By Bernadette Olderdissen 05. March 2021 – 14:00
Traditional wooden boat on the Dove-Elbe, a tributary of the great river.
Photo: Bernadette Olderdissen
Germany’s largest flower and vegetable growing areas are located in the southeast of the Hanseatic city. Here you meet farmers instead of bartenders and inventive four-country people with money and tradition.
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By Bernadette Olderdissen
March 5th, 2021 – 2:00 p.m.
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Hamburg – drunk people who bump into each other on the Reeperbahn after bar-hopping; Launch owners competing for customers on the jetties; or neck pain from looking up from An-der-Elphi – none of that exists in the Vier- und Marschlanden. In the east of Hamburg, kilometers of dykes run along the Elbe, greenhouses are lined up and farmers work their fields. If the vegetables in Hamburg’s markets do not come from the Altes Land, they come from the Vier- und Marschlanden. A region that expands all notions of Hamburg as travel honors the horizon and its inhabitants, some of which are centuries old.
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