Bönningstedt is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg

Pinneberg (district)

Pinneberg is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Steinburg and Segeberg, the city of Hamburg and the state of Lower Saxony .-History:...

, in Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

, Germany

Germany

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. It is situated approx. 8 km east of Pinneberg

Pinneberg

Pinneberg is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district Pinneberg in Germany. The town has 42,301 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northwest of Hamburg....

, and 13 km north of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. It is a "twin town

Town twinning

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", (that is, the two town councils have set up a partnership) with Seaford

Seaford, East Sussex

Seaford is a coastal town in the county of East Sussex, on the south coast of England. Lying east of Newhaven and Brighton and west of Eastbourne, it is the largest town in Lewes district, with a population of about 23,000....

, in East Sussex

East Sussex

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 on the south coast of England

England

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Bönningstedt was the seat of the Amt

Amt (subnational entity)

Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only found in Germany, but formerly also common in northern European countries. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to a U.S...

("collective municipality") Bönningstedt. Since January 2007, it is the seat of the Amt Pinnau

Pinnau

Pinnau is an Amt in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The Amt Pinnau was formed in January 2007 by the merger of the Ämter Bönningstedt and Pinneberg-Land...

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Bönningstedt used to be destination for people from Hamburg to enjoy their sparetime. This is how this village grew.

Bönningstedt is connected to the public transport system of Hamburg via the AKN railway company

AKN Eisenbahn

AKN Eisenbahn AG is a railway company operating commuter and freight trains in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The company headquarters is located in Kaltenkirchen...

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Telephone numbers in Bönningstedt start with 040 (for Hamburg) but is actually situated in Schleswig-Holstein where telephone numbers are starting with 041XX. This is very unusual, as the starting number from the telephone numbers indicate the location of a phone line.