Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Mitte 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 2016 the population was 301,550.
History
In 1937 several settlements, villages and rural areas were passed into Hamburg enforced by the Greater Hamburg Act.On March 1, 2008 due to a law of Hamburg, 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 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.The historic center of Hamburg lies within the districts Altstadt, Neustadt and HafenCity, also defined by being inside the Wallring. These three districts also constitute what is considered Hamburg's Innenstadt. Green and open spacesis a park located in the quarter St. Pauli and Neustadt. Located in the quarter Billstedt is the lake Öjendorfer See.CultureMuseums and cultural institutionsEconomyHamburg-Mitte is the economic center of Hamburg. Altstadt, Neustadt and HafenCity make up Hamburg's Innenstadt, 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.PoliticsThe Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte is located at Klosterwall 8.Diet of the boroughSimultaneously with elections to the state parliament, the Bezirksversammlung is elected as representatives of the citizens. It consists of 53 representatives.ElectionsElections were held in Hamburg on 24 February 2008. The four parties having more than 5 percent in recent polls are the social-democratic SPD, the conservative CDU, the ecologist Green Party and the left-wing Die Linke. The liberal Free Democratic Party has 2 directly elected representatives.
Dirk Sielmann has been chairman of the district assembly since 2008. His deputies have been Steffen Leipnitz and Clemens Willenbrock since 2019. The district has had a red-green coalition since 2004, interrupted by an SPD-FDP coalition from 2011 to 2014. After the CDU had become the strongest faction in the district for the first time in 2004, the SPD regained this position in 2008. The Greens became the strongest party in the district assembly elections on 26 May 2019. However, accusations of Islamism were made against two members, whereupon the faction constituted itself without these members. At the same time, four other elected members also did not join the Green faction in protest against this. The six deputies initially formed their own faction and finally joined the SPD faction at the beginning of October 2019. DemographicsIn 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. 17,550 people were registered as unemployed and 72,608 were employees subject to social insurance contributions.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. Population by year
In 2006 there were 71,559 criminal offences in borough. InfrastructureThe main local office 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.GovernmentThe Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany has its head office in St. Pauli in Hamburg-Mitte, and the head office of Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation is in the BSH facility.EducationThe borough has 31 elementary schools and 31 secondary schools.Health systemsThere 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. SportsTransportThe borough is serviced by the rapid transit system of the city train and the underground railway with several stations. The central station Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is also for long-distance passenger trains for the German railway company.According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, in the Hamburg-Mitte borough 66,831 private cars were registered. There were 2,432 traffic accidents in total, including 1,905 traffic accidents resulting in injuries. Notable residents
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