Bremervörde

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In the garden of the historic Haus am See in Bremervörde

For the Bremervörde meteorite of 1855, see Meteorite falls.

Bremervörde is a town in the north of the district Rotenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany, with a population of 19,257 as at December 31, 2003. It is situated at the Oste river near the mid of the triangle, which is formed of the rivers Weser and Elbe respectively the cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhaven.

The municipality Bremervörde consists beside the town Bremervörde of the villages Bevern, Elm, Hesedorf, Hönau-Lindorf, Nieder Ochtenhausen, Iselersheim, Mehedorf, Minstedt, Ostendorf, Plönjeshausen and Spreckens.

[edit] History

At the beginning of the 12th century Lothair of Supplinburg, later king of the Holy Roman Empire, build castrum vorde, the castle Vörde. Because of the strategically advantageous location between the rivers Elbe and Weser it was matter of conflicts in the following centuries. Later it came under control of Henry the Lion and then, 1219, it fell under control of the archdiocese Bremen. That caused the town to be named Bremer vörde.

[edit] Tourism

Bremervörde is the end point of the "Deutsche Fährstraße" established in May 2004, an institution similar to the American National Scenic Byways. It connects various places between Bremervörde and Kiel with relation to the history of ferries and crossing of rivers, like the historic transporter bridges in Osten and Rendsburg.