Gudow-Sterley is a former ''
Amt
Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...
'' ("collective municipality") in the
district of Lauenburg, in
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated approximately 16 km south of
Ratzeburg
Ratzeburg (; Low German: ''Ratzborg'') is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is surrounded by Ratzeburger See, four lakes—the resulting isthmuses between the lakes form the access lanes to the town. Ratzeburg is the capital of the distri ...
, and 35 km south of
Lübeck
Lübeck (; or ; Latin: ), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Lübeck (), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic Sea, Baltic coast and the second-larg ...
. Its seat was in Gudow.
The ''Amt'' Gudow-Sterley consisted until 2006 of the following municipalities (population in 2005 in brackets):
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Besenthal (75)
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Brunsmark (153)
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Göttin
Göttin is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and t ...
(55)
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Grambek (393)
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Gudow
Gudow is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
History
Since 1470 the Bülow family owns the estate and manor house of Gudow, to this day.
Between 1982 and 1990 Gudow served as West German inner German bor ...
* (1,652)
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Hollenbek (450)
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Horst (256)
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Klein Zecher (248)
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Langenlehsten
Langenlehsten is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the nort ...
(156)
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Lehmrade (463)
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Salem (560)
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Seedorf (529)
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Sterley (971)
Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein
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