Stadt Stade

Klosteramt Stade-Agathenburg

Stade was settled in its current location during the 9th century. A castle was erected and a county emerged around it during the 10th century. Stade was granted city rights in 1209 and became an early member of the Hanseatic League. The entire county was acquired by the Archbishopric of Bremen in 1236, but the city itself retained an unusual degree of autonomy.

 

Within the city of Stade were two monasteries—St. Maria and St. Georg—that acquired secular control over territory outside of the city. I have identified several villages in the territory of the Marienkloster, but none in the territory of the Georgkloster. There are also several villages that I cannot definitively assign to either. For the moment, I have assigned them to the Marienkloster. Both were secularized by Sweden during the Thirty-Years War, at which time I place them both in Klostergericht Stade. In 1694, the Klostergericht was upgraded to a Klosteramt.

 

Southeast of the city, the village of Lieth appears to have constituted its own Gericht. In 1655, its name was changed to Agathenburg.