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Geesthacht
Sign in to saveGeesthacht () 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
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 01 0 53 032
- German location.website
- www.geesthacht.de
- German location.mayor
- Olaf Schulze
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Stadt Geesthacht
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Geesthacht
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Hamburg
- Population
- 32763
- Area
- 33.25
- Elevation
- 27
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Elbe
- Shares border with
- Kröppelshagen-Fahrendorf
- Official website
- www.geesthacht.de
- Image
- Museum Geesthacht.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04152
- Licence plate code
- RZ
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- twinned administrative body
- Plaisir
- Commons category
- Geesthacht
- postal code
- 21502
- short name
- Gt
- native label
- Geesthacht
- P8168
- Artur Berger
- web feed URL
- www.geesthacht.de/media/rss/Aktuelles.xml
- hashtag
- Geesthacht
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geesthacht” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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