Altenwerder
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Altenwerder is a quarter in the Harburg borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 in northern Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. In the 1970s the city of Hamburg announced the formal dispossession of all property to build the Container Terminal Altenwerder
Container Terminal Altenwerder
The HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder in Hamburg, Germany currently is one of the most modern container terminals in the world, located in the Altenwerder quarter...

. The terminal started its operation in 2003. Altenwerder is a quarter almost without population. In 2007 the population was 2.

History

Around 1418 the settlement was new dyked, because of a treaty between the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Brunswick-Lüneburg
The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg , or more properly Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was an historical ducal state from the late Middle Ages until the late Early Modern era within the North-Western domains of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, in what is now northern Germany...

 and Johann Slamsdorp, the Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, both local lords to the settlement.

Geography

In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Altenwerder has a total area of 6.8 km². In the North is the quarter Waltershof of the borough Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Mitte located in the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Germany is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, covering mostly the urban center of the city of Hamburg. The quarters Hamburg-Altstadt and Neustadt are the historical origin of Hamburg...

, in the east is the quarter Wilhelmsburg. Alternwerder borders in the South to Moorburg and in the West to Francop.

Demographics

In 2006 in the quarter Altenwerder were living 2 people.

In 1999 there were 18 households out of which 11.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 83.3% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.44.

Population by year
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
76 74 67 90 105 421 410 319 324 130 52 37 23
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
1 12 0 n/a 0 0 2


In 2006 there were 54 criminal offences.

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