Bargstedt is a municipality in the district of Stade, in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It lies in the northern part of the country, within the Stade administrative district, a region situated between the cities of Hamburg and Bremerhaven in the Elbe-Weser area.
As a municipality, Bargstedt is one of the constituent local administrative units of the Stade district, which forms part of the larger Lower Saxony state structure. The surrounding district is a largely rural and agricultural part of northern Germany, and Bargstedt shares in that character as a small, incorporated community rather than a large urban centre.
Detailed information on the municipality's population, area, history, and local institutions is limited in the available source material, so only its status and location can be stated with confidence here. Bargstedt should not be confused with other places of the same name; this article concerns the municipality in the Stade district of Lower Saxony.