Bargteheide -the friendly shopping town-

image author: Stadt Bargteheide

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Founded around the year 1000 as a larger Saxon settlement Bargteheide developed into a central market village early. Today the former 'big-village' is a modern town and carries the appellation of friendly shopping city.

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Here is also the watershed between North Sea and Baltic Sea located.

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Next to the signboard of the market fonts there are two archetype of Bargteheide the Sheppard Schacht and Schinderhannes.

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For a long time the present restaurant Utspann was the mayor's office. The Fachhallen-house has been built on a granite base between 1785 and 1795.