Stormarn (district)

This article is about the modern-day county. For the historical gau, see Stormarn (Gau).

Stormarn
District
Flag of Stormarn Flag Coat of arms
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Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
Capital	Bad Oldesloe
Area
• Total	766 km2 (296 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2013)
• Total	234,674
• Density	310/km2 (790/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	OD
Website	kreis-stormarn.de

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.

History

In medieval times the name Stormarn was applied to a larger area, of which the present-day district is only the eastern half. It was the home of the Saxon tribe the Sturmarii.

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.

Geography

The river Trave runs through the district before entering the city of Lübeck. In the southernmost portion of Stormarn there are the eastern suburbs of the Hamburg metropolitan area.

Coat of arms

Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays a white swan, with a crown around its neck, on red ground. The swan has been the heraldic animal of Stormarn since the Middle Ages.

Towns and municipalities

Independent towns	Independent municipalities
Ahrensburg Bad Oldesloe Bargteheide Glinde Reinbek Reinfeld	Ammersbek Barsbüttel Großhansdorf Oststeinbek

Ämter
1. Bad Oldesloe-Land [seat: Bad Oldesloe] Grabau Lasbek Meddewade Neritz Pölitz Rethwisch Rümpel Steinburg Travenbrück 2. Bargteheide-Land [seat: Bargteheide] Bargfeld-Stegen Delingsdorf Elmenhorst Hammoor Jersbek Nienwohld Todendorf Tremsbüttel	3. Itzstedt [seat: Itzstedt] (the other 6 municipalities of the Amt belong to the district of Segeberg) Tangstedt 4. Nordstormarn [seat: Reinfeld] Badendorf Barnitz Feldhorst Hamberge Heidekamp Heilshoop Klein Wesenberg Mönkhagen Rehhorst Wesenberg Westerau Zarpen	5. Siek Braak Brunsbek Hoisdorf Siek1 Stapelfeld 6. Trittau Grande Grönwohld Großensee Hamfelde Hohenfelde Köthel Lütjensee Rausdorf Trittau1 Witzhave
1seat of the Amt

External links

• Official website (German)