History of Bremen - Adam of Bremen, AG Weser, Archbishopric of Bremen, Bremen-Verden, Stade, Bombing of Bremen in World War II (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Adam of Bremen, AG Weser, Archbishopric of Bremen, Bremen-Verden, Stade, Bombing of Bremen in World War II, John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop, Albert of Brunswick and Lunenburg-Wolfenbuttel, Valdemar of Denmark, Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Hartwig of Uthlede, Lufthansa Flight 005, Hanseatic Cross, Carlsburg, Weser, Hanseatic Legion, Bremer Vulkan, Treaty of Stockholm, Atlas Elektronik, Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Battle of Detern, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Atlas Werke, Bremen thaler. Excerpt: The Archdiocese of Bremen (also Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, German: , not to be confused with the modern Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994) was a historical Roman Catholic diocese (787-1566/1648) and formed from 1180 to 1648 an ecclesiastical state (continued under other names until 1823), named Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (German: ) within the Holy Roman Empire. The prince-archbishopric consisted of about a third of the diocesan territory. The city of Bremen was de facto (since 1186) and de jure (since 1646) no part of the prince-archbishopric but belonged to the archdiocese. Most of the prince-archbishopric lay rather in the area to the north of the city of Bremen, between the Weser and Elbe rivers. Even more confusingly, parts of the prince-archbishopric belonged in religious respect to the neighbouring diocese of Verden, making up 10% of its diocesan territory. Verden (German pronunciation: ) itself had a double identity too - as the diocese of Verden (German: ) and the Prince-Bishopric of Verden (German: ). Each prince-bishopric had the status of an Imperial Estate (German: , plural: ), each of which were represented in the Diet (German: ) of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1500 on the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen belonged to the Saxon Circle (lat...