An old Danish phrase for stating that something is a fraud / unreliable is to claim that "det gælder ad Wandsbek[/Vandsbæk] til" (i.e. "this is valid in Wandsbeck.").

Wandsbek was one of the three locations in the Danish monarchy where the first lottery drew its numbers, and this expression dates from the early years of this lottery's life where a number of people tried to claim prizes in Copenhagen with tickets from Wandsbeck.

The southern border to the quarter Marienthal is mostly the railway tracks of the city train.

[5] According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter of Wandsbek 11,771 private cars were registered (365 cars/1000 people).

An emergency ambulance with a physician and a rescue helicopter are stationed at the hospital.

[6] From 1771 to 1775, the German poet Matthias Claudius edited the highly reputed literary journal Wandsbecker Bote in Wandsbek.