Selsingen Explained

Image Coa:DEU Selsingen COA.svg
Coordinates:53.3667°N 22°W
Image Plan:Selsingen in ROW.svg
State:Niedersachsen
District:Rotenburg (Wümme)
Samtgemeinde:Selsingen
Elevation:27
Area:41.86
Postal Code:27446
Area Code:04284
Licence:ROW
Gemeindeschlüssel:03 3 57 043
Divisions:6
Mayor:Reinhard Aufdemkamp
Party:CDU

Selsingen is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 15km (09miles) southeast of Bremervörde, and 45km (28miles) northeast of Bremen, and is twinned with the English village of Sawston in Cambridgeshire.

Selsingen belonged - as to its government - to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180.[1] In religious respect, however, Selsingen formed part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Verden until after 1566 its incumbent bishops lost papal recognition, except of a last Catholic bishop from 1630 to 1631, respectively.[1] In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1823 the Duchy was abolished and its territory became part of the Stade Region.

Selsingen is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Selsingen.

Notes and References

  1. Michael Schütz, „Die Konsolidierung des Erzstiftes unter Johann Rode“, in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.) on behalf of the Landschaftsverband der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol. I 'Vor- und Frühgeschichte' (1995;), vol. II 'Mittelalter (einschl. Kunstgeschichte)' (1995;), vol. III 'Neuzeit' (2008;), (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vols. 7–9), vol. II: pp. 263–278, here pp. 270seq. .