Stade (region)

High-Bailiwick of Stade (1823–1885)
Governorate of Stade (1885–1978)
Landdrostei Stade (1823–1885)
Regierungsbezirk Stade (1885–1978)
also Bezirk Stade
Region of
the Kingdom of Hanover (1823–1866)
the Kingdom of Prussia (1866–1918)
the Free State of Prussia (1918-1946/1947)
Lower Saxony (1946–1978)
1823–1978
CapitalStade
Area 
• 1823
7,025 km2 (2,712 sq mi)
• 1890
6,786 km2 (2,620 sq mi)
• 1969
6,850 km2 (2,640 sq mi)
Population 
• 1823
208,251
• 1890
338,225
• 1939
462,592
• 1969
627,000
Government
 • Typeregional administration
High-Bailiff (German: Landdrost, 1823–1885), Governor (Regierungspräsident, 1885–1978) 
• 1823–1841
Engelbert Johann Marschalck [nds]
• 1863–1872
August Theodor Braun [de]
• 1922–1933
Hermann Rose [de]
• 1950–1954
Walter Harm [de]
• 1958–1959
Curt Miehe [de]
• 1959–1973
Helmut-Ernst Miericke [nds]
Legislatureno autonomous legislation, power only deriving from the state government
Historical era19th and 20th century
1823
• annexed by Prussia
20 September 1866
• reorganisation acc.
    to Prussian standards
1 April 1885
• governor dismissed by
    Gauleiter O. Telschow
 - Nazi control intensified
    by subjection to Nazi
    Gau Eastern Hanover
1933


1935
• U.S. (partially until 1947)
    and British occupation
1945–1949
• part of Lower Saxony
    since its foundation,
    entailed by the official
    abolition of Prussia on
1/22 November 1946

25 February 1947
• merged into the
    Lunenburg Region
31 January 1978
Political subdivisionsbailiwicks (Amt/Ämter, sg./pl., 1823–1885), thereafter rural districts (Landkreis[e], sg.[pl.]) and urban districts (Geestemünde [de] 1913–24, Lehe [de] 1913–24, Wesermünde 1924–47, Cuxhaven 1937–77)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bremen-Verden
Lüneburg (region) Image missing
Today part ofGermany

The Stade Region emerged in 1823 by an administrative reorganisation of the dominions of the Kingdom of Hanover, a sovereign state, whose then territory is almost completely part of today's German federal state of Lower Saxony.[1] Until 1837 the Kingdom of Hanover was ruled in personal union by the Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The official title of the Region was High-Bailiwick of Stade (1823–1885; German: Landdrostei Stade) and then Governorate of Stade (1885–1978; German: Regierungsbezirk Stade). The High-Bailiwick of Stade, being a mere administrative unit of the integrated Kingdom of Hanover, was named after and seated in Stade, Bremen-Verden's former capital, taking over its staff, installations and buildings. The territory of the Stade Region was combined by the territories of the Land of Hadeln, the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛːɐ̯dən]), all Hanoverian dominions, which were collectively administered. The territory belonging to the Stade Region covered about the triangular area between the mouths of the rivers Elbe and Weser to the North Sea and today's German federal states of Hamburg and Bremen.[2] This area included about today's Lower Saxon counties (German: Landkreis or Kreis) of Cuxhaven (southernly), Osterholz, Rotenburg upon Wümme, Stade and Verden as well as of the Bremian exclave of the city of Bremerhaven.

  1. ^ The reorganisation's legal basis was the Ordinance of High-Bailiwicks (Landdrostei-Ordnung).
  2. ^ For a map of the High-Bailiwick of Stade see here Landdrostei Stade