First Stader comparison

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Title page of the First Stade Comparison of 1654

The First Stade Settlement is an agreement between the Kingdom of Sweden and the city of Bremen , which ended the First Bremen-Swedish War on November 28, 1654 . It was completed in Stade as the administrative seat of the Duchy of Bremen .

prehistory

Efforts by the city of Bremen to expand its sphere of influence (see: Dominium Visurgis ) failed, although Butjadingen and Stadland on the left bank of the Weser and areas around Stuckenborstel to Rotenburg (Wümme) were conquered or acquired before 1646 . Only the Wümmewiesen and Hemelingen remained with Bremen.

In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia finally led to the secularization of the Archbishopric of Bremen , which came to Sweden as the Duchy of Bremen together with the likewise secularized Duchy of Verden as the territory of Bremen-Verden with its administrative headquarters in Stade. The city of Bremen lost Bederkesa , Lehe and other rural areas. Bremen had received the imperial immediacy confirmed by the Linz diploma in 1646 as an immediately free imperial city , but this was not included in the peace treaty and Sweden did not recognize imperial directness.

In 1653 Bremen wanted to have the Westphalian Peace Treaty interpreted in its favor at the Reichstag in Regensburg . The Field Marshal and Swedish Governor General of Bremen and Verden Hans Christoph von Königsmarck took in 1654 to attack this as an opportunity Bremen. He occupied land areas of Bremen and there was fighting over the Burger Schanze in Bremen-Nord. Sweden got into a difficult political situation and agreed to a ceasefire .

The comparison

In the First Stade settlement it was therefore regulated on November 28, 1654 that the parish of Lehe and the lordship (office) of Bederkesa remained with Sweden. Blumenthal and Vegesack remained in Bremen, but Bremen had to cede the sovereign rights to Sweden. Sweden still did not recognize the imperial immediacy of Bremen. The Empire state of Bremen remained open. After this comparison, Bremen had to pay homage to the Swedish crown . This homage took place on December 6, 1654.

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