Schashagen is a municipality in the district of
Ostholstein
Ostholstein (; ) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of Stormarn, Segeberg and Plön, the Baltic Sea and the city of Lübeck. Geographically, the district covers the vas ...
, 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
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 the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
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Location
Schashagen is located about 4 km northeast of Neustadt in Holstein on the Baltic Sea. West of the Federal Highway 1 runs from Lübeck in the direction of Fehmarn, east of the federal highway 501 Neustadt in the direction of Fehmarn.
History
The Gutsbezirk Brodau was built in 1526 by Heinrich Rantzau on Helmstorf.
[Henning von Rumor: Schlösser und Herrenhäuser in Ostholstein. Verlag Weidlich/Flechsig Würzburg 1989, S. 386.] Schashagen became official district in 1970.
References
Ostholstein
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