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Province: Schleswig-Holstein
District: Stormarn
area: 11,22 km²
people: 16.093 (31. December 2004)
people in one km²: 1.434
height: 25 m above sea level
Postal code: D-21509
Telephone number begin: 040
position on earth: 53° 32' 26" N

10° 12' 41" E

Car registration plate symbol: OD
Community Identification Number: 01 0 62 018
Address of the
Government:
Markt 1
D-21509 Glinde
official Webpage: www.glinde.de
Politics
Bürgermeister: Rainhard Zug

Glinde is a town in the province of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, about 20 km away from Hamburg.

History

The name Glinde is found in a document from March 25 1229 for the first time. In the document, Earl Adolf IV. of Schauenburg and Holstein gave the village to a Cistercian convent. (The convent moved to today's town of Reinbek.) The King of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Frederick I of Denmark, got all the convent had during the Protestant Reformation. In 1544 his son Christian III gave a part of it to each of his brothers. The owner changed again several times.

In 1948, the town administration of Glinde, Oststeinbek, Havighorst and Schönningstedt were brought together to the Amt Glinde. Schönningstedt left that combination in 1949 and Havighorst left it in 1973. So Glinde und Oststeinbek became independent villages.

On June 24, 1979, (on the 750th anniversary of the village), Glinde became a town.

Politics

Partnerships with other towns

  • Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (near Nantes in the west French Département Loire-Atlantique)
  • Kaposvár (Main town from the province of Somogy south of Lake Balaton in Hungary).

Population

Literature

  • Wolfgang Bachhofer: Glinde. 1929 bis 1979. Eine junge Stadt stellt sich vor. Glinde 1979.
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