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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Steinburg

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
2.71 km²

Local time
  
Monday 10:04 PM

Dialling code
  
04823

State
  
Schleswig-Holstein

Elevation
  
2 m (7 ft)

Postal codes
  
25554

Population
  
4,392 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
25554

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Weather
  
7°C, Wind NE at 5 km/h, 81% Humidity

Wilster is a town in Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Contents

Map of 25554 Wilster, Germany

History

Wilster was granted town rights under Lübeck law in 1282, and thereby counts itself among Schleswig-Holstein's oldest towns. Wilster forms the centre of the Wilstermarsch, a major cattle raising area in Germany.

On 1 July 2005, the town administration and the Amt of Wilstermarsch merged into one authority.

Sightseeing

The Old Town Hall built in 1585 is among Schleswig-Holstein's finest preserved Renaissance buildings.

Moreover, the late Baroque St. Bartholomew's Church, built by Ernst Georg Sonnin between 1775 and 1781, and the New Town Hall (Doos'sche Palais) built in 1786 are also worth seeing.

Personalities

  • 1571, 18 October, Wolfgang Ratke, died 27 April 1635 in Erfurt, didact and pedagogue.
  • 1914, 11 February, Hans Hermann Junge, died 13 August 1944 in Normandy, SS-officer and Adolf Hitler's personal valet.
  • 1943, 29 April, Klaus Grawe, died 10 July 2005 in Zurich, psychotherapy researcher and psychological psychotherapist.

    • References

    Wilster Wikipedia
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