Kellinghusen is an ''

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'' ("collective municipality") in the district of

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. Its seat is in Kellinghusen and in the ''Amt'' is situated the lesser-populated settlement of the nation, Wiedenborstel.

History

Before 1 January 2008, when it was joined by the (previously ''Amt''-free) town Kellinghusen and the municipalities Hohenlockstedt and Lockstedt from the former ''Amt'' Hohenlockstedt, it was named Kellinghusen-Land.

Subdivision

The ''Amt'' Kellinghusen consists of the following municipalities (population in 2005 between brackets): #

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(2,194) # Fitzbek (386) # Hennstedt (589) # Hingstheide (68) # Hohenlockstedt (6,175) #

Kellinghusen Kellinghusen () is a town in the district of Steinburg in the ''Bundesland'' of Schleswig-Holstein. Geography Kellinghusen is located northeast of Itzehoe on both sides of the Stör River. The federal highway Bundesstraße 206 passes Kellinghu ...

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(173) # Mühlenbarbek (335) # Oeschebüttel (204) # Poyenberg (410) # Quarnstedt (437) # Rade (95) #

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(383) # Sarlhusen (509) # Störkathen (108) # Wiedenborstel (5) # Willenscharen (158) #

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References

External links

Amt Kellinghausen official site
{{Authority control Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein