Stadland is a municipality in the district of

Wesermarsch Wesermarsch is a '' Kreis'' (district) in the northwestern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. Neighboring are (from the east clockwise) the districts of Cuxhaven and Osterholz, the city of Bremen in the state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the urban ...

, in

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. It is situated on the left bank of the

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, approx. 32 km northeast of

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, and 42 km northwest of

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

. On the west side Stadland bordered to the

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. Its seat is in the village Rodenkirchen, which is also part of this municipality as the villages Schwei, Seefeld and Kleinensiel. There are also many little ''Bauernschaften'' (

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) in Stadland. In 1974 Stadland was built in cause of the ''Niedersächsische Gemeindereform''. The former municipalities Rodenkirchen, Schwei and Seefeld and also Kleinensiel, a part of the former municipality Esenshamm (now:

Nordenham Nordenham () is a town in the Wesermarsch district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located at the mouth (on the west bank) of the Weser river on the Butjadingen peninsula on the coast of the North Sea. The seaport city of Bremerhaven is located ...

) were built up to the new municipality Stadland.

Division of the municipality

* Rodenkirchen is with approx. 4,000 inhabitants the largest place of the municipality as well as training and sports center and seat of the local administration. Each year at the end of September the Roonkarker Mart, a

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take place and attract many visitors. * Schwei has got round about 1,500 inhabitants. Among the former municipality Schwei rank the ''Bauernschaften'' Norderschwei, Kötermoor, Süderschwei, Schweieraußendeich, Schweieraltendeich, Schweierfeld and Schwei-West. * Seefeld was built in 1643 in cause of building

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and land reclamation. The place is particularly coined by the agriculture. The cultural center forms the ''Seefelder Mühle'', a

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, the landmark of the place, where over 50 meetings take place annually. * Kleinensiel with approx. 800 inhabitants is the smallest village of the municipality. In the media is the place admits by the close convenient nuclear power station Unterweser. In 2004 the Wesertunnel was finished. The next firm land traversing across the Weser is not before

Partnership

Stadland has a Partnership with the District du Petit Caux (

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). This partnership is affirmed by mutual attendance of grades and private people in each year.

Personalities

* Alma Rogge, German writer * Amanda Jürgens, German writer * Franz Radziwill, German painter *

Jakob Schipper Jakob Markus Schipper (19 July 1842 Augustgroden (today part of Stadland) - 20 January 1915 Vienna) was a German-Austrian philologist and English scholar (german: Professor für Anglistik). Biography He was the son of a farmer. He studied modern ...

, German-Austrian philologist

Gallery

Image:Einfahrt-Wesertunnel.jpg,

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of the Weser River (Kleinensiel) Image:Friesendenkmal.jpg, Friesendenkmal -

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in Rodenkirchen Image:Longir-Halle.jpg, Markthalle in Rodenkirchen Image:Roma losbude.png, Roonkarker Mart, a yearly

in Rodenkirchen at the end of September

References

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