| High-Bailiwick of Stade (1823–1885) Governorate of Stade (1885–1978) Landdrostei Stade (1823–1885) Regierungsbezirk Stade (1885–1978) also Bezirk Stade | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
| Capital | Stade | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| • Type | regional administration | ||||||||
| High-Bailiff (German: Landdrost, 1823–1885), Governor (Regierungspräsident, 1885–1978) | |||||||||
• 1823–1841 | Engelbert Johann Marschalck | ||||||||
• 1863–1872 | August Theodor Braun | ||||||||
• 1922–1933 | Hermann Rose | ||||||||
• 1950–1954 | Walter Harm | ||||||||
• 1958–1959 | Curt Miehe | ||||||||
• 1959–1973 | Helmut-Ernst Miericke | ||||||||
| Legislature | no autonomous legislation, power only deriving from the state government | ||||||||
| Historical era | 19th 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 | ||||||||
| 1/22 November 1946 25 February 1947 | |||||||||
| 31 January 1978 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | bailiwicks (Amt/Ämter, sg./pl., 1823–1885), thereafter rural districts (Landkreis[e], sg.[pl.]) and urban districts (Geestemünde 1913–24, Lehe 1913–24, Wesermünde 1924–47, Cuxhaven 1937–77) | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
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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.
- ^ The reorganisation's legal basis was the Ordinance of High-Bailiwicks (Landdrostei-Ordnung).
- ^ For a map of the High-Bailiwick of Stade see here Landdrostei Stade