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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STADE , a See also:

town of See also:Germany in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, situated on the navigable Schwinge, 31 M. above its confluence with the See also:Elbe, 20 M. N.W. of See also:Hamburg on the railway to See also:Cuxhaven. Pop. (1905), 10,837. It carries on a number of small manufactures and has some See also:shipping See also:trade, chiefly with Hamburg, but the rise of See also:Harburg has deposed it from its former position as the See also:chief See also:port of Hanover. In the neighbourhood are deposits of See also:gypsum and See also:salt. The fortifications, erected in 1755 and strengthened in 1816, were demolished in 1882. According to the See also:legend, Stade was the See also:oldest town of the See also:Saxons and was built in 321 B.C. Historically it cannot be traced farther back than the loth See also:century, when it was the See also:capital of a See also:line of See also:counts. In the 13th century it passed to the See also:arch-bishopric of See also:Bremen. Subsequently entering the Hanseatic See also:League, it See also:rose to some commercial importance.' In 1648 Stade became the capital of the principality of Bremen under the Swedes; and in 1719 it was ceded to Hanover, the See also:fate of which it has since shared. The Prussians occupied it without resistance in 1866.

See Jobelmann and Wittpennig, Geschichte der Stadt Stade (Stade, 1898).

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