Sarstedt
Appearance
Sarstedt | |
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Location of Sarstedt within Hildesheim district | |
Country | Germany |
State | Lower Saxony |
District | Hildesheim |
Government | |
• Mayor | Karl-Heinz Wondratschek (SPD) |
Area | |
• Total | 42.94 km2 (16.58 sq mi) |
Elevation | 64 m (210 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 19,735 |
• Density | 460/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 |
Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is close to Hanover. Sarstedt station is on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn.
The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector is located nearby.
The former independent municipality Giften has been a part of Sarstedt since March 1, 1974.[2]
Mayor
The mayor of Sarstedt is Heike Brennecke (SPD). She was elected in September 2014.[3] 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), became nationwide known when she shot the supposed murder of her daughter Anna Bachmeier in a room of court Lübeck in 1981
- Michael Schenker, (born 1955), brother of Rudolf Schenker, virtuoso guitarist from UFO, Scorpions and Michael Schenker Group
References
- ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
- ^ Stadt Sarstedt, Stadt Sarstedt, archived from the original on November 27, 2006, retrieved 2008-08-31
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External links
Media related to Sarstedt at Wikimedia Commons