Wöhrden is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Heinrich Scheidemann, one of the greatest organ composers of the early Baroque, disciple of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and forerunner to J. S. Bach, was born in Wöhrden, in 1595.

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