Municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany
Marschacht
Marschacht is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
It completes the Samtgemeinde Elbmarsch with Tespe and Drage. Marschacht is only a few kilometres far away from Geesthacht.
1216: First documentary mention of the settlement as Hachede, then a part of Saxony.
A change in the course of the Elbe cuts the settlement into two: Geesthacht and Marschacht.
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