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Bremen-Verden, a remote outpost of Sweden's Baltic Sea empire, was the third Swedish imperial fief in North Germany granted under the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, alongside Swedish Pomerania and the Barony of Wismar.
- 15 September 1675-13 August 1676
- Allied victory
- Duchies of Bremen and Verden
Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden, were two territories and immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they were prince-bishoprics of the Archdiocese of Bremen and Bishopric of Verden.
History of Bremen (city) Bremen, 16th century. For most of its 1,200 year history, Bremen was an independent city within the confederal jurisdiction of Germany 's Holy Roman Empire. In the late Middle Ages, its governing merchant guilds were at the centre of the Hanseatic League, which sought to monopolise the North Sea and Baltic trade.
The Bremen-Verden Campaign ( German: Bremen-Verdener Feldzug) was a conflict during the Northern Wars in Europe. From 15 September 1675 to 13 August 1676 an anti-Swedish coalition comprising Brandenburg-Prussia, the neighbouring imperial princedoms of Lüneburg and Münster, and Denmark-Norway, conquered the Duchies of Bremen and Verden.
- 15 September 1675-13 August 1676
- Allied victory
- Duchies of Bremen and Verden
English: The Duchy of Bremen (an imperially immediate territory in the Lower Saxon Circle ), transformed from the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen in 1648, and the Principality of Verden (an imperially immediate territory in the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle ), transformed from the Prince-Bishopric of Verden and the Free Imperial City of Verden in 1648 (all the three by the Peace of ...
The Swedish wars on Bremen were fought between the Swedish Empire and the Hanseatic town of Bremen in 1654 and 1666. Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatised part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden, themselves territories immediately beneath the emperor.
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In 1719 Sweden ceded Bremen-Verden to Hannover, a change recognized by the Emperor only in 1733. In 1731 Land Hadeln (until then a territory under Sachsen-Lauenburg) came under the administration of Bremen-Verden. From 1807 to 1810, the territory of Bremen-Verden was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, from 1810 to 1814 part of France.
