Bad Bederkesa
Ortsteil of Geestland in Lower Saxony, Germany
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::summary Ortsteil of Geestland in Lower Saxony, Germany ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox German location"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Ortsteil |
| Town | Geestland |
| image_coa | Wappen Bad Bederkesa.png |
| coordinates | |
| image_photo | Aerial photograph 400D 2012 05 28 9089 DxO.jpg |
| image_caption | Aerial view with the Lake Bederkesa |
| image_plan | Beers in de Gemeen Geestland.svg |
| state | Niedersachsen |
| district | Cuxhaven |
| elevation | 9 |
| area | 43.17 |
| population | 5227 |
| Stand | 2013-12-31 |
| postal_code | 27624 |
| area_code | 04745 |
| licence | CUX |
| website | geestland.eu |
| :: |
|type = Ortsteil |Town = Geestland |image_coa = Wappen Bad Bederkesa.png |coordinates = |image_photo = Aerial photograph 400D 2012 05 28 9089 DxO.jpg |image_caption = Aerial view with the Lake Bederkesa |image_plan = Beers in de Gemeen Geestland.svg |state = Niedersachsen |district = Cuxhaven |elevation = 9 |area = 43.17 |population = 5227 |Stand = 2013-12-31 |postal_code = 27624 |area_code = 04745 |licence = CUX |website = geestland.eu
Bad Bederkesa (; ) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2015 it is part of the town of Geestland. It is situated approximately 20 km northeast of Bremerhaven, and 30 km southeast of Cuxhaven. Bad Bederkesa was the seat of the former Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bederkesa, an administrative division consisting of several component municipalities.
History
Bad Bederkesa belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (est. as principality of imperial immediacy in 1180). The Knights of Bederkesa, like all the place, had been struck by the plague in 1349/1350, completely extinguishing many knightly family lines. The declining knightly family dropped deep into debt, and – having already sold many a possession – had even pawned half the say in the Bailiwick of Bederkesa (Amt Bederkesa) to the aspiring .
They again lost this pawn to the city of Bremen, when in 1381 its troops stopped the three Mandelsloh brothers in their attempt to leverage influence from lending to Prince-Archbishop Albert II into territorial power. The Mandelslohs and other robber barons from the Prince-Bishopric of Verden and the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen ravaged burghers of the city of Bremen and people in the entire prince-archbishopric.
In 1381 the city's troops successfully ended the brigandage and captured the and the pertaining bailiwick. Thus Bremen gained its foothold as to uphold peace and order in its forecourt on the lower Weser course. In 1386 the city of Bremen became the liege lord of the noble families, holding the estates of and Elmlohe, previously vassals of the Knights of Bederkesa.
In 1411 the jointly ruling dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg, father Eric IV and his sons Eric V and John IV, pawned their share in the Vogtei over the Bederkesa Bailiwick and in the castle to the Senate of Bremen including all "they have in the jurisdictions in the Frisian Land of Wursten and in , which belongs to the afore-mentioned castle and Vogtei". Their share in jurisdiction, Vogtei and castle had been acquired from the plague-stricken Knights of Bederkesa. In 1421, Bremen acquired also the remaining half in the say of the Bederkesa Knights including their remaining share in the Bederkesa Castle.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Burg_Bederkesa_2011_Nr._3.jpg" caption="Stade Region]], established in 1823."] ::
References
References
- Bernd Ulrich Hucker, „Die landgemeindliche Entwicklung in Landwürden, Kirchspiel Lehe und Kirchspiel Midlum im Mittelalter“ (first presented in 1972 as a lecture at a conference of the historical work study association of the northern Lower Saxon Landschaftsverbände held at Oldenburg in Oldenburg), in: ''Oldenburger Jahrbuch'', vol. 72 (1972), pp. 1—22, here p. 22.
- Otto Edert, ''Neuenwalde: Reformen im ländlichen Raum'', Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010, p. 29. {{ISBN. 978-3-8391-9479-9.
- Otto Edert, ''Neuenwalde: Reformen im ländlichen Raum'', Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010, p. 30. {{ISBN. 978-3-8391-9479-9.
- In the [[Middle Low German]] original: „wes zee hebben an gherichte in Vreslande . . . unde an Lee, dat to deme vorscrevenen slote unde voghedie höret", here after Bernd Ulrich Hucker, „Die landgemeindliche Entwicklung in Landwürden, Kirchspiel Lehe und Kirchspiel Midlum im Mittelalter“ (first presented in 1972 as a lecture at a conference of the historical work study association of the northern Lower Saxon Landschaftsverbände held at Oldenburg in Oldenburg), in: ''Oldenburger Jahrbuch'', vol. 72 (1972), pp. 1—22, here p. 13.
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