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A warm welcome to the Elbe–Weser triangle portal, the home of Wikipedia information on this important coastal region of Germany. The portal gives a brief overview of the region as well as acting as an index for many of the articles about the Elbe–Weser triangle on English Wikipedia.

The Elbe–Weser triangle region

Location of the Elbe–Weser triangle within Germany

... lies in northern Lower Saxony between the estuaries of the rivers Weser and Elbe. Its corners are formed roughly by the two Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg, as well as the town of Cuxhaven at its northwestern tip. It largely coincides with the historic province of Stade province of Stade, and hence the former territory of Bremen-Verden (Duchy of Bremen and Duchy of Verden).

Today the area includes the rural districts of:

Stade, Cuxhaven, Osterholz, Rotenburg, Verden (only part of the latter),

and the town of Bremerhaven.

The southern half of the district of Rotenburg forms the transition to the Lüneburg Heath, and the district of Verden to the Middle Weser Region and likewise to the Lüneburg Heath. More...

Geography and nature

Regions: Altes Land – Kehdingen – Land Hadeln - Land Wursten - Osterholz Geest - Stade - Wesermünde Geest - Wümme Depression

Landscapes and natural regions: Stade Geest

Rivers and streams:

Aue (Oste) - Bever – Drepte - Elbe – Este – Geeste – Hamme – Lesum – Lühe – Lune - Mehe – Medem – Oste – Ramme – Rodau – Scharmbecker Bach – Schönebecker Aue - Schwinge (Elbe) - Twiste – Unterelbe – Weser – Wiedau – Wienbeck - Wümme – Wörpe

Lakes: Breites Wasser - Bullenseen – Hemmoorer Kreidesee

Canals: Elbe–Weser waterway – Hadeln Canal – Oste-Hamme Canal

Hills: Ahrensberg – Deutscher Olymp – Litberg - Silberberg – Westerberg – Weyerberg - Wingst

Moors: Teufelsmoor

Forests:

Islands: Großer Knechtsand – Krautsand – Lühesand – Neuwerk - Nigehörn - Scharhörn

National parks: Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park – Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park

History

General: Chauci – Frisians – Saxons

War and the military Bremen-Verden Campaign - Convention of Klosterzeven

Church: Archdiocese of Bremen

Storm floods: Burchardi flood – 1st St. Marcellus flood – Grote Mandrenke – North Sea flood of 1962 – Christmas Flood of 1717 – 2nd St. Marcellus flood

Coastal defence and settlement: Warft

Law:

Science: Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH – Operation Backfire (WWII) – Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven

Economy:

Historic administrative units: Bouches de l'Elbe – Bouches du Weser – Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg – Regierungsbezirk Stade – Greater Hamburg Act - Town of Wesermünde

Special:

Culture

Cultural monuments: Bremerhaven lighthouse – Kugelbake - Low Saxon house – Osten Transporter Bridge

Museums: Aeronauticum – Bremerhaven Zoo - Deutsches Auswandererhaus – Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum – Wilhelm Bauer (U-boat)

Events: Buxtehuder Bulle

Culture:

Language Hamburg dialect – Missingsch – West Low German – Plattdeutsch

Regional cuisine: Fliederbeersuppe – Grünkohlessen – Klüten – Köm – Labskaus – Pinkel – Rote Grütze – Steckrübeneintopf - Smelt

Sport: Boßeln – REV Bremerhaven – Eisbären Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven 93

High schools and institutes: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Schools: Athenaeum Stade - Halepaghen Grammar School

Special: German Ferry Road

Economy and transport

Industry: Airbus – Bacardi – Beck's Brewery – DaimlerChrysler – Dow Chemical – EADS – Elbe Crossing 1 – Elbe Crossing 2 – E.ON AG – FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG – Friedrich Clemens Gerke Tower – Hachez – Hydro Aluminium - Stade Nuclear Power Station – Kraft Foods – Schilling Power Station

Agriculture:

Newspapers and journals:

Hospitals:

Road: A 1 – A 20 – A 22 – A 26 – A 27 – B 6 – B 3 – B 71 – B 73 – Weser Tunnel – Elbe Crossing

Rail: Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser – Lower Elbe Railway – Moor Express – Rollbahn – Bremen–Bremerhaven railway – Bremerhaven–Cuxhaven railway – Bremervörde–Walsrode railway - Weser-Aller Railway

Sea: Bremerhaven Radar Tower

Air: Bremerhaven Airport – Nordholz Naval Airbase

People

Sons and daughters of the region: (the asterisk (*) is a link to the place of birth)

Vincent Lübeck * (1654–1740) composer – Aurora von Königsmarck * (um 1663–1728) paramour – Carsten Niebuhr * (1733–1815) explorer – August Karl von Goeben * (1816–1880) Prussian general – Hermann Allmers * (1821–1902) author and local historian – Gustav Wyneken * (1875–1964) pedagogue – Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf * (1893–1961) politician – Heinrich Hellwege (1908–1991) politician – Ulrich de Maizière * (1912) German general – Stefan Aust * (1946) journalist – Juliette Schoppmann * (1980) pop singer –

Other people connected with the region:

Arp Schnitger (1648–1719) organ maker – Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745-1816)) astronomer - Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826) poet and translator – Carl Schuchhardt (1859–1943) archaeologist – Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953), artist – Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), artist – Agnes Sander-Plump (1888–1980), artist – Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942), artist – Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), artist – Clara Westhoff (1878–1954), artist – Richard Oelze (1900–1980), artist – Walter Kempowski (1929) author – Peter Rühmkorf (1929) author – Johannes Schenk (1941), playwright – David McAllister (1971) politician and minister-president of Lower Saxony

Noble families:

Buxhoeveden family – von der Decken – von Düring – von Hodenberg

Land lords: List of the bishops of Bremen – Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg

Places

Towns: Bremen – Hamburg – Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Stade – Bremervörde – Rotenburg – Osterholz-Scharmbeck – Buxtehude – Zeven – Otterndorf – Langen

Collective municipalities: Am Dobrock – Apensen – Bederkesa – Beverstedt – Börde Lamstedt – Fredenbeck – Geestequelle – Hadeln – Hagen – Hambergen – Harsefeld – Hemmoor – Horneburg – Land Wursten – Lühe – Nordkehdingen – Oldendorf-Himmelpforten – Selsingen – Sietland – Sittensen – Sottrum – Tarmstedt – Zeven

Municipalities: Agathenburg – Ahausen – Ahlerstedt – Alfstedt – Anderlingen – Apensen – Appeln – Armstorf – Axstedt – Bad Bederkesa – Balje – Bargstedt – Basdahl – Beckdorf – Belum – Beverstedt – Bliedersdorf – Bokel – Bramstedt – Breddorf – Bremerhaven – Bremervörde – Brest – Burweg – Buxtehude – Bötersen – Bülkau – Bülstedt – Cadenberge – Cappel – Cuxhaven – Deinste – Deinstedt – Dollern – Dorum – Drangstedt – Driftsethe – Drochtersen – Düdenbüttel – Ebersdorf – Elmlohe – Elsdorf – Engelschoff – Estorf – Farven – Fintel – Flögeln – Fredenbeck – Freiburg/Elbe – Frelsdorf – Geversdorf – Gnarrenburg – Grasberg – Groß Meckelsen – Großenwörden – Grünendeich – Guderhandviertel – Gyhum – Hagen im Bremischen – Hambergen – Hamersen – Hammah – Harsefeld – Hassendorf – Hechthausen – Heerstedt – Heeslingen – Heinbockel – Hellwege – Helvesiek – Hemmoor – Hepstedt – Himmelpforten – Hipstedt – Hollen – Hollern-Twielenfleth – Hollnseth – Holste – Horneburg – Horstedt – Ihlienworth – Jork – Kalbe – Kirchtimke – Kirchwistedt – Klein Meckelsen – Kranenburg – Krummendeich – Kutenholz – Köhlen – Kührstedt – Lamstedt – Langen – Lauenbrück – Lengenbostel – Lilienthal – Lintig – Loxstedt – Lunestedt – Lübberstedt – Midlum – Misselwarden – Mittelnkirchen – Mittelstenahe – Mulsum – Neuenkirchen (Altes Land) – Neuenkirchen (Land Hadeln) – Neuhaus – Nordholz – Nordleda – Nottensdorf – Oberndorf – Odisheim – Oederquart – Oerel – Oldendorf – Osten – Osterbruch – Ostereistedt – Osterholz-Scharmbeck – Otterndorf – Ottersberg – Oyten – Padingbüttel – Reeßum – Rhade – Ringstedt – Ritterhude – Rotenburg (Wümme) – Sandbostel – Sandstedt – Sauensiek – Scheeßel – Schiffdorf – Schwanewede – Seedorf – Selsingen – Sittensen – Sottrum – Stade – Steinau – Steinkirchen – Stemmen – Stinstedt – Stubben – Tarmstedt – Tiste – Uthlede – Vahlde – Vierden – Vollersode – Vorwerk – Wanna – Westertimke – Wilstedt – Wingst – Wischhafen – Wohnste – Worpswede – Wremen – Wulsbüttel – Zeven

Important suburbs: Geestemünde

Related portals

Portal Hamburg

Wikipedia in the local dialect
Plattdüütsch Wikipedia

Did you know that ...?

... Wesermünde was the third largest town of the former Prussian Province of Hanover after Hanover and Osnabrück?
... in the 12th and 13th centuries Dutch colonists and drainage experts were hired to reclaim the marshlands around the Elbe and Weser rivers?