Marschacht is a municipality in the district of
Harburg, in
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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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 .
References
Harburg (district)
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