Stade (district)

This article is about the German district. For the German city, see Stade.

For other uses, see Stade (disambiguation).

Stade
District
Coat of arms
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Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
Capital	Stade
Area
• Total	1,266 km2 (489 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2013)
• Total	196,516
• Density	160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	STD
Website	landkreis-stade.de

Stade is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has its seat in Stade and is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Harburg, Rotenburg and Cuxhaven, the Elbe River, and the city state of Hamburg.

History

The district of Stade was established in 1932 by merging three smaller precursor districts.

Geography

The district is situated at the southern banks of the Elbe River, between the city of Hamburg and the river's mouth. The western border of the district is the Oste, a narrow tributary of the Elbe. The land between the Oste and the town of Stade is traditionally called Kehdingen. The area to the east of Stade is known as the Altes Land (literally "Old Land"). It is characterised by thousands of fruit-trees.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

• a castle, symbolising Stade as the former seat of the Counts of Stade
• the key from the arms of the Archbishopric of Bremen, to which the area once belonged
• a white horse, representing Hanover and Lower Saxony

Cities and municipalities

Cities	Samtgemeinden
Buxtehude Stade Free municipalities Drochtersen Jork	1. Apensen Apensen1 Beckdorf Sauensiek 2. Fredenbeck Deinste Fredenbeck1 Kutenholz 3. Harsefeld Ahlerstedt Bargstedt Brest Harsefeld1	4. Horneburg Agathenburg Bliedersdorf Dollern Horneburg1 Nottensdorf 5. Lühe Grünendeich Guderhandviertel Hollern-Twielenfleth Mittelnkirchen Neuenkirchen Steinkirchen1	6. Nordkehdingen Balje Freiburg1 Krummendeich Oederquart Wischhafen 7. Oldendorf-Himmelpforten Burweg Düdenbüttel Engelschoff Estorf Großenwörden Hammah Heinbockel Himmelpforten1 Kranenburg Oldendorf
	1seat of the Samtgemeinde

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (German)