Drochtersen

Drochtersen is a municipality in the district Stade, in Lower Saxony (Germany). It is located 45 km north west of Hamburg.

Drochtersen
Coat of arms
Location of Drochtersen within Stade district
Drochtersen
Drochtersen
Coordinates: 53°42′N 09°23′E
CountryGermany
StateLower Saxony
DistrictStade
Subdivisions2 districts
Government
  MayorHans-Wilhelm Bösch (CDU)
Area
  Total126.74 km2 (48.93 sq mi)
Elevation
2 m (7 ft)
Population
 (2018-12-31)[1]
  Total11,184
  Density88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zoneCET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes
21706
Dialling codes04143, 04148, 04775
Vehicle registrationSTD
Websitewww.drochtersen.de

It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1823 the Duchy was abolished and its territory became part of the Stade Region.

Notable places

The Drochtersen Shot Tower is a 42 meter high shot tower owned by the Haentler & Natermann Jagd-Schrot & Hagel-Fabrik (Hunt pellet and hail fabrication) factory for the production of shot balls at the Elbe. This tower is not in use any more.

gollark: All no hail C!
gollark: If we got infinite-memory computers, we'd be able to write code as sloppy as we wanted and it'd run fine! Memory-wise, anyway.
gollark: Yes, we could ignore all memory leaks.
gollark: I really need to buy some of that infinitely large memory, though.
gollark: I'll go find my infinitely large memory and plug it into my raspberry pi and we can check.

References


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