Bad Bramstedt

Bad Bramstedt
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Segeberg
Mayor	Hans-Jürgen Kütbach (FDP)
Basic statistics
Area	24.14 km² (9.3 sq mi)
Elevation	9 m (30 ft)
Population	13,522 (31/12/2006)
- Density	560 /km² (1,451 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	SE
Postal code	24576
Area code	04192
Website	www.bad-bramstedt.de Coordinates: 53°55′7″N 9°53′4″E / 53.91861, 9.88444

Bad Bramstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approx. 40 km north of Hamburg. It is famous for its Roland and its rheumatism clinic. The current mayor is Hans-Jürgen Kütbach FDP.

[edit] Notable residents

Siegfried Liebschner (1935 - 2006), baptist theologist, born in Bad Bramstedt.
Arved Fuchs, born 1953 in Bad Bramstedt, adventurer, first person who reached both poles within one year and by foot.
Karl Lagerfeld fashion designer, born in Hamburg but went to school in Bad Bramstedt.
Oskar Alexander (1881 - 1942), founder of the rheumatism clinic in Bad Bramstedt. Killed in KZ Sachsenhausen for being of jewish descent.
Charles I.D. Looff (1852 - 1918), builder of various carousels and the Santa Monica Pier
Kurt Gustav Wilckens (1886-1923), worker and anarchist.[1]