Steinau in the Land of Hadeln is a municipality in the
district of Cuxhaven, in
Lower Saxony,
Germany.
History
Steinau belongs to the
Land of Hadeln
Land Hadeln is a historic landscape and former administrative district in Northern Germany with its seat in Otterndorf on the Lower Elbe, the lower reaches of the River Elbe, in the Elbe-Weser Triangle between the estuaries of the Elbe and Wes ...
, first an exclave of the
younger Duchy of Saxony and after its de facto dynastic partition in 1296 of the
Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, established de jure in 1260. In 1728 Emperor
Charles VI enfeoffed the
George II Augustus and his
House of Hanover in
personal union with the reverted fief of Saxe-Lauenburg. By a redeployment of Hanoverian territories in 1731 the Hanoverian
Duchies of Bremen and Verden
), which is a public-law corporation established in 1865 succeeding the estates of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (established in 1397), now providing the local fire insurance in the shown area and supporting with its surplusses cultural effor ...
were conveyed the administration of the neighboured ''Land of Hadeln''. The
Kingdom of Hanover incorporated the ''Land of Hadeln'' in a
real union and its territory, including Steinau, became part of the new
Stade Region, established in 1823.
References
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