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26-483: On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Jehovah's Witnesses center on Deelböge Street, killing seven people including the gunman and injuring eight others. In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Alsterdorf has a total area of 3.1 km (1 sq mi). The river Alster floating from Northeast to Southwest is the border to the Groß Borstel quarter in

52-512: A mass shooting occurred at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Alsterdorf quarter, Hamburg , Germany. The shooter, identified as Philipp Fusz, entered the building during a service and opened fire, killing six adults and an unborn child, and injuring eight others. Fusz, a former Jehovah's Witness, killed himself minutes later. He had no criminal record and was not a known extremist. Police received an anonymous letter indicating he

78-535: A gun permit and permission to keep his P30. In January 2023, police had received an anonymous letter saying he had "particular anger against religious members or against the Jehovah's Witnesses and his former employer", but after interviewing him on 7 February, found no legal reason to cancel the permit or confiscate the gun. According to Arnold Keller, the spokesperson for the Hamburg prosecutor's office, considering

104-525: A service at the time of the shooting, while others were watching online. The gunman fired a total of 135 rounds. Police responded to emergency calls and arrived at the scene at 9:08. A specialized armed unit from the Alsterdorf police station that was in the area at the time also arrived and forced entry into the three-story building at 9:09. They encountered the gunman and pursued him upstairs, where he killed himself. A neighbor captured some footage of

130-465: Is considered the oldest written reference of any German city. So far no archaeological evidence could be found that this Celtic settlement really existed. In 15 BC Roman troops led by Nero Claudius Drusus and his brother Tiberius conquered and destroyed the existing Celtic settlement. In the following years the city, whose name was Latinized as Cambodunum , was rebuilt on a classical Roman city plan with baths, forum and temples. Initially in wood,

156-632: Is the largest town of Allgäu , in Swabia , Bavaria , Germany . The population was about 68,000 in 2016. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts , but was later taken over by the Romans , who called the town Cambodunum . Kempten is the oldest urban settlement (town) in Germany. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions in 50 BC a town of the Celtic Estiones named Kambodunon . This

182-689: The A 7 autobahn ( Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen ). Bundesstraßen B 12 (partly as A 980 autobahn), B 19 and B 309 also intersect in Kempten. The city is on the Buchloe–Lindau railway , opened as part of the Ludwig South-North Railway in 1852, and Kempten station currently boasts good InterCity and EuroCity rail connections. The city bus system is operated by Kemptener Verkehrsbetriebe, which operates over 20 lines. The Kempten University of Applied Sciences started in

208-650: The Abbey of Saint Gall , Magnus von Füssen and Theodor. This new monastery's first abbot was one Audogar. Through the financial and lobbyist support of Charlemagne ’s wife Hildegard , an Allemannic princess, the monastery came to be one of the most privileged of the Frankish Empire . After the abbey had several times been ravaged by the Magyars , the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg , Ulrich of Augsburg , who

234-791: The Archdiocese of Hamburg , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany and the Working Group of Christian Churches in Hamburg held an ecumenical memorial service in the main Protestant Church of Saint Peter . Representatives of Jehovah's Witnesses supported the commemoration but did not take part themselves. Kempten Kempten ( German: [ˈkɛmptn̩] ; Swabian : Kempte [ˈkɛmptə] )

260-766: The Hamburg state election : Until the opening of O2 World Hamburg in 2002, the Alsterdorfer Sporthalle was the largest indoor sports venue in Hamburg, serving also as a hall for concerts, trade fairs and others. Alsterdorf is serviced by the rapid transit system of the underground railway . According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter were 4,847 private cars registered (377 cars/1000 people). [REDACTED] Media related to Alsterdorf at Wikimedia Commons 2023 Hamburg shooting On 9 March 2023,

286-615: The Jehovah's Witnesses expressed their "deep sorrow" about the fatal shooting. A funeral service was held on 25 March 2023 and was attended by up to 4,000 members of the faith community, including 50 Hamburg congretioners, relatives and survivors, as well as representatives of the Jehovah's Witness World Headquarters and the Central Europe branch. Representatives from politics and the authorities, including Mayor Peter Tschentscher, had also been invited. The Catholic and Protestant churches expressed their sympathy. On 19 March 2023,

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312-531: The Jehovah's Witnesses, had no criminal record, and was not known as an extremist. In 2022, he self-published a book called The Truth About God, Jesus Christ and Satan: A New Reflected View of Epochal Dimensions . In it, he claims to have had prophetic dreams , to have visited hell for three years and to have had an " angelic audience" and "angelic fans". It interpreted the Russian invasion of Ukraine as God's cleansing of Ukrainian sex workers . Fusz held

338-833: The West. In the South Alsterdorf borders to Winterhude quarter. In the East is the Ohlsdorf quarter. Parts of the large Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Ohlsdorfer Friedhof (in German) ) belongs to the quarter Alsterdorf. 2006 there were 12,955 people living in Alsterdorf. The population density was 4,232/km (10,961/sq mi). 14.2% were children under the age of 18, and 20.2% were 65 years of age or older. 11.6% were resident aliens. 467 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999 there were 6,508 households, out of which 15.3% had children under

364-403: The age of 18 living with them and 54.4% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.77. Population by year In 2006 there were 1,283 criminal offences (99 crimes per 1,000 people). There were 1 elementary school and 2 secondary schools in the quarter Alsterdorf and 30 physicians in private practice and 5 pharmacies. These are the results of Alsterdorf in

390-453: The baby's mother, who was seven months pregnant. All six casualties were German , and the eight injured were six Germans, one Ugandan and one Ukrainian . The suspect was later identified as Philipp Fusz, a single man aged 35. On his website, Fusz described himself as a business consultant who grew up in a "strict evangelical household" in Kempten , Bavaria . He was a former member of

416-442: The city was later rebuilt in stone after a devastating fire that destroyed almost the entire city in the year 69 AD. The city possibly served as provincial capital of Raetia during the first century before Augsburg took over this role. Extensive archaeological excavations at the end of the 19th century and again during the 1950s at what were then the outskirts of Kempten unearthed the extensive structural foundations. The city

442-644: The end of the Thirty Years' War . During the Napoleonic Wars the Dukedom-Abbey and Imperial City came under Bavarian rule (1802–03). Finally, in 1819, the two rival cities were united into a single communal entity. The city was the location of two subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp during World War II , each with about 700 inmates. Kempten is well connected with the region through

468-628: The imperial forces and the Swedish troops respectively. In 1652 Roman Giel of Gielsberg, the Abbot of Kempten , commissioned the architects Michael Beer and Johann Serro from Graubünden to build St. Lorenz Basilica as a new church to serve the parish and monastery, including a representative residence for the Duke-Abbots. This is acknowledged as the first large church built in Germany after

494-579: The last property rights held by the abbots in the Imperial City were sold in the so-called "Great Purchase", marking the start of the co-existence of two independent cities next to each other, each bearing the same name. More conflict arose in 1527 after the Imperial City converted to Protestantism in direct opposition to the Catholic monastery (and Free City). During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1632–33), both cities were destroyed by

520-499: The past history of Philipp F. and the Jehovah's Witnesses, it is not possible to completely rule out the possibility that the perpetrator acted out of animosity towards this particular community. However, it is unclear if this was the definitive motive for the crime. On the other hand, a political reason has been ruled out by officials. On the advice of the security authorities, the Hamburg congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses began conducting their services digitally. On their website,

546-435: The shooting, which shows an individual entering the building through a window, followed by gunshots. The figure then exits the building and is seen in the courtyard before firing more shots through a first-floor window. After the shots are fired, the lights are turned off. The casualties included four men and two women, aged 33 to 60, as well as an unborn baby. Eight people were injured, four critically. The injured include

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572-452: The winter semester of 1978–79 with 89 students and since then expanded and now accommodates more than 2800 students in eight degree courses: There are also three college preparatory schools, called Gymnasium, (Allgäu-Gymnasium, Hildegardis-Gymnasium, Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium) offering secondary education to the entire region of the Allgäu. The association football team FC Kempten play at

598-632: Was again destroyed in 233 AD by the Alemanni , a Suebic tribe. The original site of Cambodunum was then abandoned and the settlement moved to a strategically safer location on the Burghalde hill overlooking the river Iller . In the middle of the 5th century the last Roman troops had left the area and the city was entirely taken over by the Alemanni. After the Romans abandoned the settlement, it

624-700: Was also Abbot of Kempten , began the rebuilding of both the monastery and the city in 941. In 1213, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots members of the Reichstag and granted the Abbot of Kempten the right to bear the title of Duke. However in 1289, King Rudolf I of Germany also granted special privileges to the urban settlement in the river valley, making it the Free Imperial City of Kempten . In 1525

650-503: Was angry at Witnesses and his former employer, which may help them determine a motive. On 9 March 2023, at around 9:00 p.m., a woman sitting in her car outside the Kingdom Hall on Deelbögestrasse was fired upon by a lone gunman wielding a Heckler & Koch P30 semi-automatic handgun. The woman escaped unharmed. The gunman then fired 10 more rounds through a window of the hall before entering. 36 people were physically attending

676-539: Was moved from the hill down to the plains located next to the river Iller. In written sources, the town appears as Cambidano . Being still predominantly Alemannic, the town once more was destroyed by the Franks in 683 as a consequence of the city's support of an uprising against the Frankish kingdom. Around 700 a monastery — Kempten Abbey — was built, the first in the Allgäu region, founded by two Benedictine monks from

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