Local family database Kirchwalsede

Kirchwalsede is situated right in the center of the triangle formed bv Rotenburg (Wümme), Visselhövede and Verden (Aller), in which Rothenburg is the closest town (12.3 km away). Kirchwalsede is, according to area, clearly the largest parish within the greater parish of Bothel.

The original name Walsede is tracable to the name of the Walse river, the identity of which was determined (along with the Fuhl stream which still exists today) from old maps showing the ownership of land. The ending -sede allows those studying name origins to estimate that the settlement began sometime from the 1st to the 5th century A.D. The daughter settlements of Westerwalsede and Süderwalsede were founded later.

Westerwalsede is mentioned for the first time in a record from 1231, Süderwalsede and Walsede find their way into the Bishop of Verden's ownership inventory only in 1320.

The current name has been in use since the end of the 17th century. To this parish belong not only Westerwalsede and Süderwalsede but also Odeweg and Schafwinkel. The Lutheran bishop Eberhard von Holle introduced the Reformation here in 1567, which for 2 years beginning in 1629 was revoked by the Restitution Edict of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1628 the parish was devastated by the plague, to such an extent that only 3 married couples were spared from this contagious disease.

In 1645 we see that Kirchwalsede, along with the Duchy of Verden, came under Swedish control. In 1712 the town became Danish, then in turn was taken over by Elector Georg Ludwig in 1719 along with the rest of the duchy. Between 1805 and 1813 Kirchwalsede belonged to France most of the time due to the conquests of Napoleon. The liberation from French domination took place on October 12, 1813 by means of Russian and Prussian troops. After this Kirchwalsede belonged to the Kingdom of Hannover. Starting in 1866 there followed an 80-year union with Prussia, which was ended by the victorious Allied powers in 1946.

Kirchwalsede and Westerwalsede were added to the greater parish of Bothel on March 1, 1974 via a territorial reform.

Source: Wikipedia

This databank contains 6538 persons.

Translated by Christopher Wolter