Kehdingen is the name of a landscape in the north German district of

Stade Stade (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (, ) is a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the Stade (district), district () which bears its name. It is located roughly to the wes ...

on the Lower Elbe, the lower reaches of the

River Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

. It extends roughly from the mouth of the

Oste Oste () is a river in northern Lower Saxony, Germany with a length of . It is a left tributary of the Elbe. The Oste flows through the Harburg (district), districts of Harburg, Rotenburg (district), Rotenburg, Stade (district), Stade and Cuxhav ...

in the north to the town of

in the south. Kehdingen is one of the Elbe Marshes. Until 1932 there was a Prussian district known as Land Kehdingen, and until 1975 there was an Evangelical-Lutheran deanery of Kehdingen with its base in

Drochtersen Drochtersen () is a municipality in the district of Stade, in Lower Saxony (Germany). It is located 45 km Northwest of Hamburg. It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy ...

, which was absorbed on 1 January 1976 into the deanery of Stade.

Important villages

* Bützfleth *

* Freiburg/Elbe *

Wischhafen Wischhafen (low German ''Wischhoben'') is a municipality in the district of Stade, in Lower Saxony, Germany. History It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, whi ...

Islands

* Krautsand * Gauensieker Sand * Asseler Sand

External links

Web presence for Kehdingen

Krimiland Kehdingen-Oste

Ferienland Kehdingen
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