Engelschoff is a municipality in the

district of Stade Stade is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has its seat in Stade and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. History The district of Stade was established in 1932 by merging three smaller precursor districts. Geogra ...

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History

Engelschoff 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 ...

, established in 1180. The village was subject to the

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by the Porta Coeli convent of nuns in then Eulsete (now

Himmelpforten Himmelpforten (Low Saxon: ''Himmelpoorten'') is a municipality west of Hamburg (Germany) in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is located on the creek. Himmelpforten is also part and the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipal ...

). Engelschoff remained part of that jurisdiction also after the convent was transformed into the secular seigniorial

Amt Himmelpforten Himmelpforten Convent (Low Saxon: ''Klooster Hemelpoorten'', ; ) was founded as a monastery of nuns following the Cistercian Rule during the 13th century in Himmelpforten, in today's Lower Saxony, Germany. During the 16th century, it was convert ...

in 1647. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the

Duchy of Bremen Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (; ), were two territories and immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they were prince-bishoprics of th ...

, which was first ruled in

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by the Swedish Crown - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712-1715) - and from 1715 on by the

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Crown. After a Prussian and then French occupation from 1806 to 1810, the ephemeric

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annexed the Duchy, before

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annexed it with effect of 1 January 1811. In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the

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, which - after its upgrade to the

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in 1814 - incorporated the Duchy in a

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and the Ducal territory, including Engelschoff within the Amt Himmelpforten, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823. Since in 1885 the Amt Himmelpforten merged in the new

District of Stade Stade is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has its seat in Stade and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. History The district of Stade was established in 1932 by merging three smaller precursor districts. Geogra ...

Engelschoff forms part of it.Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, ''Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik'', Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 61. No ISBN.

References

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