Arensch

Arensch is a local part of Cuxhaven, a town in Lower Saxony, Germany.HistoryArensch belonged to Land of Hadeln, and its local rulers were the heads of the on the castles of Sahlenburg and. The Lappes conveyanced their feudal overlordship in Arensch, Berensch, and, together termed the heath villages (Heidedörfer), to the Convent in Wolde (later in Neuenwalde) after 1282. However, the seigniorial power remained with the Lappes.In 1372 the Lappes pawned it to Hamburg which made the heath villages part of its territorial exclave, the, in 1394 definitely superseding the Lappes. After 1571 Hamburg technically and de facto seized Neuenwalde's feudal privileges in Arensch and the other heath villages. Hamburg's bailiff of Ritzebüttel made the tenant farmers in the heath villages swear allegiance to the Senate of Hamburg.After an occupation by France and an annexation by its ephemeric client state Kingdom of Westphalia in 1810, Arensch itself was annexed to France in 1811. In 1813 the Ritzebüttel Bailiwick was restored to Hamburg, whose sovereignty was restituted too. In 1937 Hamburg ceded the Ritzebüttel Bailiwick to the Stade Region within the Prussian Province of Hanover.