Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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. It has approximately 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is situated 20 km south of

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and 10 km north of

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Sarstedt station Sarstedt (german: Bahnhof Sarstedt) is a railway station located in Sarstedt, Germany. The station is located on the Hanoverian Southern Railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, Metronom and Erixx. The station is also served by ...

is on the

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and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn. The

GEO 600 GEO600 is a gravitational wave detector located near Sarstedt, a town 20 km to the south of Hanover, Germany. It is designed and operated by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Opt ...

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detector is located nearby. The former independent municipality

Giften Giften, a part of the town of Sarstedt in Germany, is the site of a post World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War ...

has been a part of Sarstedt since 1 March 1974.

Mayor

The mayor of Sarstedt is Heike Brennecke (SPD). She was elected in September 2014,Einzelergebnisse der Direktwahlen 25 May 2014 in Niedersachsen
retrieved 14 November 2014. and re-elected in 2021. The predecessor was Karl-Heinz Wondratschek (SPD).

Famous people from Sarstedt

Jean-Henri Pape Jean-Henri Pape, born as Johann Heinrich Pape and also known as Henry Pape (1 July 1789 – 2 February 1875), was a distinguished French maker of pianos and harps in the early 19th century. Pape was born in Sarstedt, Germany, in 1789. He arr ...

(1789-1875), German-French piano maker *

Walter Mahlendorf Walter Mahlendorf (born 4 January 1935) is a German former sprinter who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the ...

(born 1935), athlete, Olympic champion Olympic Summer Games 1960 4 × 100 m relay *

Rudolf Schenker Rudolf Schenker (born 31 August 1948) is a German guitarist and founder of the hard rock band Scorpions. He is the rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter and longest-serving original member of the band. He is also the CEO/owner-manager of the Sc ...

, (born 1948), rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of

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band

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Harald Grosskopf Harald Grosskopf (born Harald Großkopf) is a German electronic musician. He played with several Krautrock and progressive rock bands of the 1970s in Germany, and released solo music. Biography Grosskopf was born in Hildesheim on October 23, ...

(born 1949), musician, 1965 to 1966 drummer of the Sarstedter Beatband 'The Stuntmen' ' *

Marianne Bachmeier Marianne Bachmeier (3 June 1950 – 17 September 1996) became famous in Germany after she shot and killed the murderer of her daughter in an act of vigilantism in the hall of the District Court of Lübeck in 1981. Youth and family Bachmeier grew ...

(1950-1996), vigilante who shot the supposed murderer of her daughter Anna Bachmeier in a court room in

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in 1981 *

Michael Schenker Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group. He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker ...

, (born 1955), brother of Rudolf Schenker, virtuoso guitarist from

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and

Michael Schenker Group The Michael Schenker Group (often abbreviated as MSG) are a guitar-oriented hard rock band, formed in London in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker. In 1986, Schenker and vocalist Robin McAuley formed the McAuley Sche ...

References

External links

Sarstedt official website
Towns in Lower Saxony Hildesheim (district) {{Hildesheim-geo-stub