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Encyclopedia > Stade (district)
Stade
Statistics
State: Lower Saxony
Capital: Stade
Adm. Region: Lüneburg
Area: 1266 km²
Inhabitants: 194,500 (2003)
pop. density: 154 inh./km²
Car identification: STD
Homepage: http://www.landkreis-stade.de
Map
Map of Lower Saxony highlighting the district Stade

Stade is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Harburg, Rotenburg and Cuxhaven, the Elbe River, and the city state of Hamburg.

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History

The district of Stade was established in 1932 by merging three smaller precursor districts.


Geography

The district is situated at the southern banks of the Elbe river, between the city of Hamburg and the river's mouth. The western border of the district is the Oste river, a narrow tributary of the Elbe. The land between the Oste and the town of Stade is traditionally called Kehdingen. East of Stade the landscape is called Altes Land (literally "Old Land"). It is characterised by thousands of fruit-trees.


Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:
  • a castle, symbolising the Grafenburg Castle
  • the key from the arms of Bremen
  • the heraldic horse of Lower Saxony

Towns and municipalities

Towns Samtgemeinden Free municipalities
  1. Buxtehude
  2. Stade
  1. Apensen
  2. Fredenbeck
  3. Harsefeld
  4. Himmelpforten
  5. Horneburg
  6. Lühe
  7. Nordkehdingen
  8. Oldendorf
  1. Drochtersen
  2. Jork

External links

  • Official website (http://www.landkreis-stade.de/) (German)


Rural and urban districts of Lower Saxony

Ammerland | Aurich | Bentheim | Braunschweig (Brunswick) | Celle | Cloppenburg | Cuxhaven | Delmenhorst | Diepholz | Emden | Emsland | Friesland | Gifhorn | Goslar | Göttingen | Hameln-Pyrmont (Hamelin-Pyrmont) | Harburg | Helmstedt | Hildesheim | Holzminden | Leer | Lüchow-Dannenberg | Lüneburg | Nienburg | Northeim | Oldenburg (town) | Oldenburg (district) | Osnabrück (town) | Osnabrück (district) | Osterholz | Osterode | Peine | Rotenburg | Salzgitter | Schaumburg | Soltau-Fallingbostel | Stade | Uelzen | Vechta | Verden | Wesermarsch | Wilhelmshaven | Wittmund | Wolfenbüttel | Wolfsburg

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Stade (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (150 words)
It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Harburg, Rotenburg and Cuxhaven, the Elbe River, and the city state of Hamburg.
The district is situated at the southern banks of the Elbe river, between the city of Hamburg and the river's mouth.
The western border of the district is the Oste river, a narrow tributary of the Elbe.
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