Glinde

10° 12' 41" E Car registration plate symbol:  OD Community Identification Number:  01 0 62 018 Address of theGovernment:  Markt 1D-21509 Glinde official Webpage:  www.glinde.de Politics Bürgermeister:  Rainhard Zug
Glinde is a town in the province of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, about 20 km away from Hamburg.

 History 
The name Glinde is found in a document from March 25 1229 for the first time. In the document, Earl Adolf IV. of Schauenburg and Holstein gave the village to a Cistercian convent. (The convent moved to today's town of Reinbek.) The King of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Frederick I of Denmark, got all the convent had during the Protestant Reformation. In 1544 his son Christian III gave a part of it to each of his brothers. The owner changed again several times.

In 1948, the town administration of Glinde, Oststeinbek, Havighorst and Schönningstedt were brought together to the Amt Glinde. Schönningstedt left that combination in 1949 and Havighorst left it in 1973. So Glinde und Oststeinbek became independent villages.

On June 24, 1979, (on the 750th anniversary of the village), Glinde became a town.

 Politics 
 Partnerships with other towns 
 Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (near Nantes in the west French Département Loire-Atlantique)
 Kaposvár (Main town from the province of Somogy south of Lake Balaton in Hungary).

 Population 
1803: 220
1933: 544
1939: 2.173
1948: 5.059
2002: 16.124

 Literature 
 Wolfgang Bachhofer: Glinde. 1929 bis 1979. Eine junge Stadt stellt sich vor. Glinde 1979.

 Other websites 
www.glinde.de

Category:Towns in Schleswig-Holstein