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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Land of Wursten canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coastal region
former territory
historic region
country Germany
hasCoastlineType marshland coast
tidal flats
hasNearbyCity Bremerhaven
Cuxhaven
hasSettlement Cappel
Dorum
Midlum
Misselwarden
Mulsum
linked to: Filsum

Nordholz
Padingbüttel
Wremen
heritageDesignation historic cultural landscape
historicalEconomy coastal livestock farming
dike construction
marshland agriculture
historicalLanguage Frisian
Low German
historicalStatus free peasant community
peasant republic
incorporatedInto Duchy of Bremen
Kingdom of Hanover
Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen
Prussia
incorporationCentury 16th century
knownFor self-governing peasant institutions
tradition of Frisian freedom
locatedBetween Elbe estuary
Weser estuary
linked to: Weser River estuary
locatedIn Lower Saxony
district of Cuxhaven
northern Germany
linked to: Northern Germany
locatedOn North Sea coast
partOf Frisia
Wursten and Hadeln region
linked to: Wendland region
presentAdministrativeStatus part of municipality Wurster Nordseeküste
religionHistorically Christianity
Lutheranism
traditionalInhabitants Frisians
free Frisian peasants

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Duchy of Bremen territoryIncludes Land of Wursten
Vincent Lübeck placeOfBirth Land of Wursten