Bargteheide

Bargteheide (West Low German: Bartheil) is a town in the district of Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany. It is situated between the cities of Ahrensburg and Bad Oldesloe, on the Hamburg to Lübeck rail line and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.

Bargteheide
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Bargteheide within Stormarn district
Bargteheide Show map of Germany Bargteheide Show map of Schleswig-Holstein
Coordinates: 53°43′N 10°16′E
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Stormarn
Government
• Mayor	Birte Kruse-Gobrecht (Ind.)
Area
• Total	15.83 km2 (6.11 sq mi)
Elevation	48 m (157 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[1]
• Total	16,314
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	22941
Dialling codes	04532
Vehicle registration	OD
Website	www.bargteheide.de

The population of Bargteheide was 16,045 at the end of 2017.

Bargteheide Town hall (Rathaus)

Mayors

• 1946–1957: Julius Gerken
• 1957–1962: Enno Wilkens
• 1962–1971: Karl Eduard Claussen (CDU)
• 1971–1984: Erich Reincke
• 1985–1996: Frank Pries
• 1996–2008: Werner Mitsch
• 2008–2016: Henning Görtz (CDU)
• since 2016: Birte Kruse-Gobrecht (independent)^[2]

Population development

• 1840: c. 1,000
• 1905: 1,980
• 1914: 2,300
• 1949: 6,900
• 1970: 7,374
• 2002: 13,820
• 2008: 14,902
• 2009: 15,306
• 2012: 15,528
• 2013: 16,000
• 2015: 16,292

Notable people

• Luise Zietz (1865–1922), socialist politician
• Katharina Fegebank (born 1977), German politician (The Greens)
• David Kross (born 1990), German actor
• Axel Fischer (born 1981), German pop singer and actor
• Matti Steinmann (born 1995), Finnish-German footballer

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Bargteheide is twinned with:^[3]

• Déville-lès-Rouen, France
• Żmigród, Poland