Place:Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Name
Stormarn
Type
District
Located in
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Contained Places

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District
Reinbek
Inhabited place
Ahrensburg
Bad Oldesloe
Bargteheide
Glinde
Reinbek
Trittau
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Stormarn is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Segeberg and Ostholstein, the city of Lübeck, the district of Lauenburg, and the city state of Hamburg.

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History

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The name Stormarn may be derived from "storm", hence meaning "stormy land". In medieval times the name was applied to a larger area, whereof the present-day district is only the eastern half.

Stormarn became a part of Holstein in the 12th century. When Schleswig-Holstein became a province of Prussia in 1867, the Prussian administration established the district of Stormarn, with Wandsbek as its capital. In 1937 the southwestern part of the district was incorporated into Hamburg, and the district lost half of its population. Since Wandsbek was now a borough of Hamburg, the capital was moved to Bad Oldesloe after the war. In 1970 Stormarn again lost a substantial portion of its territory, when the city of Norderstedt was founded in order to become a part of the Segeberg district.

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