Land of Wursten

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The Land of Wursten is a historic coastal region in northern Germany, traditionally inhabited by free Frisian peasants and later incorporated into various North German territorial states.

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Label Occurrences
Land of Wursten canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coastal region
former territory
historic region
country Germany NERFINISHED
hasCoastlineType marshland coast
tidal flats
hasNearbyCity Bremerhaven NERFINISHED
Cuxhaven NERFINISHED
hasSettlement Cappel NERFINISHED
Dorum NERFINISHED
Midlum NERFINISHED
Misselwarden NERFINISHED
Mulsum NERFINISHED
Nordholz NERFINISHED
Padingbüttel NERFINISHED
Wremen NERFINISHED
heritageDesignation historic cultural landscape
historicalEconomy coastal livestock farming
dike construction
marshland agriculture
historicalLanguage Frisian
Low German NERFINISHED
historicalStatus free peasant community
peasant republic
incorporatedInto Duchy of Bremen NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Hanover NERFINISHED
Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen NERFINISHED
Prussia NERFINISHED
incorporationCentury 16th century
knownFor self-governing peasant institutions
tradition of Frisian freedom
locatedBetween Elbe estuary NERFINISHED
Weser estuary NERFINISHED
locatedIn Lower Saxony
district of Cuxhaven NERFINISHED
Northern Germany
surface form: northern Germany
locatedOn North Sea coast NERFINISHED
partOf Frisia NERFINISHED
Wursten and Hadeln region NERFINISHED
presentAdministrativeStatus part of municipality Wurster Nordseeküste
religionHistorically Christianity NERFINISHED
Lutheranism NERFINISHED
traditionalInhabitants Frisians NERFINISHED
free Frisian peasants

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Duchy of Bremen territoryIncludes Land of Wursten