Petershagen

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The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts:

The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts:

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany Petershagen is twinned with:

- Petershagen-Eggersdorf ( Brandenburg, Germany) -- since 1990

The SC Neuenknick e.V. motorcycle speedway club, race at the Stadion Lindenau track, which is located approximately 12 kilometres north east of the town on Brennwisk 40. The facility, a 357 metre track, has hosted important events since 1981, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1988.

The following persons were born in Petershagen:

- Master Bertram (c. 1345 – c. 1415), painter (presumably born in Bierde)

- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807), natural scientist

- Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854), Professor of Church History

- Henry Clay Brockmeyer (1826–1906), politician and translator of Hegel

- August Fick (1833–1916), Germanist and linguist

- Fred Walsen (1841-1906), American banker and Colorado State Treasurer

- Wilhelm Normann (1870–1939), inventor of fat hardening and thus the founder of margarine production

- Edelgard Bulmahn (born 1951), politician