Quickborn is a rich town in the district of Pinneberg, in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sc ...

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. It belongs to Metropolregion

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and is located on the north part of Hamburg on Autobahn A7.

Geography

Quickborn is located about 18 km north from the centre of

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, on the eastern edge of

Kreis Pinneberg Pinneberg () is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the districts of Steinburg and Segeberg, the city (and state) of Hamburg and the state of Lower Saxony (district Stade). The island of ...

. It lies on the A7 between Hamburg and

Neumünster Neumünster () is a city in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With more than 79,000 registered inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest municipality in Schleswig-Holstein (behind Kiel, Lübeck and Flensburg). History The city was fi ...

. It is situated just 6 km from the Hamburg Airport. Quickborn is also located along the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway, which connects it to the

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and buses of the

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. Northwest of Quickborn is the Himmelmoor, the largest

raised bog Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions. Raised bogs, unlike fens, are exclusively fed by precipitation (ombrot ...

in Schleswig-Holstein, which is about 605 hectares large. It has long been used for peat mining. For this purpose, a narrow-gauge railway was built through the bog. South of the city is the Holmmoor, a nature preserve that is about 110 ha. large.

International relations

Quickborn is twinned with: *

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, Sweden (since 13.09.1974) *

Uckfield Uckfield () is a town in the Wealden District of East Sussex in South East England. The town is on the River Uck, one of the tributaries of the River Ouse, on the southern edge of the Weald. Etymology 'Uckfield', first recorded in writing as ...

, Sussex, England (since 18.02.1990) *

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, Germany (since 08.09.1990)

Notable people

* Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), songwriter, poet, satirist, novelist * Mike Krüger (born 1951), Comedian, actor, singer, lived for several years in Quickborn * Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780–1808), botanist *

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(born 1943), TV Anchorman and actor

References

Towns in Schleswig-Holstein Pinneberg (district) {{Pinneberg-geo-stub