District Profile Moorburg & Altenwerder

Moorburg is a dominated by industrial areas but there are also some very idyllic spots inbetween paddocks and meadows. Traditional farmhouses are still existing, although seldom.

Moorburg is located South of the Harbour areas of Finkenwerder and Wilhelmsburg. Its Eastern part, the one that has access to the Elbe river arms, is occupied by harbor and logistic industry. The remaining space is rural farming land as well as space for Elbe sand and water. There are four roads, the Moorburger Elbdeich / Morrburger Schanze, the Waltershofer Straße and the Moorburger Hauptdeich. Residential houses are alined the more quiet Moorburger Kirchdeich (parallel to the Moorburger Hauptdeich) and the very Eastern part of the Moorburger Schanze around the restaurant water tower and a tiny boarding house offering rooms. Some further houses are scattered along the Moorburger Elbdeich / Morrburger Schanze. A beautiful church in the very East, nearly in harbor area, completes the village center.

The quiet has a problematic background: with the shipping business booming a few years ago the City of Hamburg pushed through a plan to enlarge the harbor area and as there is simply no space to the North, whilst the South is still rather rural, the choice of where to go seemed economically easy. The city bought most of the houses and residents moved away. The city rented the houses to socially deprived tenants which further weakened the village's situation as purchasing power decreased even further.