Kleiner Grasbrook: Moldauhafen

Moldauhafen marks a more infrastructure- and work-oriented part of Kleiner Grasbrook. Larger plots, service access, commercial activity and the practical movement of goods or workers matter more here than in the district’s quieter residential streets. Describing the area separately therefore highlights the working-city character and the sharper transitions between employment uses, transport corridors and nearby housing. At the same time, the planned Grasbrook development around Moldauhafen is intended to introduce housing, workplaces, parks and a new rapid-transit connection while retaining active harbour functions elsewhere. This tension defines the district. Kleiner Grasbrook is special because it is both an authentic production landscape and one of Hamburg’s largest future urban projects, where industrial heritage, global logistics and new waterfront neighbourhoods must be negotiated within the same island.