Elmshorn

Geschichte

Elmshorn is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is located 30 km north of Hamburg at the small river Krückau, close to the Elbe river, is the sixth-largest city in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Elmshorn has a shopping center and common area in the center of town called the "Buttermarkt" by the locals although its official name is Karl-Marx-Platz. In the surrounding areas are small farms and dairy/ horse farms. It is the birthplace of writer and editor Hermann Schlüter (1851–1919), the mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), and the medievalist Heinz Woehlk (1944- ).Economy and industryHistorically, Elmshorn had many companies in the food industry including meat processing/ sausage production, margarine production and cereal processing. Major surviving companies include Dölling-Hareico (meat processing/ sausage production) and Kölln (cereal processing, mainly oats and muesli).International relationsTwin towns — Sister citiesElmshorn is twinned with: Tarascon, France (1987) Wittenberge, Germany (1990) Stargard, Poland (1993) Raisio, Finland (2000) Ventura, California