Reinbek is a town located in Stormarn

Stormarn

Stormarn is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Segeberg and Ostholstein, the city of Lübeck, the district of Lauenburg, and the city-state of Hamburg.-History:...

 district in the northern German

Germany

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 state of Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

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 within the metropolitan region of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. It is accessed by the A1 and the A24

Bundesautobahn 24

is an autobahn in northern Germany that connects the large metropolitan regions of Hamburg and Berlin. It was one of the three transit access roads to West Berlin during the Cold War....

 autobahn and federal highway 5

Bundesstraße 5

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.

Reinbek was first mentioned in 1226, the city rights were given in 1952.
The town is located at the river Bille

Bille

The river Bille is a small, slow-flowing river in Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, a right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is near Linau, north of the Hahnheide forest. It then flows south of Trittau, representing the border between Stormarn and Lauenburg, continues south of Reinbek and reaches the...

 which was dammed up here to form a mill pond.

Religion

Religious affiliation:

• 44% Protestant
• 9% Catholic
• 22% other religious groups
• 26% without religious affiliation

Important church communities

• Maria-Magdalenen church (Lutheran)
• Nathan-Söderblom church (Lutheran)
• Ansgar community, St. Ansgar chapel and St. Michael chapel (Lutheran)
• Herz-Jesu community (Roman Catholic)
• Evangelische Freikirche (Baptist)

International relations

Reinbek is twinned

Town twinning

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 with:

• Täby
  Täby
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  , Sweden
  Sweden
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  , since 1956
• Königslutter
  Königslutter
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  , Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
  
  , Germany
  Germany
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  , since 1961
• Padasjoki
  Padasjoki
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  , Finland
  Finland
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  , since 1974
• Koło, Poland
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  , since 1999

Buildings

• 16th century castle in Dutch renaissance style.

•In the castle are dishes and vases and other stuff dug up from the dirt.
•Annually they have Easter Egg hunt on the gardens of the castle and inside the castle you can by art including hollowed out eggs that have been painted with beautiful nature seens.

External links

• Official city site