The city history page, written in German, that STADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbH publishes on its tourism website for the Hanseatic City of Stade in Lower Saxony. It gives a short account of the town from its earliest settlement through the Hanseatic period, Swedish rule and the twentieth century, with a timeline entry for the year 994, when Viking raiders looted the settlement then called Stethu and the chronicler Thietmar von Merseburg recorded it. It is used here for the year of Stade first written mention.
Facts
AuthorSTADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbH
PublisherSTADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbH
URLhttps://stade-tourismus.de/de/hansestadt-stade/stades-stadtgeschichte/
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier2
Tier two because the page is the official tourism company of the city telling its own history for visitors: reliable on the commonly cited dates, which it matches to German Wikipedia, but a popular summary rather than a primary record or a scholarly history. NotesA German-language visitor history. The page is undated, so no publication year is stored. Its 994 matches German Wikipedia, which also dates the first written mention of Stethu to the Viking raid of 994; the English Wikipedia lead sentence gives 934, which this page and the English article own History section do not support. Read 2026-10-10.
Sources
STADE Marketing und Tourismus: Stades Stadtgeschichte
STADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbH, STADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbHView the Source Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Cities, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 general references.
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