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14-722: Zeven is located in the Zevener Geest in the centrum of the Elbe-Weser Triangle . The closest major city is Hamburg. In 986 Zeven was first mentioned in a document of the Benedictine Zeven Convent  [ de ] in Heeslingen , then giving its name as kivinan à Heeslingen (Kivinan near Heeslingen). In 1141 the convent was relocated to Zeven. The convent played a determining role in Zeven's history. Zeven belonged to

28-527: A reCatholicisation within the scope of Counter-Reformation . The nuns, who had converted to Lutheranism, were then expelled from the convent. In 1632 troops of the legitimate ruler of the Prince-Archbishopric, Administrator John Frederick , helped by troops from Sweden and the city of Bremen, reconquered the Prince-Archbishopric. The convent was dissolved. By the Peace of Westphalia the Prince-Archbishopric

42-643: The Catholic League under Johan 't Serclaes, Count of Tilly conquered the Prince-Archbishopric in 1627/1628. The Leaguist takeover enabled Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , to implement the Edict of Restitution , decreed March 6, 1629, within the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen and the Prince-Bishopric of Verden . The convent of Zeven - still maintaining Roman Catholic rite - became the local stronghold for

56-891: The Electorate of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain . In the course of the Anglo- French and Indian War (1754–63) on North American colonies Britain feared a French invasion in Hanover . Thus George II Augustus formed an alliance with his Brandenburg-Prussian cousin Frederick II, the Great combining the North American conflict with the Austro–Brandenburg-Prussian Seven Years' War (1756–63). In summer 1757

70-710: The Stade Region , established in 1823. In 1824/1825 Carl Friedrich Gauß carried out the trigonometric geodetic surveying of the Stade Region, as commissioned by King George IV of Hanover and the United Kingdom . Gauß used the tower of the Lutheran Church of St. Viti as a benchmark for his triangulations . Local businesses include the head office of the recently created DMK dairy combine (before 2011 Nordmilch ), producing milk based products such as quark under

84-645: The Estates' say had almost vanished. This led to considerable unease among the Estates, so that in May 1694 representatives of Swedish Bremen-Verden's general government and the Estates met at the former convent of Zeven to confer on the status of the Duchies. After a Danish occupation (1712-1715) the Duchy of Bremen was sold to the House of Hanover , and thus became ruled in personal union with

98-571: The French invaders defeated George II Augustus' son William Duke of Cumberland , leading the Anglo-Hanoverian army , and drove him and his army into remote Bremen-Verden , where in the former cloister of Zeven he had to capitulate on September 18 ( Convention of Klosterzeven ). But George II Augustus denied his recognition of the convention. With British Hanover's defeat in the Napoléonic Wars

112-507: The Zeven Geest belongs administratively to the rural districts ( Landkreisen ) of Verden , Harburg , Rotenburg (Wümme) and Stade , that were formerly part of the Stade administrative district. 53°17′27″N 9°19′53″E  /  53.2909°N 9.3314°E  / 53.2909; 9.3314 Hanoverian Army of Observation An army of observation is a military body whose purpose

126-544: The old Duchy of Saxony and at its dissolution in 1180 Zeven became a part of the newly founded Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen , the princely territory of imperial immediacy ruled by the respective holder of the archiepiscopal see of Bremen. During the Protestant Reformation the majority of the nun clung to Catholicism , while most laymen adopted Lutheranism . In the course of the Thirty Years' War troops of

140-501: The short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Duchy of Bremen in 1807, including Zeven, before France annexed it in 1810. In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover , which - after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 (and still ruled in personal union with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ) - incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the ducal territory, including Zeven, became part of

154-658: The town of Zeven . The Zeven Geest lies in the Elbe-Weser Triangle between the cities of Hamburg , Bremen and Bremerhaven . It covers the area between Sottrum , Bremervörde , Stade , Buxtehude , Tostedt , Scheeßel and Rotenburg (Wümme) . It borders in the west on the Hamme-Oste Lowland and the Teufelsmoor , in the south on the Wümme Lowland and in the northwest on the Wesermünde Geest . The region of

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168-498: The two latter functions her residence in today's Queen Christina House in Zeven, the oldest remaining profane building in town. As in Sweden proper, the constitutional and administrative bodies in the Swedish dominions gradually lost de facto importance due to ever growing centralisation. Bremen-Verden's Estates lost more and more influence, and were less frequently convened. After 1692

182-514: The well known (throughout Germany ) "Milram" label. Zeven was the site of a DECCA transmitter . Close to its masts, there is also an FM -broadcasting station, using a 100 metre tall guyed mast. Zevener Geest The Zeven Geest ( German : Zevener Geest ), which is part of the Stade Geest , is an area of sandy terrain in the northeast of the German state of Lower Saxony . It is named after

196-690: Was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen in 1648, which - together with the Principality of Verden - was first given as a prey for its participation in the Thirty Years' War to be ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown. These two imperial fiefs to the Swedes are thus colloquially called Bremen-Verden . The queen regnant Christina of Sweden, in personal union Duchess of Bremen and Princess of Verden installed in

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