image author: Kreis Pinneberg

The district Pinneberg is situated right in the south of Schleswig-Holstein. It borders onto Hamburg and clockwise further onto the Elbe river and the districts Steinburg, Stormarn and Segeberg.

In comparison of surface the district Pinneberg is with 664 square kilometres Schleswig-Holstein's smallest district. But in population it the largest in the North German county. With nearly 290.000 citizens it has over 10% of Schleswig-Holstein's population.

image author: Kreis Pinneberg

Map views

To get an overview of the district Pinneberg to take a look at the district's maps:

The archipelago Heligoland is by the way part of the district Pinneberg since 1932.

Communities and towns

The district Pinneberg encompasses 7 towns, 5 independent communities and 37 affiliated communities, which then again are combined in 7 departments.

Tree strong

Already the fir tree in the coat-of-arms of the district Pinneberg indicates that the region knows something about trees. And that is quite right because here one finds the world's largest interconnected tree nursery.