Stinstedt

Stinstedt
Coat of arms
Stinstedt
Location of Stinstedt within Cuxhaven district
Coordinates: 53°39′41″N 08°58′16″E / 53.66139°N 8.97111°ECoordinates: 53°39′41″N 08°58′16″E / 53.66139°N 8.97111°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Cuxhaven
Municipal assoc.	Börde Lamstedt
Government
• Mayor	Herbert Pape
Area
• Total	30.1 km^2 (11.6 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	558
• Density	19/km^2 (48/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	21772
Dialling codes	04756
Vehicle registration	CUX
Website	www.stinstedt.de

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

History

Stinstedt belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180. The farmers were subject with their small tithe^[2] to the Himmelpforten Convent,^[3] 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^[4] - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712-1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown.^[5]

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.^[6] 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 Stinstedt, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.

References

1. Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen, 102 Bevölkerung - Basis Zensus 2011, Stand 31. Dezember 2015 (Tabelle K1020014)
2. The great tithe comprised 10% of the field crops, whereas the small tithe amounted to 10% of the lifestock and its products. Cf. Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 45. No ISBN.
3. 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.
4. Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 57. No ISBN.
5. 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.
6. 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.