Marschacht is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in

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. It completes the ''Samtgemeinde Elbmarsch'' with ''Tespe'' and ''Drage''. ''Marschacht'' is only a few kilometres far away from ''Geesthacht''. 1216: First documentary mention of the settlement as Hachede, then a part of Saxony. A change in the course of the Elbe cuts the settlement into two: Geesthacht (in Schleswig-Holstein) and Marschacht .

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