Portal:Elbe-Weser Triangle
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 The Elbe-Weser Triangle region ... 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:
and the town of 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.JPG) Regions: Altes Land – Kehdingen – Land Hadeln - Land Wursten - Osterholz Geest - Stade - Wümme Depression Landscapes and natural regions: Stade Geest Rivers and streams:
Lakes: Breites Wasser - Bullenseen – Hemmoorer Kreidesee Canals: Elbe-Weser Shipping Channel – Oste-Hamme Canal Hills: Deutscher Olymp – Silberberg – Westerberg – Weyerberg - Wingst Moors: Teufelsmoor Forests: Islands: Großer Knechtsand – Krautsand – Lühesand – Neuwerk National parks: Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park – Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park History General: Chauci – Frisians – Saxons War and the military Convention of Klosterzeven Church: Archdiocese of Bremen Storm floods: Burchardi flood – 1st St. Marcellus flood – Grote Mandrenke – North Sea flood of 1962 – Christmas flood 1717 – 2nd St. Marcellus flood Coastal defence and settlement: Warft Law: Science: Berthold 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 – Low Saxon house – Osten Transporter Bridge Museums: AERONAUTICUM– 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: Halepaghen-Schule Special: German Ferries Route 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 – 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 Rail: Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser – Lower Elbe Railway – Moor Express – Rollbahn – Bremen–Bremerhaven railway – Bremerhaven–Cuxhaven railway – Bremervörde–Walsrode railway - Weser-Aller Railway PeopleSons 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:
Noble families: von Buxhoeveden – 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 – Himmelpforten – Horneburg – Land Wursten – Lühe – Nordkehdingen – Oldendorf – 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 |
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