Bergedorf is a quarter (Stadtteil) in the homonymous

Bergedorf

Bergedorf is the largest of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany and a quarter within this borough. In 2006 the population of the borough was 118,942.-History:...

 borough (Bezirk) 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

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. In 2006, the population was 41,019.

History

The quarter was first mentioned in 1162. The today's quarter is the old city Bergedorf and located on the river Bille

Bille

The river Bille is a small, slow-flowing river in Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, a right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is near Linau, north of the Hahnheide forest. It then flows south of Trittau, representing the border between Stormarn and Lauenburg, continues south of Reinbek and reaches the...

, a right tributary of the Elbe

Elbe

The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia , then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg...

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Geography

Bergedorf, situated in the south-eastern side 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...

, borders with the quarters of Lohbrügge

Lohbrügge

Lohbrügge is a quarter in the Bergedorf borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2006, the population was 38,343.-Geography:...

, Billwerder, Allermöhe

Allermöhe

Allermöhe is a quarter in the borough Bergedorf of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. The quarter consists of a rural area and the old settlement Allermöhe, on the other hand the new neighbourhood Neu-Allermöhe West, which is a development zone of several agencies of...

, Curslack and Altengamme

Altengamme

Altengamme located in the Bergedorf borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany, is a rural quarter on the right bank of the Elbe river. Altengamme is the most eastern part of Hamburg. In 2009 the population was 2,192....

; and with the district of Herzogtum Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

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In 2006, the quarter Bergedorf has an area of 11.3 km² (4 sq mi).

Demographics

In 2006 in the quarter Bergedorf were living 40,678 people. The population density was 3587 PD/km². 19% were children under the age of 18, and 16.2% were 65 years of age or older. 9.9% were immigrants. 2,479 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999 there were 19,603 households and 38% of all households were made up of individuals.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter Bergedorf were 15.104 private cars registered (372 cars/1000 people).

There were 8 elementary schools and 5 secondary schools in the quarter Bergedorf and 112 physicians in private practice and 12 pharmacies.

Unlike the mere quarters of Hamburg, Bergedorf still has its own town hall in being.

Notable present or former residents

• Johann Adolph Hasse
  Johann Adolph Hasse
  Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music...
  
  
• Heinrich Rathmann
• Friedrich Chrysander
  Friedrich Chrysander
  Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander was a German music historian and critic, whose edition of the works of George Frideric Handel and authoritative writings on many other composers established him as a pioneer of 19th-century musicology.Born at Lübtheen, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Chrysander was the son...
  
  
• Ida Boy-Ed
• Ferdinand Pfohl
  Ferdinand Pfohl
  Ferdinand Pfohl , was a German music critic, music writer and composer....
  
  
• Bernhard Schmidt
  Bernhard Schmidt
  Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt was a German optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time...
  
  
• Anton Aloys Timpe
• Kurt A. Körber
  Kurt A. Körber
  Kurt A. Körber was a German founder and businessman, who founded the Hauni Maschinenbau AG, an internationally leading company for the production of machines for the tobacco industry and the Körber Foundation , both based in Hamburg, Germany...
  
  
• Frank Appel
  Frank Appel
  Frank Appel has been Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post since February 18, 2008. His present appointment is through October 2012. He has been Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG since November 1, 2002....
  
  
• Jörg Pilawa
  Jörg Pilawa
  Jörg Pilawa is a German television presenter.-Life:Pilawa studied after his school at Gymnasium Hummelsbüttel first medicine and then history, but he did not finish his university studies. From 1987 to 1994 Pilawa worked for Radio Schleswig-Holstein...
  
  

External links

Bergedorf official site

• Locator map of Bergedorf in Hamburg (de.wp)