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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Hildesheim

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
42.94 km²

Local time
  
Wednesday 11:02 PM

Dialling code
  
05066

State
  
Lower Saxony

Elevation
  
64 m (210 ft)

Postal codes
  
31157

Population
  
18,591 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
31157

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Weather
  
7°C, Wind E at 11 km/h, 66% Humidity

Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is close to Hanover. Sarstedt station is on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn.

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Map of 31157 Sarstedt, Germany

The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector is located nearby.

The former independent municipality Giften has been a part of Sarstedt since March 1, 1974.

Mayor

The mayor of Sarstedt is Heike Brennecke (SPD). She was elected in September 2014. The predecessor was Karl-Heinz Wondratschek (SPD).

Famous people from Sarstedt

  • Jean-Henri Pape (1789-1875), German-French piano maker
  • Walter Mahlendorf (born 1935), athlete, Olympic champion Olympic Summer Games 1960 4 × 100 m relay
  • Rudolf Schenker, (born 1948), rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of hardrock band Scorpions
  • Harald Grosskopf (born 1949), musician, 1965 to 1966 drummer of the Sarstedter Beatband 'The Stuntmen' '
  • Marianne Bachmeier (1950-1996), became nationwide known when she shot the supposed murder of her daughter Anna Bachmeier in a room of court Lübeck in 1981
  • Michael Schenker, (born 1955), brother of Rudolf Schenker, virtuoso guitarist from UFO, Scorpions and Michael Schenker Group

    • References

    Sarstedt Wikipedia
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