Bevern () is a municipality in the
District of Holzminden,
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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. It is the administrative seat of the ''
Samtgemeinde
A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division) ...
'' ("collective municipality") of
Bevern.
Bevern lies on the
Weser
The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports o ...
river near its confluence with the
Beverbach tributary, located between the
Burgberg,
Solling and
Vogler hill ranges of the
Weser Uplands. The municipal area comprises the villages of Bevern proper, Forst, Dölme, Lobach, Lütgenade, and Reileifzen.
The
Saxon
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...
settlement of ''Byueran'' was first mentioned in a register of
Corvey Abbey in 822. The construction of a church was documented in 1501; it was consecrated by the
Cologne
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archbishop
Hermann IV of Hesse in 1506.
The community is chiefly known for Bevern Castle (''Schloss Bevern''), a
Renaissance
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palace built as a manor house from 1603 to 1612. Purchased by the
Welf dukes of
Brunswick-Lüneburg during the
Thirty Years' War
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in 1633, the building served as the residence of a cadet line, known as
Brunswick-Bevern, from 1667 until the late 18th century.
References
External links
Bevern Palace
Holzminden (district)
Duchy of Brunswick
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