Stubben is a village and a former 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 ...

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. Since 1 November 2011, it is part of the municipality

Beverstedt Beverstedt is a municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km southeast of Bremerhaven, and 40 km north of Bremen. Beverstedt belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In ...

. The name means, roughly 'tree stump.' The area of Stubben was once a forest area full of deer and other wildlife. Archaeological finds show that at least 10,000 years ago,

reindeer The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, taiga, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only re ...

hunters once lived in this region, and large stone tombs and finds from the

Neolithic period The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wid ...

indicate a continuous settlement since then. Stubben 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. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the

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, 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. In 1807 the ephemeric

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annexed the Duchy, before

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annexed it in 1810. 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 Stubben, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823. The town really began to grow when Stubben station was built as part of the Bremen–Bremerhaven line, allowing the residents to get to the nearby cities where they worked. Stubben grew and merged with the former independent communities of Adelstedt, Brunshausen, and Elfershude and with the Erbhof Plein, an area which previously belonged to neighbouring Bokel. The Stubben railway station eventually developed into a major transhipment point for livestock, timber, fertilizer and agricultural products. A dairy was built near the station in 1904 (today a concrete factory). Today the railway line is part of line RS 2 of the

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, running hourly between Bremerhaven-Lehe and

Twistringen Twistringen is a town in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located approximately 30 km northeast of Diepholz, and 30 km southwest of Bremen. The source of the Delme river is located in the city. The most important a ...

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and

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 ...

are within an hour away by train. Together with the importance of highway 134, with the

Hagen and the

Bundesautobahn 27 branches off the A 7 at Autobahndreieck Walsrode to the northwest, crossing A 1 at the Bremer Kreuz and continuing eastwards of Bremen, toward Cuxhaven. It also serves as European route E234, a B Class road on the International ...

, the town is the hub of many convenient transport links. The Stubben community has about 1,600 inhabitants and belongs to the

municipality. Today the town boasts a butcher shop, a doctor's office, a pharmacy and a restaurant with rooms, a bowling alley, a hairdresser salon, a flower shop, a video store, a gift shop, a

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service and a car repair shop with petrol station. For leisure, there are sports facilities including a gym, football field and tennis courts. The town also has a voluntary fire brigade. Stubben has a seniors' meeting place and a youth centre. More shopping and cultural activities are only 4 km away in

, which is also easily accessible by bicycle. Schoolchildren are bused to Bokel and

(2 and 4 km away) for most of their studies.

References

{{authority control Cuxhaven (district) Villages in Lower Saxony