Sarstedt
Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has approximately 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is situated 20 km south of Hanover and 10 km north of Hildesheim. Sarstedt station is on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn.
Sarstedt | |
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Location of Sarstedt within Hildesheim district  | |
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| Coordinates: 52°14′22″N 9°51′38″E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Lower Saxony |
| District | Hildesheim |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–26) | Heike Brennecke[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 42.94 km2 (16.58 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 64 m (210 ft) |
| Population (2021-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 19,423 |
| • Density | 450/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 31157 |
| Dialling codes | 05066 |
| Vehicle registration | HI |
| Website | www.sarstedt.de |
The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector is located nearby.
The former independent municipality Giften has been a part of Sarstedt since 1 March 1974.[3]
Mayor
The mayor of Sarstedt is Heike Brennecke (SPD). She was elected in September 2014,[4] and re-elected in 2021.[1] The predecessor was Karl-Heinz Wondratschek (SPD).
Famous people from Sarstedt
- Jean-Henri Pape (1789-1875), German-French piano maker
- Walter Mahlendorf (born 1935), athlete, Olympic champion Olympic Summer Games 1960 4 × 100 m relay
- Rudolf Schenker, (born 1948), rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of hardrock band Scorpions
- Harald Grosskopf (born 1949), musician, 1965 to 1966 drummer of the Sarstedter Beatband 'The Stuntmen' '
- Marianne Bachmeier (1950-1996), vigilante who shot the supposed murderer of her daughter Anna Bachmeier in a court room in Lübeck in 1981
- Michael Schenker, (born 1955), brother of Rudolf Schenker, virtuoso guitarist from UFO, Scorpions and Michael Schenker Group
References
- "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
- "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2021" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
- Stadt Sarstedt (in German), Stadt Sarstedt, archived from the original on 27 November 2006, retrieved 31 August 2008
- Einzelergebnisse der Direktwahlen 25 May 2014 in Niedersachsen, retrieved 14 November 2014.
External links
Media related to Sarstedt at Wikimedia Commons
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