VERDEN, a town in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 m. above its confluence with the Weser, 22 m. S.E. of Bremen by the railway to Hanover. Pop. (1933) 10,634. Verden was the seat of a bishopric founded in the first quarter of the 9th century, or earlier, and secularized in 1648.
The duchy of Verden was then ceded to Sweden, passed in 1719 to Hanover and was, with Hanover, annexed by Prussia in 1866. The most noticeable edifice is the Gothic cathedral. Its industries embrace the manufacture of furniture, soap and ma. chinery, cigar-making, brewing and distilling.