Finkenwerder

Finkenwerder (; Low German: Finkwarder, Finkenwarder or - wärder; German: Finkeninsel; translation: Island of finches) is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the borough Hamburg-Mitte. It is the location of the Hamburg Airbus plant and its airport. In 2016 the population was 11,668. Geography According to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Finkenwerder has a total area of 19.3 km2. Parts of the quarter are covered by the port of Hamburg. The western and northern border of the quarter are the Elbe river, across it lies the borough of Altona in the north. To the east Finkenwerder is bordered by the Köhlfleet channel, across it lies Waltershof, with which Finkenwerder also shares a small land border in the south-east. To the south and south-west Finkenwerders border runs along the old southern Elbe, across from it lie the quarters of Francop and Neuenfelde, the latter of which Finkenwerder shares another small land border with. A small officially unnamed and uninhabited island, which is locally referred to as Schweinesand, is officially a part of Finkenwerder and represents its western-most point.