 Borgfelde is separated in two parts, called by the inhabitants "Oben Borgfelde" ("Upper Borgfelde") and "Unten Borgfelde" ("Lower Borgfelde"), by the former federal road of Bundesstraße 5 as well as by a Geest slope.Borgfelde faced major destruction during the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II.Today it is therefore dominated by brick apartment buildings built or reconstructed in the 1950s and 60s.