Osterstade

Lower Weser area with Osterstade at the bottom right

Osterstade is an area in Lower Saxony , located on the eastern bank of the Lower Weser and characterized by marshland .

geography

Osterstade at the end of the 18th century

The Brockhaus defines Osterstade as the original "Oststedingen" (the eastern part of the area inhabited by the Stedinger ). Whereby the word Osterstade is only the Low German name for Upper German: "Eastern shore / shore".

The Osterstader Marsch is located in the districts of Cuxhaven and Osterholz and borders in the north on Landwürden and in the east on Bremen Switzerland , part of the Osterholzer Geest . It is divided into Norder-Osterstade and Süder-Osterstade. The first-mentioned part includes the places Büttel , Neuenlande , Rechtenfleth and Sandstedt as well as the districts Neuenlandermoor, Rechtenflether Moor, Rechtenflether Feldhof, Reepen and Sandstedter Moor. In Süder-Osterstade there are Offenwarden , Rechtebe , Wersabe ,Wurthfleth , Uthlede , Aschwarden , Rade , Hinnebeck and the districts Rechtsber Moor, Wersaber Moor, Cleve, Bruch and Hassel and the northern part of Meyenburg .

Like the marsh land dignities Vieland and parishes Lehe and Stotel was Easter Stade medieval Frisian populated. The name Osterstade is still in use today by water and dyke entertainment associations.

history

By 1212 at the latest, the villages of Osterstades joined the Stedinger peasant republic that was established west of the Weser . With the intention of collecting taxes in this area as well, the Bremen Archbishop Gerhard II proceeded extremely brutally. He had the entire population of Stedingen and Osterstade declared heretics by the Bremen Synod of Lent in 1230/31 and reached Pope Gregory IX with the most absurd accusations . permission to call a crusade .

The first crusade in 1233 was only successful in Osterstade because the peasantry from the western bank of the Weser, as well as the previously allied Bremen city republic, failed to meet their alliance obligations. During the 2nd crusade in 1234, the West Stedingers were defeated ( Stedinger War ; Battle of Altenesch ) and, like the Osterstader in the previous year, a large part of the population was murdered, expelled or robbed of their rights by the Archbishop's troops.

literature

Gravestone of the Neuleiningen master blacksmith Adam Fischer from "Osterstada" († 1594), cemetery of the Peterskirche (Sausenheim) , Rhineland-Palatinate

• Jens Schmeyers: The Stedinger Peasant Wars . True events and historical considerations. In memory of the Battle of Altenesch on May 27, 1234. Stedinger Verlag, Lemwerder 2004, ISBN 3-927697-38-9 .
• Heinz A. Pieken: The Osterstader March. Becoming and changing a cultural landscape. Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Bremen 1991, ISBN 3-88722-253-9 (also dissertation , University of Bremen 1990).
• Bernd Ulrich Hucker : The problem of rule and freedom in the regional communities and aristocratic rule of the Middle Ages in the Niederweser area. University of Education Westphalia-Lippe , Münster 1978 ( university thesis ; also dissertation , University of Education Westphalia-Lippe 1977).
• Johann Gottlieb Visbeck: The Nieder-Weser and Osterstade. Unchanged reprint of the 1798 edition. Schuster-Verlag , Leer 1978, ISBN 3-7963-0143-6 .

Web links

• Overview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Brockhaus-1911/A/Osterstade
2. ↑ Entertainment Association No. 78 Osterstade-Süd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.bauernkriege.de/Bauern Republik.html
4. ↑ http://www.eckhart.de/index.htm?bauer.htm

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '  N , 8 ° 32'  E