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Itzehoe {Link without Title} is a town of Germany , in the ''Bundesland'' of Schleswig-Holstein , the capital of Kreis Steinburg . It is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe , 51 km northwest of Hamburg and 24 km north of Glückstadt . The population is about 34,900. The church of St Lawrence, dating from the 12th Century , and the building in which the Holstein estates formerly met, are noteworthy. The town has a convent founded in 1256 , many schools, a hospital and other benevolent institutions. Itzehoe is a busy commercial place. Itzehoe is the oldest town in Holstein . Its nucleus was a Castle , built in 809 by Egbert , one of Charlemagne 's counts, against the Danes . The community which sprang up around it was variously called Esseveldoburg, Eselsfleth and Ezeho. In 1201 the town was destroyed, but it was restored in 1224 . The new town was granted the Lübeck rights by Adolphus IV in 1238 , and the old town in 1303 . During the Thirty Years' War Itzehoe was twice destroyed by the Swedes , in 1644 and 1657 , but was rebuilt on each occasion. It passed to Prussia in 1867 , with the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein. Germany's lowest elevation is to be found a short distance from Itzehoe, in the ''Wilstermarsch'', which reaches 3.54 m below Sea Level . REFERENCES |
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