Abbenfleth

Abbenfleth is located in Lower Saxony on the Lower Elbe about 60 km northwest of Hamburg and today belongs to the city of Stade. In the south it borders on the villages of Bützfleth and Kreuel, in the north on the village of Barnkrug, in the east lies the Elbe and in the west the small village of Depenbeck.
The first written mention dates back to before 1124, when Margrave Rudolf I donated a hoof of land in Abbenfleth to Harsefeld Abbey. According to the latest findings, Abbenfleth was settled 1000 years earlier and is therefore 2000 years old. This is evidenced by finds discovered by chance in 2008. A well-preserved clay stove and remains of household items were found: shards of water jugs or storage pots. The shards date from the period 0 to 375 AD, the Roman imperial period in northern Germany. Until now, however, the common opinion was that the Elbe marsh had only been settled since the 12th century. In recent centuries, the people in the small village usually lived from seafaring or agriculture. In 1823 the village had 162 inhabitants, in 1939 323.

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