Lilienthal

The municipality of Lilienthal belongs to the executive district of Osterholz, Lower Saxony and borders Bremen. The records of the small town of Lilienthal is going again to its founding as a nunnery by way of the prince-archbishop Gerhard II. In 1232 construction was started on a convent of the Order of the Cistercians under the name of Vallis Liliorum, and the completed building changed into sanctified in 1264. During the 15th century, the cloister enjoyed a time of prosperity. After the Reformation and the conversion of the Cistercian nuns, it have become a Lutheran Women's Convent, and till the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 it remained in deplorable conditions. In 1650, the city went via secularization.

The land as soon as belonging to the convent, which had grow to be fragmented, evolved into the small town of Lilienthal. In 1648, according to the terms of the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War, the Prince-Archbishopric turned into transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, ruled collectively with the Principality of Verden, which have been first ruled in private union with the aid of the Swedish Crown. Queen Christina despatched certainly one of her commanders over, Graf Friedrich von Hessen-Eschwege, to the newly created barony of Osterholz, in which the rate of both Lilienthal and Osterholz were blended.