeskriminalamt), source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2006)]
Infrastructure
The main local office (
Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte) is located on
Klosterwall. It has 4 local offices or "Customer Centres." These are Customer Centre Hamburg-Mitte, Customer Centre Billstedt, Customer Centre St. Pauli, and Customer Centre Wilhelmsburg. The offices are responsible, among other things, for the application for a residence permit for purposes of study after entering the country.
Government
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH) has its head office in St. Pauli in Hamburg-Mitte,
[" Impressum ." Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany. Retrieved on 19 April 2014. "Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78 20359 Hamburg Postfach 30 12 20 20305 Hamburg"] and the head office of Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation is in the BSH facility.
[" Imprint." Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation. Retrieved on 16 January 2012. "Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung (BSU) Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 78 20359 Hamburg " – Map ]
Education
The borough has 31 elementary schools and 31 secondary schools.
Health systems
There were 125 day-care centers for children and 536 physicians in private practice and 72 pharmacies.
The
Asklepios Klinik St. Georg located in the quarter St. Georg, is the main hospital in Hamburg-Mitte.
Sports
Transport
The borough is serviced by the
rapid transit system of the
Hamburg S-Bahn and the
Hamburg S-Bahn with several stations. The central station
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is also for long-distance passenger trains for the
Deutsche Bahn.
According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the Hamburg-Mitte borough 66,831 private cars were registered (290 cars/1000 people).[Source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (31 December 2006)] There were 2,432 traffic accidents in total, including 1,905 traffic accidents resulting in injuries.[Traffic accident statistic, statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2006)]
Notable residents
General sources
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