Fünfhausen is a place in

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. It is a part of the borough

Bergedorf Bergedorf () is the largest of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany, named after Bergedorf quarter within this borough. In 2020 the population of the borough was 130,994. History The city of Bergedorf received town privileges in 1275, then ...

and the quarter

Kirchwerder Kirchwerder () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Bergedorf. It is located on the southeast border of Hamburg at the Elbe river. Geography Kirchwerder is a part of the Vierlande and is located at the Elbe river. Therefore it is ...

History

During

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, 50 wooden homes were built for families which were affected by the bombing in the city. At that time the people from

used to call Fünfhausen ''Kistendorf'' (box village) because of the cubic shaped houses. In October 1954 Fünfhausen was visited by the German

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Geography

Fünfhausen is located in the quarter

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. West of Fünfhausen is the quarter

Ochsenwerder Ochsenwerder () is a quarter in Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Bergedorf. In 2020 the population was over 3,000. Agriculture plays a very big role in this quarter for the metropolitan area. Geography Ochsenwerder is in the southeast of Hamb ...

. In the center is the Sandbrack Lake and nearby is the Hohendeicher Lake and the

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Re ...

river. North of it is the Gose Elbe. The main streets are ''Durchdeich'', ''Ochsenwerder Landscheideweg'' and ''Süderquerweg''.

Transportation

Fünfhausen has no

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble c ...

U-Bahn Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and fourteen S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn (''underground railway'') are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while ...

station. However several bus lines pass through the neighborhood. The lines 122, 124, 127, 222, 224, and 422 connect Fünfhausen to the

central station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

/ ZOB and Bergedorf station. The lines 222 and 422 are special lines which operate before and after school hours. The largest bus station is ''Fünfhausen (Durchdeich)''.

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Fünfhausen in the borough Harburg

There is a second much smaller place in

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which is called Fünfhausen in the borough Harburg in the district

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. It is located at the

and borders

Seevetal Seevetal (Northern Low Saxon: ''Seevdaal'') is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Hamburg, and 15 km west of Winsen (Luhe). Its seat is in the village Hittfel ...

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. Coordinates for Fünfhausen in Harburg: 53° 27′ 46″ N, 10° 2′ 53″ E {{DEFAULTSORT:Fünfhausen Zones of Hamburg Geography of Hamburg Bergedorf