http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Bremen/uebersichtskarte.html
BTW, in 1933 Bremen and Oldenburg were merged under
a "Reichsstatthalter" (the Nazi governor of the area). So on the 1942
map, we are also looking at a Bremen/Oldenburg exclave within Prussia.
It was only after the war that the new land Bremen was formed (which
included the new city of Bremerhaven).
Peter S.
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "anorak222" <listen@w...>
wrote:
> " (...)the map shows the municipality later to be called
Bremerhaven,
> with the enclave on municipality level already in existance. More
> confusing is the fact that both the surounding municipality as well
> as the enclave later switched names, but this name change didn't
> really alter the enclave situation as such."
>
>
>
> It can be historically explained, though:
>
> First, there were two cities, Lehe and Geestemuende (and some other
> villages, but they needn't concern us here). They later became
> Wesermuende (1924). These were Prussian cities, in Hanover province.
>
> There was also a place called Bremerhaven. It was a small city +
> harbour, and it was part of the Free city of Bremen (so not part of
> Prussia).
>
> Bremerhaven got a fair deal of autonomy from Bremen then, but still
> remained within the Free city.
>
> Now there were plans to merge Wesermuende and Bremerhaven into one
> city. Bremen wanted to retain (a part of?) the old Bremerhaven
> harbour section, though. So this was returned to Bremen in 1938. It
> retained the name "Bremerhaven" (this is the "Stadtbremisches
> Überseehafengebiet Bremerhaven"). The remainder of Bremerhaven, the
> city part (nowadays also called Old Bremerhaven), became part of
> Wesermuende in 1939.
>
> So at the time of the map (1942), There was only Wesermuende
> (Prussia) and the Stadtbremisches Überseehafengebiet Bremerhaven
> (Bremen), or in a shorter form (you couldn't confound it with
> anything else then) just Bremerhaven. This is what we see on the
map.
> Note also the "Landesgrenzen" and "Stadtgrenze" on the map.
>
> Our confusion comes from the fact that in 1947 Wesermuende was
> renamed Bremerhaven.
>
> Peter S.