Himmelpforten is a municipality west of Hamburg in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is located on the Horsterbeck creek. Himmelpforten is also part and the seat of the Samtgemeinde Oldendorf-Himmelpforten.
Himmelpforten belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. The families von Brobergen and von Haseldorf had donated a Cistercian nunnery in Rahden near Lamstedt. In 1255 it moved to Himmelpforten, then named Eulsete. The Himmelpforten Convent used to be called in Latin: Porta Coeli , which became the place's name Himmelpoorten or Himmelpforten respectively. The church of the nunnery was also used as a parish church. The nuns elected a provost, first mentioned in 1255 , who had the privilege to nominate priests to the churches in the Himmelpforten parish, to wit the churches in Himmelpforten itself, in Großenwörden, Hechthausen and in Horst upon Oste.
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Address: Stade, Germany
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