Mittelstenahe Explained

Image Coa:	DEU Mittelstenahe COA.svg
Coordinates:	53.6506°N 9.0364°W
Image Plan:	Mittelstenahe in CUX.svg
State:	Niedersachsen
District:	Cuxhaven
Samtgemeinde:	Börde Lamstedt
Elevation:	15
Area:	33.68
Postal Code:	21770
Area Code:	04771, 04773
Licence:	CUX
Gemeindeschlüssel:	03 3 52 036
Divisions:	3 Ortsteile
Website:	www.mittelstenahe.de
Mayor:	Günter Helck

Mittelstenahe is a municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

History

Mittelstenahe belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180. The farmers were tithing to the Himmelpforten Convent,^[1] secularised in 1647. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown^[2] - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712–1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown.^[3]

After a Prussian and then French occupation from 1806 to 1810, the ephemeric Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Duchy, before France annexed it with effect of 1 January 1811.^[4] In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which - after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 - incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Mittelstenahe, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.

Notes and References

Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 8. No ISBN.
Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 57. No ISBN.
Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 56. No ISBN.
Klaus Isensee, Die Region Stade in westfälisch-französischer Zeit 1810–1813: Studien zum napoleonischen Herrschaftssystem unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Stadt Stade und des Fleckens Harsefeld, Stade: Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 2003, simultaneously: Hanover, Univ., Diss., 1991, (=Einzelschriften des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatvereins; vol. 33), p. 100. No ISBN.