Lauenburg Lakes Office

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Area :	237.73 km 2
Residents:	13,656 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	RZ
Office key :	01 0 53 5358
Office structure:	25 municipalities
Office administration address ; :	Fünfhausen 1 ; 23909 Ratzeburg
Website :	www.amt-lauenburgische-seen.de
Head of Office :	Heinz Dohrendorff
Location of the Lauenburg Lakes Office in the Duchy of Lauenburg district

The Lauenburg Lakes Office is an office in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein . It stretches along the Ratzeburg Lakes to the Schaalsee in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park . The administration of the office has its seat in the city of Ratzeburg . A branch exists in the community of Groß Grönau , which, as a suburban settlement outside the gates of the city of Lübeck, is the community with the largest population and density of the district. A citizens' office has been set up in Sterley .

Official municipalities

The office was formed as the Office Ratzeburg-Land with originally 18 communities. After the Gudow-Sterley office was dissolved , the municipalities of Brunsmark , Hollenbek , Horst , Klein Zecher , Salem , Seedorf and Sterley joined the office on January 1, 2007 . The office then gave itself its current name.

Blazon : "Above the green heraldic shield base in blue two silver, flat-wave bars tapering to the left, above a silver flying crane."

Territorial changes between Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein in 1945 , which also affect municipalities of this office, are based on the Barber-Lyaschtschenko Agreement .