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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 caption 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 caption 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 caption 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 caption 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 caption 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

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