Himmelpforten

Coordinates: 53°37′N 9°18′E / 53.617°N 9.300°E / 53.617; 9.300
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Himmelpforten
Himmelpoorten
Municipality
Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church
Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church
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Coat of arms of Himmelpforten
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Location of Himmelpforten within Stade district
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Himmelpforten is located in Germany
Himmelpforten
Himmelpforten
Himmelpforten is located in Lower Saxony
Himmelpforten
Himmelpforten
Coordinates: 53°37′N 9°18′E / 53.617°N 9.300°E / 53.617; 9.300
CountryGermany
StateLower Saxony
DistrictStade
Municipal assoc.Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
Subdivisions3
Government
 • MayorLothar Wille (SPD)
Area
 • Total18.29 km2 (7.06 sq mi)
Elevation
6 m (20 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total5,717
 • Density310/km2 (810/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
21709
Dialling codes04144
Vehicle registrationSTD
Websitewww.himmelpforten.de

Himmelpforten (Low Saxon: Himmelpoorten) is a municipality west of Hamburg (Germany) in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is located on the Horsterbeck [nds] creek. Himmelpforten is also part and the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Oldendorf-Himmelpforten.

History

Himmelpforten belonged to the

High German) respectively. The church of the nunnery was also used as a parish church. The nuns elected a provost, first mentioned in 1255 (a certain Albert), who had the privilege to nominate priests to the churches in the Himmelpforten parish, to wit the churches in Himmelpforten itself, in Großenwörden, Hechthausen and in Horst upon Oste [nds].[4]

Nunneries had traditionally been institutions to provide unmarried daughters of the better off, who couldn't be provided a husband befitting their social status or who didn't want to marry, with a decent livelihood.[5][6] So when an unmarried woman of that status joined a nunnery she would bestow earning assets (real estate) or – restricted to her lifetime – regular revenues paid by her male relatives, on the nunnery, making up in the former case part of the nunnery's estates.

In 1556 Himmelpforten's then Lutheran Provost Segebade II von der Hude

Frauenstift, literally in English: Damsels' foundation).[9]

During the

Catholicism or to leave the nunnery.[10]

No conversion had been recorded, so on 6 August 1630 all Lutheran conventuals left, the day before their announced forced eviction from the nunnery.

Jesuits, in order to finance them and their missioning in the course of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Archbishopric.[12]
The expelled conventuals were denied restitution of the real estate which they bestowed on the nunnery when they had entered it.

After the Leaguist troops left Himmelpforten, the Lutheran conventuals returned and elected a new provost in 1638, Casper Schulte.

Christina of Sweden promised Himmelpforten's nunnery and its estates to Count Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt as a fief heritable in the male line (Mannlehen).[14]

On 30 July 1651 Lewenhaupt was officially invested with the nunnery,

Amt Himmelpforten, seated in Himmelpforten.[17]

In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the

Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown[17] - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712-1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown.[18] After a Prussian and then French occupation from 1806 to 1810, the ephemeric Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Duchy in 1810, replacing the Amt Himmelpforten by the Canton of Stade and Himmelpforten,[19] established on 1 September 1810 and seated in Stade.[20] With effect of 1 January 1811 France annexed all the South Elbian German coast and its hinterland and the area of the former Amt Himmelpforten formed part of the Himmelpforten-based Canton de Himmelpforten in the Bouches-de-l'Elbe Department.[21]

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the

District of Stade Himmelpforten forms part of it.[22]

Himmelpforten is one of Germany's oldest Weihnachtspostämter or Christmas Post Offices, to which children can

write letters to Santa and volunteers send responses.[23]

Name

When in 1255 the

Mary of Nazareth as the Gate of Heaven derived from Ezekiel's "closed gate" (Ezekiel 44:2–3), considered to have been opened by Mary as an incarnation of this prophecy. Eylsede later adopted the Low Saxon translation tor Hemmelporten or to der Himilporten of the convent's Latin name, now given in modern Low Saxon as Himmelpoorten and in standard High German as Himmelpforten.[24]

Sister cities

Sister towns

Components of Himmelpforten

Today's Himmelpforten comprises the following localities and formerly independent municipalities:

Himmelpforten station is almost at the middle of the Niederelbebahn.
  • Breitenwisch [de] (Low Saxon: Bredenwisch), since 1972 a locality of Himmelpforten[25]
  • Kuhla [nds] (Low Saxon: Kuhla), since 1972 a locality of Himmelpforten[25]
  • Löhe [nds] (Low Saxon: Löh), a locality of Himmelpforten of old[26]
  • Neukuhla (Low Saxon: Neekuhla), a locality of Himmelpforten of old[26]
  • Ochsenpohl [nds] (Low Saxon: Ossenpohl), a locality of Himmelpforten of old[26]
  • Ramels [nds] (Low Saxon: Ramels), a locality of Himmelpforten of old[26]

Traffic

Himmelpforten is connected by the

Niederelbebahn line with 51.9 kilometres (32.2 mi) towards Hamburg-Harburg station and 50.9 kilometres (31.6 mi) towards Cuxhaven station
.

External links

Media related to Himmelpforten at Wikimedia Commons

Notes

  1. Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen
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  2. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 5. No ISBN.
  3. ^ Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 28. No ISBN.
  4. ^ Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 37. No ISBN.
  5. ^ Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 33. No ISBN.
  6. ISBN 978-3-643-10408-3
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  7. ^ Von der Hude lived c. 1500-1578. At the end of his career he served as senior of the Cathedral Chapter in Bremen, where his epitaph is shown in St. Peter's Cathedral.
  8. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 27. No ISBN.
  9. ^ Sabine Graf, „Die vier katholischen Klöster Harsefeld, Altkloster, Neukloster und Zeven im evangelischen Erzstift Bremen“, in: Stader Jahrbuch, N.F. 91/92 (2001/2002), pp. 51–78, here p. 60.
  10. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 33. No ISBN.
  11. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 37. No ISBN.
  12. ^
    ISBN 978-3-9801919-9-9
    .
  13. ^ Karl Schleif, Regierung und Verwaltung des Erzstifts Bremen, Hamburg: no publ., 1972, (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vol. 1), p. 196, also Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1968. No ISBN.
  14. ISBN 978-3-9801919-9-9
    .
  15. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 42. No ISBN.
  16. ISBN 978-3-9801919-9-9
  17. ^ a b Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 57. No ISBN.
  18. ^ Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 56. No ISBN.
  19. ^ Klaus Isensee, Die Region Stade in westfälisch-französischer Zeit 1810–1813: Studien zum napoleonischen Herrschaftssystem unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Stadt Stade und des Fleckens Harsefeld, Stade: Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 2003, simultaneously: Hanover, Univ., Diss., 1991, (=Einzelschriften des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatvereins; vol. 33), p. 77. No ISBN.
  20. ^ Klaus Isensee, Die Region Stade in westfälisch-französischer Zeit 1810–1813: Studien zum napoleonischen Herrschaftssystem unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Stadt Stade und des Fleckens Harsefeld, Stade: Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 2003, simultaneously: Hanover, Univ., Diss., 1991, (=Einzelschriften des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatvereins; vol. 33), p. 86. No ISBN.
  21. ^ Klaus Isensee, Die Region Stade in westfälisch-französischer Zeit 1810–1813: Studien zum napoleonischen Herrschaftssystem unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Stadt Stade und des Fleckens Harsefeld, Stade: Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 2003, simultaneously: Hanover, Univ., Diss., 1991, (=Einzelschriften des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatvereins; vol. 33), p. 100. No ISBN.
  22. ^ Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 61. No ISBN.
  23. ^ "Santa Claus in Himmelpforten - Deutschland.de - Your link to Germany". Archived from the original on 2014-12-08.
  24. ^ a b Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 23. No ISBN.
  25. ^
    ISBN 3-17-003263-1
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  26. ^ a b c d Silvia Schulz-Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 128. No ISBN.
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