Since 1800, distinguished and rich Hamburg citizens built the mansions at the bank of the Außenalster lake, to move from the city to a better surrounding area.

[2] From 1946 to 1948, war crime trials were held by the British Armed Forces in the Curiohaus,[3] an office building which is named after Johann Carl Daniel Curio.

Among others, subject of the Curiohaus processes were Fritz Knoechlein for the Le Paradis massacre, the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski from the Neuengamme concentration camp, Hamburg's famous football player Otto Harder (sentenced to 15 years imprisonment)[4] and the company Tesch & Stabenow which sold Zyklon B.

The southern boundaries of Rotherbaum to the quarters Neustadt, St. Pauli and Sternschanze are formed by the railway tracks of the city train.

503 people were registered as unemployed and 4,866 were employees subject to social insurance contributions.

In Rotherbaum were 16 day-care centers for children, 142 physicians in private practice and 9 pharmacies.

[9] Rotherbaum is serviced by the rapid transit system of the city train with the stations Hamburg Dammtor, located in the homonymous place.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter Rotherbaum were 5,446 private cars registered (324 cars/1000 people).