Ahrensburg

Coat of arms

Ahrensburg

Location of Ahrensburg within Stormarn district

Coordinates: 53°40′29″N 10°14′28″E / 53.67472°N 10.24111°ECoordinates: 53°40′29″N 10°14′28″E / 53.67472°N 10.24111°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Michael Sarach (SPD)

Area

• Total

35.3 km² (13.6 sq mi)

Elevation

46 m (151 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

32,606

• Density

920/km² (2,400/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

22926

04102

Website

Ahrensburg (German pronunciation: [ˈaːʁənsˌbʊɐ̯k]) is a town in the district of Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located northeast of Hamburg and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Its population is around 31,000. Schloss Ahrensburg, the town's symbol, is a Renaissance castle dating from 1595.

Ahrensburg is situated in the Tunneltal, in which Alfred Rust excavated many items dating back to the ice age.

Ahrensburg is situated next to the Autobahn A1 and on the railway route between the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck.

The Ahrensburger Tunneltal is a place of numerous excavations from the Upper Paleolithic culture. The culture is called Ahrensburg culture by archaeologists.

The town dates back to the 13th Century, when the Counts of Schauenburg founded the village of Woldenhorn (which later became the town of Ahrensburg) and the neighbouring villages Ahrensfelde, Meilsdorf and Beimoor. Woldenhorn is first mentioned in the year 1314. The village came into the possession of the Cistercian Reinfeld Abbey in 1327, and Woldenhorn became the seat of the monastery reeve until the middle of the 16th century.

The "Arx Arnsburga", also called Arnesvelde castle, was built around the year 1200. Ruins of the castle are still visible in the Hagen forest to the south of the town. The town coat of arms shows the castle in the upper field. There are records of reeves based in the castle in 1295 and 1304. In 1326, Count John III of Schauenburg had his reeve relocated to Trittau and abandoned the castle.

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