Hamburg-Nord

Hamburg-Nord (Rough translation: Hamburg north) is one of the seven boroughs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in north-western Germany. In 2006, according to the residents registration office the population was 280,229 in an area of 57.5 km2.

Geography

Hamburg-Nord is south of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, east of the Hamburg borough of Wandsbek, north of the borough of Hamburg-Mitte and west of the borough of Altona. Hamburg-Nord consists of the areas of Alsterdorf, Barmbek-Nord, Barmbek-Süd, Dulsberg, Eppendorf, Fuhlsbüttel, Groß Borstel, Hoheluft-Ost, Hohenfelde, Langenhorn, Ohlsdorf, Uhlenhorst and Winterhude. The borough has a total area of 57.5 km² (22.2 sq mi).

Demographics

There were 280,229 people residing in the borough. The population density was 4,838 inhabitants per square kilometre (12,530/sq mi). 12% were children under the age of 18 and 17.8% were 65 years of age or older.

In 2006 there were 31,617 criminal offences in borough (113 crimes per 1000 people).

Hamburg Nord (electoral district)

Hamburg Nord (English: Hamburg north) is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. Located in the north of Hamburg, the district was created for the 1980 election, combining parts of the abolished Hamburg Nord I and Hamburg Nord II districts. The first two elections in 1980 and 1983 were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the constituency was then represented by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1987 to 1998 when it was regained by the SPD. The constituency was then regained by the CDU at the 2009 election. The current MP is Dirk Fischer, who had previously represented the constituency from 1987 to 1998.

Boundaries

It includes eight of the thirteen districts in the borough of Hamburg-Nord: Alsterdorf, Eppendorf, Fuhlsbüttel, Groß Borstel, Hoheluft-Ost, Langenhorn, Ohlsdorf and Winterhude as well as eight of the eighteen districts in the borough of Wandsbek: Bergstedt, Duvenstedt, Hummelsbüttel, Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, Poppenbüttel, Sasel, Wellingsbüttel and Wohldorf-Ohlstedt. At the 2009 general election 207,017 residents were eligible to vote.

Hamburg

Hamburg (/ˈhæmbɜːrɡ/; German pronunciation: [ˈhambʊʁk], local pronunciation [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç]; Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːx]), officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is also the thirteenth largest German state. Its population is over 1.7 million people, and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 5 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe.

The official name reflects its history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state, and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign state. Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the stringent civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten.

Hamburg is a transport hub and is an affluent city in Europe. It has become a media and industrial centre, with plants and facilities belonging to Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis. The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + Jahr and Spiegel-Verlag are pillars of the important media industry in Hamburg. Hamburg has been an important financial centre for centuries, and is the seat of the world's second oldest bank, Berenberg Bank.

Hamburg (surname)

Hamburg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Hamburg (barque)

Hamburg was a three masted barque built in 1886 at Hantsport, Nova Scotia. She was the largest three masted barque ever built in Canada .

Background

Hamburg was one of the last of over a hundred large sailing vessels built by the Churchill family of Hantsport, led by Ezra Churchill. The barque was named after Hamburg, Germany, continuing a Churchill family tradition of naming ships after ports where they often sought cargoes.

Career

The barque's captain for almost her entire career was Andrew B. Coldwell. Hamburg worked mostly Atlantic trades but also made several long Pacific voyages, rounded Cape Horn many times and made one circumnavigation of the world in 1891. She called at her namesake port of Hamburg, Germany in 1895. She was converted to a gypsum barge in 1908 and served 17 years carrying gypsum under tow from the Minas Basin to New York. Her working career ended in 1925 when she was beached at Summerville, Hants County, Nova Scotia, just across and downriver from the site of her launch at Hantsport. In 1936, her massive wooden hull was burned to the waterline, leaving her lower hull partially covered and preserved in river silt.