Eilbek
Sign in to saveEilbek (; former Eilbeck) is a quarter of the German city of Hamburg and part of the Wandsbek borough. It originated as a small village on the outskirts of Hamburg and was eventually incorporated when the city expanded. In 2020 the population was 22,235.
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- German place.name
- Eilbek
- German place.image_photo
- Hh-jacobipark.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Jacobipark recreation area
- German place.type
- Quarter
- German place.City
- Hamburg
- German place.state
- Hamburg
- German place.borough
- Wandsbek
- German place.area
- 1.7
- German place.area_code
- 040
- German place.licence
- HH
- German place.plantext
- Location of Eilbek quarter of Hamburg
- German place.image_plan
- HH-eilbeck-quarter.jpg
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Eilbek (; former Eilbeck) is a quarter of the German city of Hamburg and part of the Wandsbek borough. It originated as a small village on the outskirts of Hamburg and was eventually incorporated when the city expanded. In 2020 the population was 22,235.
==Etymology== The village was named after the small Wandse river, here named Eilbek. This is usually regarded as derived from the old German for "rushing stream", eile meaning to hurry or rush and Beck meaning river or stream. However other sources interpret the first element, Ylen or Ilen, as leech (German Egel), because in northern Germany the language is Low German.