| Type: | Stadt |
| Image Coa: | Elmshorn-Wappen.png |
| Coordinates: | 53.7519°N 9.6511°W |
| Image Plan: | Elmshorn in PI.svg |
| State: | Schleswig-Holstein |
| District: | Pinneberg |
| Elevation: | 0-21 |
| Area: | 21.36 |
| Postal Code: | 25335, 25336, 25337 |
| Area Code: | 04121 |
| Licence: | PI |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 01 0 56 015 |
| Website: | www.elmshorn.de |
| Mayor: | Volker Hatje |
| Party: | Ind |
Elmshorn (pronounced as /de/; nds|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-).
Historically Elmshorn had many companies in the food industry. Including meat processing and sausage production, margarine production and cereal processing. Major surviving companies include Dölling-Hareico (meat processing/sausage production) and Kölln (cereal processing, mainly oats and muesli).
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany. Elmshorn is twinned with:[1]
Tarascon, France (1987)
Stargard, Poland (1993)
Raisio, Finland (2000)The following people were born in Elmshorn (in order of year of birth):