Beverstedt is a municipality in the
district of Cuxhaven, in
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated approximately 20 km southeast of
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven (; ) is a city on the east bank of the Weser estuary in northern Germany. It forms an exclave of the Bremen (state), city-state of Bremen. The Geeste (river), River Geeste flows through the city before emptying into the Weser.
Brem ...
, and 40 km north of
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...
.
Beverstedt belonged to the
Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen
The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen () was an Hochstift, ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Bremen-Verden, Duchy of ...
. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the
Duchy of Bremen
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, which was first ruled in
personal union
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by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1823 the Duchy was abolished and its
territory
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In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, ...
became part of the
Stade Region.
Beverstedt was the seat of the former ''
Samtgemeinde
A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division) ...
'' ("collective municipality")
Beverstedt.
Transport
The municipality is connected to the road network by means of the
Bundesstraße 71. It is also connected to the railway network by
Stubben railway station.
References
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