Hamburg Nord in Schrotstrad-Fieber: The city cleaning cleans up!

Hamburg Nord in Schrotstrad-Fieber: The city cleaning cleans up!

This day, June 16, 2025, the Hamburg City Cleaning launched its annual campaign to remove scrap bikes. In the Hamburg-Nord district, the premiere was accompanied by environmental senator Katharina Fegebank (Greens). Together with the city cleaning team, she accompanied the start to draw attention to the important project that was primarily initiated by the district offices.

The campaign has the clear goal of getting parked along the streets along train stations and parking systems and often unused. These "bicycle corpses" not only stand for unused moments, but also take valuable place that benefits new cyclists. Therefore, the bicycles before they are removed are provided with red stickers. The stickers give the owners and owners a period of 14 days within which they can pick up their bikes. So there is enough time to react to the fate of your own bike.

The procedure

In Hamburg-Nord, 17 bicycles were successfully removed at Fuhlsbüttel-Nord underground station. The campaign is set up for two weeks and is gradually continued in other districts such as Altona, Eimsbüttel, Mitte and Wandsbek. The city cleaning estimates that more than 4,000 of these scrap bikes are removed from the cityscape annually.

• bicycles are marked with red notes.
• 14 days deadline for collection by the owners.
• 17 bicycles removed at Fuhlsbüttel-Nord underground station.
• Continuation in Altona, Eimsbüttel, Mitte and Wandsbek.
• About 20 percent of the distant bikes are repairable.

let's take a closer look at the following phase of the campaign: The bicycles freed from the waste that are in good shape are not simply disposed of, but are allowed to start a new life in the bicycle workshop of the recycling courtyard in Osdorf. Here you will be refreshed and finally find your way into the used goods resorts of "style break". This not only ensures sustainable use of resources, but also creates cheap offers for everyone who wants to get a used wheel.

More space for cyclists

City cleaning also pursues the goal of creating sufficient parking spaces for active cyclists in Hamburg. Because it often happens that the parking facilities of scrap bikes are taken, which makes the space for those who actually want to use the two-wheelers. To remedy this grievance, another district is freed from old bicycles weekly, the number of around 650 old bicycles has been reached by mid -November.

The commitment of the Hamburg City Cleaning and the support from the environmental senator are proof of the ongoing efforts to make the city not only cleaner but more bike -friendly. A good step in the right direction!