Stade (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (, ) is a city in

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in northern

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. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the

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() which bears its name. It is located roughly to the west of

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and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region. Within the area of the city are the urban districts of Bützfleth, Hagen, Haddorf and Wiepenkathen, each of which have a council () of their own with some autonomous decision-making rights. Stade is located in the lower regions of the river

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. It is also on the

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History

The first human settlers came to the Stade area in 30,000 BC. Swedish and Danish

Viking Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

s under

Eric the Victorious Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: ''Eiríkr inn sigrsæli'', Modern Swedish: ''Erik Segersäll''; c. 945 – c. 995) was a Swedish monarch as of around 970. Although there were earlier Swedish kings, he is the first Swedish king in a consecutive re ...

conquered Stade and looted the town during the 990s. Many prominent

Saxons The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

were taken back as slaves by Swedish troops. A majority of Vikings withdrew after taking plenty of plunder. A minor part of the Swedish and Danish forces stayed but were later defeated by reinforcements sent by the emperor. Since 1180 Stade 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 early 1208 King

Valdemar II of Denmark Valdemar II Valdemarsen (28 June 1170 – 28 March 1241), later remembered as Valdemar the Victorious () and Valdemar the Conqueror, was King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241. In 1207, Valdemar invaded and conquered Bishopric of L� ...

and his troops conquered Stade. In August Valdemar II's cousin being in enmity with the king, the then Prince-Archbishop

Valdemar Waldemar, Valdemar, Valdimar, or Woldemar is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements ''wald-'' "power", "brightness" and ''-mar'' "fame". The name is considered the equivalent of the Latvian name Valdemārs, the Estonian name ...

reconquered the city only to lose it soon after again to Valdemar II. In 1209 Emperor

Otto IV Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218. Otto spent most of his early life in England and France. He was a follower of his uncle Richard the Lionheart, who made him Count of Poitou in 1196 ...

persuaded his ally Valdemar II to withdraw into the north of the Elbe, and the deposed Prince-Archbishop Valdemar took Stade. On 2 May 1209 Otto IV granted important

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

() to Stade. Otto IV confirmed the burghers to be personally free and recognised them constituting a political entity of their own law, the ''burgenses and optimi cives'' of Stade. Property within the municipal boundaries could not be subjected to feudal overlordship and was to be freely inherited without feudal claims to reversion. Fair juridical procedures were constituted and maximal fines fixed. Otto IV obliged himself to prevent burghers from being taken as hostages and to liberate captured burghers. After Otto IV had changed his mind and reinvested Prince-Archbishop Valdemar with the See in 1211, Valdemar II recaptured Stade. In 1213 Otto's elder brother Count Palatine

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

of the

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, reconquered Stade for the Prince-Archbishop. In 1215 Henry repelled another Danish attack on Stade. In the winter of 1216 Valdemar II and his Danish troops, unable to take the city of Stade, ravaged the

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. From then on Stade remained a part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Braun Stade UBHD

In medieval times (from the 13th century to the late 17th century), Stade was a prominent member of the

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, but was later eclipsed by

. In 1611 the city signed a contract with

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Jews, allowing the foundation of a community. In 1613, Johann Friedrich, Administrator of the Prince-Archbishopric, followed by settling

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Jews in the city, but during the turmoil of Catholic conquest and Lutheran reconquest the last archival traces of Jews date from 1630. In 1648, by the

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, the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen underwent a constitutional transformation from a

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into a monarchy, 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 ...

''. The duchy and the neighboured ''

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'', colloquially referred to as

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, were granted by the ''Treaty of Westphalia'' as an appanage to the Swedish crown. Stade, already under Swedish occupation since 1645, was a part of the Swedish province of Bremen-Verden-Wildeshausen from 1645 to 1712, and some of the buildings built by the Swedes are still in use today.

Swedish fortress

Stade's heyday lasted until the

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. In 1628 Tilly conquered the town; shortly thereafter,

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took possession of it until 1636. After a period of Danish occupation, Sweden finally recaptured it in 1643 and was also officially granted possession of it, together with the

Archbishopric of Bremen The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen () was an ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Duchy of Bremen (). The prince-ar ...

, in the

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. Two-thirds of the town were razed in the great town fire on 26 May 1659. The town was rebuilt again to the same plan. From 1675 to 1676, in the

Swedish-Brandenburg War The Scanian War (; ; ; ) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Electorate of Brandenburg, Brandenburg and Swedish Empire, Sweden. It was fought from 1675 to 1679 mainly on Scanian soil, in the former Danish ...

, Swedish Stade was conquered during a campaign by Denmark-Norway and several states of the

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and remained in allied hands until the end of that war in 1679. Stade, as the headquarters of the Swedish Stadhalter, was besieged from early April 1676 to 13 Aug 1676. In the wake of the

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in 1679, Stade was once again awarded to Sweden. The Elbe customs station near Stade, in Brunshausen at the mouth of the Schwinge, played special role in trading on the River Elbe from the period of the archbishopric. In 1663, the Swedes stationed an Elbe customs frigate as a permanent patrol ship. This arrangement continued to exist under various rulers until 1850 and the customs station on the Schwinge fieldworks itself existed until 1865.Richard Graewe: ''Die zweihundertjährige Geschichte der Elb-Zoll-Fregatte zu Brunshausen und ihrer Kommandanten 1650–1850.'' Selbstverlag des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatvereins, Stade 1963 Swedish sovereignty ended in 1712. Danish troops besieged the town in the

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and shelled it from 29 August to 7 September 1712 that destroyed 152 houses, a quarter of the built-up area. During the Swedish times Stade was the capital of the province.

Danish rule

In 1712 Denmark-Norway conquered Stade and the whole of Bremen-Verden. Stade remained Bremen-Verden's capital also after the Danes ceded it to the

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in 1715. When in 1823 Bremen-Verden was replaced by new administrative forms, Stade continued to be the capital of the Stade region. In 1355 and in 1712, Stade suffered from the plague epidemic, which killed at least 30–40% of the city's population.

Early modern and modern period

In 1757 following the French Invasion of Hanover, the Army of Observation under

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, and the

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(government) took shelter in Stade. Cumberland prepared to defend the town before agreeing the

Convention of Klosterzeven The Convention of Klosterzeven (or the Convention of Kloster-Zeven, ) was a convention signed on 10 September 1757 at Klosterzeven between France and the Electorate of Hanover during the Seven Years' War that led to Hanover's withdrawal from the ...

which brought about a temporary

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. By the end of the 17th century Ashkenazi Jews reappeared in Stade. In 1842 the

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granted equal rights to Jews and promoted to build up Jewish congregations and a regional superstructure (

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nate) within a nationwide scope. The Jews in Stade regarded this a progress and a burden alike, because prior they had not employed any rabbi and religion teacher due to the implied financial burden. In 1845 – according to the new law – a land-rabbinate, under Land-Rabbi Joseph Heilbut, was established in the city, serving 16 Jewish congregations, which were founded over the years in the whole Stade Region, with altogether 1,250 Jews in 1864 (highest number ever reached). The local authorities now requested, that the Jewish congregations establish synagogues and Jewish education for the pupils. Stade Synagogue 1

In 1849 Stade's synagogue opened, but had to close due to financial restrictions in 1908. And a teacher for

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and Hebrew was employed (after 1890 Stade's community couldn't afford a teacher any more). From 1903 on the Jewish community of Stade was granted public subsidies to continue functioning. The Stade Region stayed a Jewish diaspora, and from 1860 on Stade's land-rabbinate was never staffed again, but served alternately by one of the other three Hanoverian land-rabbinates. Labour migration and emigration to urban centres outside the Stade Region and Jewish demography rather lead to a reduction of the number of Jews in the ''Stade Region'' (786 in 1913, 716 in 1928). However, most of the remaining Jews were deported during the Nazi reign. During World War II, Stade remained completely untouched by allied bombings. In past decades, Stade has economically benefited significantly from the presence of chemical and aerospace industry at the

river, most notably

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and

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. Also by the Elbe at Stade is the decommissioned

Stade Nuclear Power Plant Stade nuclear power plant (, KKS) operated from 1972 to 2003 in Bassenfleth close to the Schwinge (Elbe), Schwinge river mouth into the Elbe river. It was the first nuclear plant shut down after Germany's Nuclear power phase-out, nuclear phase out ...

, which was connected to the power grid from 1972 to 2003. By the time the plant was brought offline, it was Germany's second oldest reactor. Following Germany's 2002 decision to phase out nuclear power generation, Stade was the first German plant to be affected; it was closed down permanently on 14 November 2003. Close to the former nuclear plant there is an inactive oil-fired power station, the Schilling Power Station.

Sights

The Old Town of Stade is home to a variety of notable historic buildings; among the most notable are the St. Cosmae et Damiani Lutheran Church, the Wilhadi Lutheran Church, the city hall, the and the . Located near to Stade are the gigantic pylons of Elbe Crossing 1 and Elbe Crossing 2; the Elbe Crossing 2 pylons are the tallest in Europe and the sixth-tallest in the world.

Transport

In late 2007, line S3 of the

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was extended to Stade. Trains depart

Stade station Stade (German: ''Bahnhof'' or ''Haltestelle Stade'') is a railway station which opened in 1881 Dagmar Müller-Staats, "Zeitsprünge Neu Wulmstorf", p. 16. and is located in the town of Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. Stade station is the terminus ...

every 20 minutes (at peak times), arriving at

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in roughly one hour.

Local industry

Firms with notable locations in the area include: *

, chemicals * Airbus Deutschland GmbH,

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E.ON E.ON SE is a European multinational electric utility company based in Essen, Germany. It operates as one of the world's largest investor-owned electric utility service providers. The name originates from the Latin word '' aeon'', derived from ...

, power plant *

Air Liquide Air Liquide S.A. ( , ; literally " liquid air") is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, after Linde it is ...

, industrial gases *

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, industrial gases * Aluminium Oxid Stade GmbH,

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* Stähler Agrochemie,

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and

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* PROKON Nord Energiesysteme GmbH,

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s and

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* Lindemann (Bauunternehmen), construction

Twin towns – sister cities

Stade is twinned with: *

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, Israel *

Gołdap Gołdap ( or variant ''Goldapp''; ) is a spa town in northeastern Poland, in the region of Masuria, seat of Gołdap County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is located on the Gołdapa River, between the Szeskie Hills, Gołdap Lake and th ...

, Poland *

Karlshamn Karlshamn () is a locality and the seat of Karlshamn Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden. It had 13,576 inhabitants in 2015, out of 31,846 in the municipality. Karlshamn received a Royal Charter and city privileges in 1664, when King Charles ...

, Sweden

Notable people

* Peter von Sivers (1674–1740), Russian naval officer * August Karl von Goeben (1816–1880), Prussian general. *

Max von Bahrfeldt Max Ferdinand Bahrfeldt (), ennobled as von Bahrfeldt in 1913 (6 February 1856 – 11 April 1936), was a royal Prussian General of the Infantry (Germany), General of the Infantry, a local historian, and a numismatist of world renown. In the anglo ...

(1856–1936), Prussian general of the infantry, stationed at Stade. *

Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause (27 July 1859, Stade – 1 June 1942, Domjüch/Neustrelitz) was a German physician, botanist and mycologist. He studied medicine and botany in Berlin, where in 1881 he received his medical doctorate. From 1882 to 1893 ...

(1859–1942), physician,

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and

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Jost Fitschen Jost Fitschen (1 January 1869, in Brest (Lower Saxony) – 26 January 1947, in Hamburg-Altona) was a German botanist known for his work in the field of dendrology. Beginning in 1889, he worked as a schoolteacher in the town of Geversdorf, after ...

(1869–1947), botanist known for his work in the field of

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Ernst-Eberhard Hell Ernst-Eberhard Hell (19 September 1887 – 15 September 1973) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He commanded several divisions and later an army corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak ...

(1887–1973), general in

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during World War II * Eberhard von Koerber (1938–2017), manager and on the Board of

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Stefan Aust Stefan Aust (; born 1 July 1946) is a German journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading newspaper since 2014 and the paper's editor until ...

(born 1946), journalist, chief editor of

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in 1994–2008 * Carsten Eggers (born 1957), sculptor and painter *

Angela Denoke Angela Denoke (born 27 November 1961) is a German opera singer (soprano). Born in Stade, she studied at the University of Music and Drama of Hamburg. Her first contract was at the Theater Ulm (1992–1996), where she sang Fiordiligi (''Così ...

(born 1961), opera singer * Juliette Schoppmann (born 1980), singer

Aristocracy

Henrik Horn Henrik Horn af Marienborg (22 May 1618 – 22 February 1693) was a Swedish nobleman (''friherre''), admiral and member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Biography Henrik Horn was born at Stade in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, today in Lowe ...

(1618–1693), a Swedish nobleman (

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), admiral and member of the

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* Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662–1728), countess, mistress of

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. * Amalia von Königsmarck (1663–1740), Swedish noble,

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painter, actor and poet *

Philip Christoph von Königsmarck Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck (4 March 1665 – 2 July 1694), also spelled Philipp, was a Swedes, Swedish count and soldier. He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Sophia Dorothea, Princess of Celle, the wife of Duke Ge ...

(1665–1694), a Swedish count and soldier. *

Ulrich de Maizière Karl Ernst Ulrich de Maizière (; 24 February 1912 – 26 August 2006) was a German general. He served in the army of three German states: the '' Reichswehr'' of the Weimar Republic, the ''Wehrmacht'' of Nazi Germany, and the German Army of W ...

(1912–2006), general, created the ''" Innere Führung"'' in the Bundeswehr

Sport

* Dirk Dammann (born 1967), footballer, played 260 games *

Andrasch Starke Andrasch Starke (born 4 January 1974, in Germany) is a jockey in international Thoroughbred horse racing. Starke began racing at age fifteen as an amateur and since turning professional has won the German riding championship six times. He has com ...

(born 1974), jockey, 9 x German flat racing Champion Jockey champion * Tabea Kemme (born 1991), footballer who has played 154 and 47 games for Germany women * Marnon Busch (born 1994), footballer, played over 260 games

Gallery

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Athenaeum Stade The Athenaeum Stade is a ''Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium'', or grammar school, in the Hanseatic city of Stade. History Middle Age and early modern period In a written source from 1393, students of St. George's Premonstratensian monastery are me ...

References

External links

Official website

Official tourism organisation
Ge/En/Swe *
Culture and convention center in Stade

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