Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Elbe–Weser triangle

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... 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:

15px Stade, 15px Cuxhaven, 15px Osterholz, 15px Rotenburg, 15px Verden (only part of the latter),

and the town of 15px 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...

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Regions:

Altes Land –

Kehdingen –

Land Hadeln -

Land Wursten -

Osterholz Geest -

Stade -

Wesermünde Geest -

Wümme Depression

Landscapes and natural regions:

Stade Geest

Rivers and streams:

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Aue (Oste) -

Bever –

Drepte -

Elbe –

Este –

Geeste –

Hamme –

Lesum –

Lühe –

Lune -

Mehe –

Medem –

Oste –

Ramme –

Rodau –

Scharmbecker Bach –

Schönebecker Aue -

Schwinge (Elbe) -

Twiste –

Unterelbe –

15px 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

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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:

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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

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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

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:

15px 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 –

15px 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

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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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Wikipedia in the local dialect

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• ... 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?

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