Kleiner Grasbrook () is a quarter () of

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within the borough () of Hamburg-Mitte. It is situated on the eponymous island between the Northern and Southern branches of the

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river ( and ), together with the other quarters of Steinwerder, Veddel and Wilhelmsburg. It almost exclusively consists of facilities of the

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. The four quarters are technically all islands of their own, as they are all separated by their own dams. In 2020 the population was 1,120.

History

It is believed that the

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Klaus Störtebeker was beheaded on the Grasbrook island in 1400 or 1401. During

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the port of Hamburg and therefore Kleiner Grasbrook were targets of the air raids of the so-called Operation Gomorrah. From mid-July 1944 until October 1945 the subcamp Dessauer Ufer to the

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existed in the quarter. On the night of 16 to 17 February 1962 the island was widely flooded and seriously damaged by a north sea flood.

Geography

In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Kleiner Grasbrook quarter has a total area of . Kleiner Grasbrook borders in the north to the

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quarter. In the east is the Veddel quarter and in the west the Steinwerder quarter. In the south is the Wilhelmsburg quarter.

Demographics

In 2006 Kleiner Grasbrook had 1,219 inhabitants. The population density was . 12.7% of the population were under the age of 18, and 8% were 65 years of age or older. 55.9% were resident aliens. 137 people were registered as unemployed.Residents registration office, source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2007) In 1999 there were 694 households, out of which 21.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, and 47.7% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.95. Population by year In 2006 there were 334 criminal offences (274 crimes per 1,000 people).State Investigation Bureaux ( Landeskriminalamt), source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2007)

Politics

These are the results of the Hamburg state election:

Economy

Parts of the

are located in the Kleiner Grasbrook quarter.

Infrastructure

There were no schools in the quarter and no physicians in private practice and no pharmacies.

Transportation

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter were 113 private cars registered (93 cars/1,000 people).Source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2007)

Notes

References

Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, official website

External links

Homepage
of the unincorporated association ''Kleiner Grasbrook e.V.''. {{Boroughs of Hamburg Quarters of Hamburg Hamburg-Mitte