Hansestadt buxtehude

It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and attached to the city's S-Bahn rapid transit network. Buxtehude is a medium-sized town and the second largest municipality in the Stade district Landkreis. To the west lie the towns of Horneburg and Stade and to the south there are a number of incorporated villages featuring mostly upscale housing; e.

Buxtehude bundesland

A settlement by the Este river is first recorded in The manor of "Buochstadon" was given to the Abbey of Magdeburg. Soon a wharf, "Hude", is established. In the settlement is mentioned as "Buchstadihude" in a reference to the success of trade from the quay. In the Duchy of Saxony , to which "Buchstadihude" belonged, was conquered and dissolved. Buxtehude became part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen , newly upgraded to imperial immediacy it became one of the many successor states of the Duchy of Saxony.

Nevertheless, ecclesiastically Buxtehude remained part of the Diocese of Verden until Catholicism was overthrown in the Reformation with that diocese remaining vacant since In two royal settlers founded a Benedictine monastery near the village.