has a total area of . Today's quarter is the old city Bergedorf, located on the river Bille, a right tributary of the Elbe. Demographics In 2006, 118,942 people were living in Bergedorf borough. The population density was . 19.3% were children under the age of 18, and 18.2% were 65 years of age or older. 9.6% were immigrants. 6,027 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999 there were 51,752 households and 34.6% of all households were made up of individuals. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), there were 48,003 private cars registered (406 cars/1000 people) in the borough of Bergedorf. There were 22 elementary schools, 16 secondary schools, 184 physicians in private practice, and 23 pharmacies in the borough of Bergedorf. These numbers include the Bergedorf quarter. Assembly of the borough The Bezirksversammlung is elected as representatives of the citizens, simultaneously with elections to the European Parliament. It consists of 45 representatives. Elections |- ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Parties ! % ! ± ! Seats |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | 26.4 | 12.9 | style="text-align:center;" | 12 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | 24.3 | 4.2 | style="text-align:center;" | 11 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Alliance 90/The Greens | 21.9 | 9.6 | style="text-align:center;" | 10 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | The Left | 10.5 | 1.3 | style="text-align:center;" | 5 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Alternative for Germany | 8.5 | 4.0 | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | 5.5 | 3.3 | style="text-align:center;" | 3 |- | style="background-color:#0085FF" | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Voters | 2.9 | 2.9 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 |- ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Total ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| ! style="text-align:center;" | 45 |} Postage stamps The Bi-Urban Condominium (see above), or Bergedorf, respectively, its capital and the seat of its postal service Beiderstädtische Post (Bi-Urban Mail), founded on 1 April 1847, is of note to philatelists because it issued its own postage stamps between 1861 and 1867. According to the census of March 1863 the Bi-Urban Condominium had a population of 12,468 souls, of which 2,957 lived in Bergedorf city (the rest lived in the other five municipalities of the condominium), making it by far the German territory with the smallest population to issue stamps. The issue