Moldauhafen Quarter: Where visitors are expected to park
The basemap shows Kleiner Grasbrook and the surrounding area. The planned Moldauhafen Quarter lies between the Norderelbe and Moldauhafen. No quarter boundary, garage locations or planned new buildings are shown.
A visit to friends, a tradesperson’s appointment, a delivery: even in a residential quarter designed for little car traffic, people will arrive by car or van. In the planned Moldauhafen Quarter, public and accessible parking spaces are therefore intended to be provided in shared garages rather than in the usual spaces along the street. Vertrag / Agreement, PDF S. / pp. 7–8
An agreement between the City of Hamburg and HafenCity Hamburg GmbH sets out how this provision is intended to be safeguarded. It was published in Hamburg’s Transparency Portal on 29 September 2026. Transparenzportal
Parking beneath the quarter
The mobility concept provides for three shared underground garages. Large parts of Grasbrook Boulevard are intended to remain largely free of moving and parked cars. Parking provision is planned at a maximum of 0.2 spaces per home. That planning ratio should not, however, be mistaken for a number of public visitor spaces specified in the agreement. Mobilitätskonzept / Mobility concept · Vertragsmuster / Template, PDF S. / p. 8
Keeping spaces available to the public
The agreement includes a template for future contracts with plot purchasers or holders of hereditary building rights. It provides for public and accessible spaces, in addition to the required car parking spaces, to remain available to visitors and service providers on a permanent basis. The obligations are also intended to pass to subsequent owners if the property changes hands. Vertragsmuster / Template, PDF S. / pp. 7–9
These safeguards are intended to be in place before the land transactions go ahead. Under the agreement, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH is to proceed with the notarisation of the relevant sales or building-right agreements only once the city has confirmed that the necessary contracts with the future purchasers or holders of building rights have been concluded. Hauptvertrag / Main agreement, PDF S. / p. 2
How many spaces? That remains open
The template does not yet give a specific number: the relevant field contains “XXX”. Nor does the supplied PDF establish parking charges or the exact access arrangements. Separate operating rules are intended to organise how the facilities are used, including arrangements for visitors and deliveries. The additional supporting annexes referred to in the template are not included in this PDF. Vertragsmuster / Template, PDF S. / pp. 7–8; vollständige Datei / complete file
The proposal forms part of the Kleiner Grasbrook 2 development plan, which envisages around 3,000 homes, 56 per cent publicly subsidised, and approximately 5,000 jobs. Public consultation ended on 2 September 2026, and the authority continues to describe the plan as a draft. The agreement is therefore not evidence that the garages have already been built or are available for use. Verfahrensübersicht / Procedure overview · Vertragsmuster / Template, PDF S. / pp. 9–10
Proposed update: The article will be expanded to cover the examined agreement and its attached contract template, and the orientation map will be replaced. The original publication date is retained.
Image credit: Cartography: ChatGPT for kleiner-grasbrook.net, 4 October 2026. Land and water: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Agency for Geoinformation and Surveying (LGV), ALKIS simplified, adapted; stored basemap grasbrook-alkis-2026-09-22-v1, retrieved on 22 September 2026 according to the original manifest. Administrative boundary: LGV, ALKIS administrative boundaries Hamburg, district 117; from the GeoJSON archive uploaded by Thomas on 4 October 2026, layer app_stadtteile_EPSG_25832.json. Both datasets: Data Licence Germany – Attribution 2.0. Upload and ZIP timestamps are not survey or effective dates. This is not a record of current construction progress.
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