Bargfeld-Stegen is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
It has become famous for the many novels and stories the great German author Arno Schmidt has situated there, having lived there from 1958 until his death (1979).
Paschen Ritter und Edler von Cossel (b. 21 December 1714 in Anklam, Vorpommern; d. 17 January 1805 in Jersbek), was a German lawyer (since 1738), doctor of laws, syndic, canon of the Hamburg Cathedral chapter, and owner of two Holsteinian estates, Gut Jersbek and Gut Stegen (from 1774–1805).