is a quarter (''Stadtteil'') of
Hamburg
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,
Germany
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within the borough (''Bezirk'') of
Hamburg-Mitte
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. ...
. It is situated on the eponymous island between the Northern and Southern branches of the
Elbe
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river (''Norderelbe'' and ''Süderelbe''), together with the other quarters of Steinwerder,
Veddel and
Wilhelmsburg. It almost exclusively consists of facilities of the
port of Hamburg. 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
privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...
Klaus Störtebeker
"Nikolaus" Storzenbecher or "Klaus" Störtebeker (1360 – supposed 20 October 1401) was reputed to be leader of a group of privateers known as the Victual Brothers (german: Vitalienbrüder). The Victual Brothers ( la, victualia) were ...
was beheaded on the Grasbrook island in 1400 or 1401.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
the port of Hamburg and therefore Kleiner Grasbrook were targets of the
air raids of the so-called
Operation Gomorrah
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attac ...
. From mid-July 1944 until October 1945 the subcamp
Dessauer Ufer to the
Neuengamme concentration camp
Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in Northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, t ...
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
HafenCity 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
The State Criminal Police Office, or Landeskriminalamt (LKA) in German, is an independent law enforcement agency in all 16 German states that is directly subordinate to the state's ministry of the interior.
Missions
Investigations
LKAs superv ...
), source: statistical office Nord of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (2007)
Politics
These are the results of the
Hamburg state election:
Economy

Parts of the
port of Hamburg 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-HolsteinStatistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, official website
External links
Homepageof the unincorporated association ''Kleiner Grasbrook e.V.''.
{{Boroughs of Hamburg
Quarters of Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte