Settlement in the area began, as a large workers quarter had to be demolished prior to the construction of the
Speicherstadt in 1883. The village of
Barmbeck itself had been under Hamburg administration since 1830, and it became a suburb of Hamburg in 1894. but also had industrial structures itself. In 1867 a first horse track was established along the street of
Hamburger Straße, in 1890 a depot of it opened at
Mesterkamp (today a bus depot). In 1907, the
Hamburg-Altonaer Stadt- und Vorortbahn (Hamburg - Altona urban and suburban railway, now incorporated into
Hamburg S-Bahn) with the Barmbeck station, now
Barmbek station located in Barmbek-Nord, started operation. In 1912, the
Hamburger Hochbahn started operating the first part of the
Hamburg U-Bahn circle line from Barmbek station to the
central station. With the stations of
Dehnhaide,
Hamburger Straße and
Mundsburg the area was connected to the inner city of Hamburg. The center of Barmbek-Süd was located north of Mundsburg station. Barmbek-Süd had faced major destruction during the
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II. It was mainly rebuilt in the 1950s, including parks and apartment buildings with the typical brick architecture. In 1970 the major mall of
Einkaufszentrum Hamburger Straße (today
Shopping-Center Hamburger Meile) opened, then considered as the largest mall within a city in Germany. In the 1990s the office area of
Alster-City was built on the site of the former gasworks. ==Politics==