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Harburg
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German district in Lower Saxony
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Winsen (Luhe)
- District admin
- Rainer Rempe ( CDU )
- Total
- 1,245 km (481 sq mi)
- Density
- 213.5/km (553.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- WL
- Website
- www .landkreis-harburg .de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Harburg
- Country
- Weimar Republic
- Located in
- Lüneburg Government Region
- Capital
- Winsen
- Population
- 252776
- Area
- 1245.03
- Elevation
- 49
- Shares border with
- Hamburg
- Headquarters
- Winsen
- Official website
- www.landkreis-harburg.de
- Image
- Schloss Winsen.JPG
- Licence plate code
- WL
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- inception
- 1932-08-01
- Commons category
- Landkreis Harburg
- topic's main category
- Category:Harburg (district)
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Harburg
- twinned administrative body
- Fukui Prefecture
- male population
- 124502
- P11012
- Idiops lusingius
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Encyclopedic overview
District Harburg is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It takes its name from the town of Harburg upon Elbe, which used to be the capital of the district but is now part of Hamburg and therefore no longer within the district. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Lüneburg, Heidekreis, Rotenburg (Wümme) and Stade, by the City of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein (District of Lauenburg).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.