It's bordered into the north, separated with the customs channel to Hamburg's metropolis centre, west and south because of the Elbe, and to the east, bounded because of the upper harbour, Rothenburgsort. The district is full of rivers and streams and is also surrounded by channels, and has a

The cosmopolitan Hamburg suffered the loss of its independence underneath the Nazi regime (Whilst not as much as Lübeck, whom Hitler disliked much he experienced its "Free and Hanseatic" standing revoked), but consequently its territory was expanded to incorporate between Some others