Harburg's lost pride: From the economic giant to the Hamburg district

Harburg's lost pride: From the economic giant to the Hamburg district

Hamburg, Deutschland - immigration stronghold Harburg: in the Harburg district of Hamburg, the immigration situation has reached a new highlight, as the latest figures show. Originally an independent, economically flourishing city south of the Elbe, Harburg's important harbor economy with the settlement of heavy industry celebrated great successes and once made Hamburg serious competition.

, however, the times changed dramatically when the NSDAP gained influence. Under the Großhamburg Act, Harburg was incorporated into the city of Hamburg overnight, a measure that was never revised and was supposed to shape Harburg's fate forever. After the end of the war, the Harburgers hoped in vain for the regulation of their independence.

forgotten history and new reality

The failed efforts of the 1990s to break away from Hamburg are now history, but the resulting population mix remains. Today Harburg is a multicultural focus in which the change in the social structure progresses with hardly any tangible speed.