Vierlande

Its name goes back to the year 1556 and refers to the four church parishes of Curslack, Kirchwerder, Neuengamme and Altengamme which are identical with their modern-day quarters.

The populace of the Vierlande were free farmers, but sovereignty over the whole region frequently changed hands.

From the 12th century it belonged to the dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg who, due to a shortage of money, enfeoffed it to the free Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck.

Part of Kirchwerder remained, however, an exclave of the Prussian District of Harburg until the enactment of the Greater Hamburg Act in 1938.

The Rieck-Haus [de] is built in the style of a Fachhallenhaus and is an open-air museum in Curslack.