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Erich Kästner Gemeinschaftsschule Elmshorn (KGSE), formerly known as Kooperative Gesamtschule Elmshorn, is a German Cooperative Comprehensive School in Elmshorn-Hainholz. The KGSE is a Gesamtschule (comprehensive school) situated in Elmshorn; as such, allowing pupils to study alongside each other for one of the three German major school qualifications: Hauptschulabschluss, Realschulabschluss (roughly equivalent to GCSEs in the UK) and Abitur (equivalent of A-Levels in the UK).

Elmshorn (German pronunciation: [ɛlmsˈhɔʁn] ; Low German: Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the birthplace of writer and editor Hermann Schlüter (1851–1919), the mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) and the medievalist Heinz Woehlk (1944- ).

Elmshorn-Land is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated around Elmshorn, which is the seat of the Amt, but not part of it. The Amt ("collective municipality") Elmshorn-Land consists of the following municipalities (population in 2005 shown in parentheses): Klein Nordende (3,034) Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop (2,718) Kölln-Reisiek (2,620) Raa-Besenbek (508) Seester (978) Seestermühe (920) Seeth-Ekholt (862)

Kölln-Reisiek is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Klein Nordende is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Heidgraben is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The amount of citizens working in agriculture or in tree nurseries is only small, the majority commutes to surrounding places or to Hamburg. Heidgraben has an elementary school. There are no shopping facilities, but the community has a small supermarket.

Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bokholt-Hanredder is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Bokholt-Hanredder consists of the four districts Voßloch, Bokholt, Hanredder and Offenau, which are symbolically represented in the coat of arms (created in 1982). The fox represents Voßloch, the Offenau creek separates the district of the same name from the rest of the municipality. One beech leaf each represents the remaining two districts, which takes into account the names Bokholt (Low German: beech wood) and Redder (narrow dirt road between bends with deciduous trees such as beech).

Seeth-Ekholt is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Groß Nordende is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kiebitzreihe is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Uetersen (German pronunciation: [ˈyːtɐzn̩] , formerly known as Ütersen (Holstein)) is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Elmshorn, and 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Hamburg at the small Pinnau River, close to the Elbe river. Uetersen is home to the Rosarium Uetersen, the oldest and largest rose garden in Northern Germany, created in 1929.