Stedingen

Stedingen ( Steding Erland ) is an area in Oldenburg Weser march and today comprises mainly the territory of the municipalities Lemwerder and Berne, in Lower Saxony Wesermarsch. Stedingen was the first peasant republic, which acquired the expanding county Oldenburg in the 13th century.

Geography

In the late Middle Ages and the early modern period Stedingen included not only the field today, the former four march bailiwicks Moorriem, Oldenbrook, Strückhausen and Hammelwarden the Bailiwick of desert land ( Stedingerwüste or Wösting '), which located beyond the Weser Easter Stade and probably also for the then already existing part later to become the bailiwick district welding. Since Stedingen was settled only after the end of the cantonal constitution, it has a Gau called Stedingen probably never existed. The territory of the later Stedingen that territory was in the early and high Middle Ages, part of the Saxon Largaus, low - Stedingen of Ammergaus.

While speaking in Latin documents from a " populus Stedingorum Rustringiae " is mentioned, but so are not the Saxon Stedinger from the areas south of the barn Andes meant but Frisian Butjadinger barn and the other from the rüstringischen heartlands. A spiritual relationship of the Stedinger with their Frisian neighbors consisted in that the Stedingers to the beginning of the 13th century fought rights that were comparable in the neighboring republics Frisian farm with them.

The areas southwest of the barn Andes and northwest of the Hunte were formerly low Stedingen called the areas southeast of the Supreme Hunte things. The current Steding Erland limited to the former Supreme things; it is bounded by the rivers Ochtum, Weser and Hunte, and on the south by the (almost complete reclaimed ) bog north of Hude and Bookholzberg. It is bordered by several small rivers, the Berne, Hörspe and the Old Pickled, flows through and touches the south the Geestrand. The march soil is fertile and is primarily used as crossed by drainage ditches grassland. The area is prone to flooding and protected by dikes along the rivers.

Today's Stedingen covers the south-east of the district Weser march, but stands out as a piece of countryside in the county of Oldenburg in where the Geestrand and thus the limit of the Weser Marsch something south of the border between the counties of runs.