Pinneberg Travel Guide
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Pinneberg Overview
Pinneberg is located about 18 kilometers northwest of Hamburg (Hamburg vacation rentals | Hamburg travel guide). In the north it is bordered by the municipalities Prisdorf, Kummerfeld and Borstel-Hohenraden, the east by the municipality Rellingen, the south Halstenbek (Halstenbek vacation rentals | Halstenbek travel guide), Hamburg, and Schenefeld (Schenefeld vacation rentals | Schenefeld travel guide), and to the west the community Appenzell.
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Things to See in Pinneberg
The Baroque Drostei
Former Magistrate House
Wasserturm
Former county administration building
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Maps and Driving Directions to Pinneberg
Many regional trains stop at Pinneberg railway station; the Hamburg S-Bahn terminates there. The S-Bahn stops also at the Thesdorf railway station.
Drostei
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Pinneberg: Pinneberg (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Pinneberg
More about the History of Pinneberg
When a castle was first built in Pinneberg around the year 1200 AD, the site had already been used as a Germanic ‚Thing-Stätte for several centuries. In 1370 the castle was captured by Count Adolf VIII of Schauenburg. In 1397 Pinneberg was first mentioned in official documents as a seat of courts. In 1472 a Renaissance castle was built in place of the old castle. It was heavily damaged in the years 1627 and 1657 and was finally torn down in 1720. between 1765 and 1767 the Drostei was built for the Drots Hans von Ahlfeldt. This brick building, which was probably erected by Ernst Georg Sonnin, is the most important example of Baroque architecture in the district of Pinneberg.
After some servants and craftsmen had settled in the vicinity of the castle, the settlement expanded slowly, only receiving municipal rights in 1875, although it had been the seat of the Danish ‘Landdrost’ since 1640 and seat of the Prussian district administrator since 1866 within the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1905 the settlement of ‘Pinneberger Dorf’ was incorporated and in 1927 the villages of Thesdorf and Waldenau followed. After World War II the number of inhabitants of Pinneberg doubled because of the immigration of displaced people, predominantly from East Prussia. In contrast to many other cities in Schleswig-Holstein, Pinneberg was able to keep the number of inhabitants stable.
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