| District of Stade |
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| General |
| Administration¹ | | Street address: | Wirtschaftsförderung Landkreis Stade GmbH
Große Schmiedestraße 6
21682 Stade |  | | Telephone: | 04141/8006-0 | | Fax: | 04141/8006-15 | | E-mail: | info@wf-stade.de | | Homepage: | http://www.wf-stade.de  | | | Contact: | Mr. Michael Seggewiß | | Telephone: | 04141/8006-12 | | Fax: | 04141/8006-15 | | E-mail: | info@wf-stade.de | | | |
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Towns and municipalities
in the district
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Special
location features¹ | | The District of Stade is the location of a research centre and a Technology Centre in which the business and scientific communities and the public authorities are jointly pushing forward the development, production and application of carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics (in German: CFK). The Buxtehude Technology Centre smooths the way for start-up entrepreneurs taking their first steps towards independence in technology- and production-oriented business domains. Apart from office space, the Stade Start-Up and Innovation Centre (Gründungs- und Innovationszentrum) also offers its tenants a common infrastructure and consulting services during their start-up phase. In addition, the District is the seat of an an internationally recognised competence centre for fruit-growing in Northern Germany with the ESTEBURG Obstbauzentrum Jork. |
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Business sites,
real estates | | Business sites: | 35 |
View | | | Real estates: | 6 |
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| Population |
Population²
| | | | | | | | | | Inhabitants: | 197,132 | | 98,917 |
(50.2 %)
| | 98,215 |
(49.8 %)
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Age structure: |  | |
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Population density²
| | Inhabitants/km²: | 155.7 | |
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| Infrastructure |
| Educational institutions² | | Elementary schools: | 44 | | Secondary schools: | 15 | | Secondary modern schools: | 15 | | Grammar schools: | 6 | | Special schools: | 6 | | Vocational schools: | 5 | | Other educational
facilities¹:
| The region has a pool of committed and well-trained specialists - a location advantage highly valued by local companies. The broadly ranged educational and further training infrastructure includes schools of further education as well as vocational colleges with close contacts to the industrial and business community. The District is also a location for tertiary education. Thanks to the Hochschule 21 and, since 2006, the Private University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen as well, students and companies are offered a combination of theory and practice that opens up excellent career prospects. In addition, the multifaceted range of offers provided by the tertiary education "on the doorstep" with various teaching and research priorities give enterprises excellent opportunities to attract and recruit the next generation of specialists and exploit the transfer of knowledge between universities and business more effectively. Additional further training facilities support lifelong learning and the qualification of personnel for future career demands. | |
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| Health care¹ | | Hospitals: | 2
(836 total beds)
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facilities:
| Further specialist clinics for nuclear medicine and operative orthopaedics | |
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| Leisure/culture/sport¹ | Leisure
facilities:
| 3 golf courses, 1 sports airfield, ice sport complex in Harsefeld, cinemas, sports and leisure complexes, indoor go-cart course (Buxtehude), bowling alleys, skater courses | | Cultural
facilities:
| Alongside Agathenburg Castle, the Stadeum in Stade and the Natureum Niederelbe open-air nature museum, the district is also home to numerous other museums, such as the Kehdingen Coastal Shipping Museum, the Fort Grauerort fortifications, the narrow-gauge railway museum in Deinste and the Schwedenspeicher (Swedish repository) Museum (regional history) in Stade. | | Sport
facilities:
| As well as sports halls, open-air swimming baths, riding halls and outdoor arenas, the district can boast 3 golf courses, 10 competitive-level sports grounds, an ice rink and a sport airfield. | | | Special amenities on offer: | Agathenburg Castle
| Natureum Niederelbe
| Stadeum in Stade
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| Transport¹ | Comment on the
transport infrastructure:
| The District of Stade business location is growing in big steps forward. The location is becoming interesting because the transport infrastructure that exists there, such as the seaport Stade with its sea deep waterfront, or the terminal for intermodal transhipment in Stade Brunshausen. In both cases an expansion of capacity is currently planned, which will further enhance the overall efficiency of the location for business purposes when implemented. The transport links to Hamburg were made another bit more effective at the end of 2007 with the completion of the rapid-transit railway system (S-Bahn) connection from Stade to Hamburg.
The infrastructure projects that will be realised over the next few years also open up further perspectives. The A 26 motorway from Stade to Hamburg, which is already under construction and the first section of which is already completed and in use, is one example, as is the River Elbe crossing to the west of Stade with its continuation in the south direction as the A 20. These links supplement the already existing links to the A 1 Hamburg - Bremen motorway, the ICE rail station in Hamburg-Harburg, and Hamburg Airport. | | |
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| Economics |
Economic strength²  | | | | | | | Gross domestic product 2009:
| 25,533 | 87 % | | | | | | | | | Gross value added 2009 | | - Production sector: | 51,640 | 91 % | | - Service sector: | 59,691 | 113 % | | | | | | | | Net revenue from local business tax 2010:
| 284.78 | 97 % | | Municipal share of income tax 2010:
| 292.39 | 114 % | | |
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Employment³
| | | | | | | | | | | Employed persons: | 52,723 | 23,151 |
(43.9 %)
| 29,572 |
(56.1 %)
| | Change over previous year: | +648 |
(+1.2 %)
| | | Employment rate: | 55.9 | % | |
Employed persons acc. to
economic sectors: |  | | | | | | | | Commuters: | 34,934 | 50,055 | -15,121 | | | |
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| Unemployment³ | |
Major
companies¹ | |
| Business promotion schemes¹ | |
Business promotion
agencies¹ | | | Street address: | Wirtschaftsförderung Landkreis Stade GmbH
Große Schmiedestraße 6
21682 Stade | | | Telephone: | 04141/8006-0 | | Fax: | 04141/8006-15 | | E-mail: | info@wf-stade.de | | Homepage: | http://www.wf-stade.de | | | Contact: | Mr. Michael Seggewiß | | Telephone: | 04141/8006-12 | | Fax: | 04141/8006-15 | | E-mail: | info@wf-stade.de | | | | | |
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