Geesthacht
Geesthacht () is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, south-east of Hamburg on the right bank of the River Elbe. Dassendorf lies to the north.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- SSalv.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Church in Geesthacht
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Geesthacht COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Geesthacht in RZ.svg
- German location.state
- Schleswig-Holstein
- German location.district
- Lauenburg
- German location.elevation
- 5
- German location.area
- 33.25
- German location.postal_code
- 21498–21502
- German location.area_code
- 04152
- German location.licence
- RZ
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- History
- Politics
- Economics and transportation
- State institutions
- Leisure and sports sites
- Theatre
- Museums
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- Trivia
- References
- Literature
- External links
Geesthacht () is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, south-east of Hamburg on the right bank of the River Elbe. Dassendorf lies to the north.
==History== A church was built in what is today Geesthacht around the year 800. The town was first mentioned in 1216 as Hachede, then a part of the Duchy of Saxony. A change in the course of the Elbe cut the settlement into two: Geesthacht and Marschacht (in today's Lower Saxony). In 1296, Geesthacht became part of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, partitioned from Saxony. Duke Eric III pawned Geesthacht - as part of the Herrschaft of Bergedorf - to the Free City of Lübeck in 1370. In 1401, Duke Eric IV retook the pawned area by force. Geesthacht was ceded as part of a condominium to the Hanseatic cities Hamburg and Lübeck by the Peace of Perleberg in 1420.