Place:Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Name
Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Alternate names
Rendsborg-Egernførde     (Wikipedia)
Rendsburg-Eckernforde
Type
District
Located in
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Contained Places

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Achterwehr
Bordesholm
Eckernförde
Rendsburg
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Rendsburg-Eckernförde is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the city of Kiel, the district of Plön, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Segeberg, Steinburg, Dithmarschen and Schleswig-Flensburg, and the Baltic Sea.

History

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In 1867 the Prussian administration established twenty districts in its province of Schleswig-Holstein, among them the districts of Rendsburg and Eckernförde. The present district was established in 1970 by merging the former districts. Rendsburg was part of Denmark till the Prussian-Danish war. Prussia won and Rendsburg became part of it. In the years following Prussia became part of Germany and Rendsburg also.

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