Billstedt
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Billstedt is a quarter in 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 eastern part 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...

, 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 2007, the population was 68,936, it was the second-most populous quarter.

History

Schifbeck, Öjendorff, Steinbeck and Schlem are the old settlements.

Geography

In 2006, according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Billstedt quarter had a total area of 17 km². To the north is the Jenfeld quarter of the Wandsbek
Wandsbek
Wandsbek is the second-largest of seven boroughs that make up the city of Hamburg, Germany. The name of the district is derived from the river Wandse which passes here. The quarter Wandsbek, which is the former independent city, is urban and, with the quarters Eilbek and Marienthal part of the...

 borough. The municipalities Barsbüttel
Barsbüttel
Barsbüttel is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated right east of Hamburg.Since 1973 the township consists of four parts: Barsbüttel , Willinghusen, Stemwarde and Stellau.-Twin towns:...

 and Oststeinbek
Oststeinbek
Oststeinbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 13 kilometres east of the center of Hamburg, directly on the border between Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein....

 in the German state Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

 are to the east. To the west are the quarters Horn
Horn, Hamburg
Horn is a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany. In 2007 the population was 36,890.-History:During World War II the Hamburg and therefore Horn were targets of the air raids of the so called Operation Gomorrah....

 and Billbrook, to the south is the 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:...

 quarter of the Bergedorf
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.

Demographics

In 2007, the population of the Billstedt quarter was 68,936. The population density was 4056 PD/sqkm. 19.7% were children under the age of 18, and 17.3% were 65 years of age or older. 22.5% were immigrants. 5,274 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999, there were 32,336 households, and 39% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.14.

Population by year
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
68,068 68,838 69,435 69,978 69,899 69,938 69,676 69,651 69,588 68,763 69,014 68,209 68,279
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
68,256 68,064 68,461 68,512 68,119 68,115 68,573 68,936


In 2007 there were 9,626 criminal offences (140/1000 people).

Education

In 2006, there were 10 elementary schools and 6 secondary schools in the Billstedt quarter with 3,894 pupils.

Health systems

In 2007, there were 36 day-care centers for children, 84 physicians in private practices and 12 pharmacies.

Transportation

The motorway Bundesautobahn 1 and the road Bundesstrasse 5 run through the quarter. Billstedt is serviced by the rapid transit
Rapid transit
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 system of the underground railway
Hamburg U-Bahn
The Hamburg U-Bahn is a rapid transit system serving the cities of Hamburg, Norderstedt and Ahrensburg in Germany. Although technically an underground, most of the system's track length is above ground. The network is interconnected with the city's S-Bahn system, which also has underground...

with the several stations for the line U3.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter Billstedt were 19,998 private cars registered (290 cars/1000 people) in 2007 and 258 traffic accidents.
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