Stade (district)

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State:	Lower Saxony
Capital:	Stade } } |- | Area:||1266 km² |- | Inhabitants:||194,500 (2003) |- | pop. density:||154 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||STD |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-stade.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Stade is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Harburg, Rotenburg and Cuxhaven, the Elbe River, and the city state of Hamburg. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History The district of Stade was established in 1932 by merging three smaller precursor districts. Geography The district is situated at the southern banks of the Elbe river, between the city of Hamburg and the river's mouth. The western border of the district is the Oste river, a narrow tributary of the Elbe. The land between the Oste and the town of Stade is traditionally called Kehdingen. East of Stade the landscape is called Altes Land (literally "Old Land"). It is characterised by thousands of fruit-trees. Coat of arms The coat of arms displays: a castle, symbolising the Grafenburg Castle the key from the arms of Bremen the heraldic horse of Lower Saxony Towns and municipalities Towns Samtgemeinden Free municipalities Buxtehude Stade Apensen Fredenbeck Harsefeld Himmelpforten Horneburg Lühe Nordkehdingen Oldendorf Drochtersen Jork External links [Official website] (German) Cities and rural districts in the Federal State of Lower Saxony in Germany Region Hanover Cities Brunswick | Delmenhorst | Emden | Oldenburg | Osnabrück | Salzgitter | Wilhelmshaven | Wolfsburg Rural districts Ammerland | Aurich | Grafschaft Bentheim | Celle | Cloppenburg | Cuxhaven | Diepholz | Emsland | Friesland | Gifhorn | Goslar | Göttingen | Hamelin-Pyrmont | Harburg | Helmstedt | Hildesheim | Holzminden | Leer | Lüchow-Dannenberg | Lüneburg | Nienburg | Northeim | Oldenburg | Osnabrück | Osterholz | Osterode | Peine | Rotenburg | Schaumburg | Soltau-Fallingbostel | Stade | Uelzen | Vechta | Verden | Wesermarsch | Wittmund | Wolfenbüttel   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: