Mittelnkirchen

Mittelnkirchen (German) Mittelskark (Low Saxon) Mittelnkirchen
Mittelnkirchen
Location of Mittelnkirchen within Stade district
Coordinates	53°33′N 9°37′E / 53.55°N 9.61667°E / 53.55; 9.61667Coordinates: 53°33′N 9°37′E / 53.55°N 9.61667°E / 53.55; 9.61667
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Stade
Municipal assoc.	Lühe
Mayor	Heinrich Schlichtmann (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	7.02 km2 (2.71 sq mi)
Elevation	0–2 m Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"
Population	1,013 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	144 /km2 (374 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	STD
Postal code	21720
Area code	04142
Website	www.luehe-online.de

Mittelnkirchen (in High German, in Low Saxon: Mittelskark) is a municipality in the district of Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany.

History

Mittelnkirchen belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In the mid-16th c. the inhabitants adopted Lutheranism. During the Leaguist occupation under Tilly (1628–1630), they suffered from attempts of reCatholicisation.

In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish – interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712–1715) – and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1807 the ephemeric Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the duchy, before France annexed it in 1810. In 1813 the duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which – after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 – incorporated the duchy in a real union and the ducal territory, including Mittelnkirchen, became part of the Stade Region, established in 1823.

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerungsfortschreibung" (in German). Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen. 31 December 2009. http://www1.nls.niedersachsen.de/statistik/html/parametereingabe.asp?DT=K1000014&CM=Bev%F6lkerungsfortschreibung.