Bargteheide (

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: ''Bartheil'') is a town in the district of Stormarn,

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state,

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. It is situated between the cities of

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and

Bad Oldesloe Bad Oldesloe () is a town located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is the capital of the district of Stormarn. The area has been inhabited since Mesolithic times. The flint tools found here from that era (6000–4500 BC) ar ...

, on the

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rail line and is part of the

Hamburg Metropolitan Region The Hamburg Metropolitan Region () is a metropolitan region centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts () in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts () in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two ...

. The population of Bargteheide was 16,045 at the end of 2017.

Mayors

* 1946–1957: Julius Gerken * 1957–1962: Enno Wilkens * 1962–1971: Karl Eduard Claussen ( CDU) * 1971–1984: Erich Reincke * 1985–1996: Frank Pries * 1996–2008: Werner Mitsch * 2008–2016: Henning Görtz (CDU) * since 2016: Birte Kruse-Gobrecht (independent)

Population development

*1840: c. 1,000 *1905: 1,980 *1914: 2,300 *1949: 6,900 *1970: 7,374 *2002: 13,820 *2008: 14,902 *2009: 15,306 *2012: 15,528 *2013: 16,000 *2015: 16,292

Notable people

Luise Zietz Luise Catharina Amalie Zietz (née: Körner) (1865–1922) was a German socialist and feminist. She was the first woman to occupy a leading party post in Germany. She also helped bring the socialist women's movement into the Social Democratic Pa ...

(1865–1922), socialist politician *

Katharina Fegebank Katharina Fegebank (born 27 February 1977) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens, who has served as Second Mayor of Hamburg since 2015. She has been serving as Senator for the Environment, Climate Action, Energy and Agricultu ...

(born 1977), German politician (The Greens) *

David Kross David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film ''Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge'' and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his school work. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg ...

(born 1990), German actor * Axel Fischer (born 1981), German pop singer and actor *

Matti Steinmann Matti Steinmann (born 8 January 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SV Drochtersen/Assel in the Regionalliga Nord. Club career Hamburger SV Steinmann is a youth exponent from Hamburger SV. He made his Bundes ...

(born 1995), Finnish-German footballer

International relations

Bargteheide is twinned with: *

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References

External links

*http://www.bargteheide.de/ Stormarn (district) {{Stormarn-geo-stub