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Cuxhaven

Cuxhaven is a large independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district

Cuxhaven (district)

Cuxhaven is a districts of Germany in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Stade , Rotenburg , Osterholz and Wesermarsch, the City of Bremerhaven and the North Sea....
, in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony lies in northern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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Cuxhaven is a large independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district

Cuxhaven (district)

Lower Saxony

Germany

North Sea

Elbe

The River Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in the Krkonose Mountains of northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Germany and flowing into the North Sea....
River. Cuxhaven has a footprint of 14 km (east-west) by 7 km (north-south). It is a popular vacation spot on the North Sea

North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
and home to about 52,000 residents.

Cuxhaven is home to an important fisherman's wharf and ship registration point for Hamburg

Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
as well as the Kiel Canal

Kiel Canal

The Kiel Canal , until 1948 known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, is a 61 miles long canal in the Germany States of Germany Schleswig-Holstein that links the North Sea at Brunsb?ttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau....
. Tourism is also of great importance. The city long belonged to Hamburg. The Island of Neuwerk

Neuwerk

Neuwerk is a Wadden Sea island on the Germany North Sea coast. It is located northwest of Cuxhaven, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries. Neuwerk belongs administratively to Hamburg, Germany, in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, even though the distance to Hamburg's center is about 120 km....
, a Hamburg dependency, is located just northwest of Cuxhaven in the North Sea. The city's symbol is a beacon or lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to Maritime pilot at sea....
; the wooden landmark on the mouth of the Elbe marks the boundary between the river and the North Sea and also adorns the city's coat of arms.

History

Ritzebüttel, today a part of Cuxhaven, belonged to the Land of Hadeln, first an exclave of the younger Duchy of Saxony

Saxe-Wittenberg

The Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg was a medieval duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged after the dissolution of the stem duchy of Duchy of Saxony....
and after its de facto dynastic partition in 1296 of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, established de jure in 1260. In 1394 the city of Hamburg

Hamburg

Elbe

The River Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in the Krkonose Mountains of northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Germany and flowing into the North Sea....
, which connects that city with the open sea. On March 15, 1907 Cuxhaven gained city status within the state of Hamburg. In 1937 Cuxhaven became an urban district

Independent city

An independent city is a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity.Independent cities should not be confused with city-states , which are fully sovereign cities that are not part of any other nation-state....
of the Stade Region

Stade (region)

The Stade Region emerged in 1823 by an administrative reorganisation of the dominions of the Kingdom of Hanover, a sovereign state, whose then territory is almost completely part of today's German German state of Lower Saxony....
within the Prussian Province of Hanover

Province of Hanover

The Province of Hanover was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1946.During the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, along with some other member states of the German Confederation....
by the Greater Hamburg Act. In 1972 some municipalities of the neighboured rural district of Land of Hadeln were incorporated into the urban district of Cuxhaven. In 1977 Cuxhaven lost the status as urban district and was integrated into the new rural District of Cuxhaven

Cuxhaven (district)

Airship hangar

Airships are sheltered in airship hangars during construction and sometimes also for regular operation, particularly at bad weather conditions. The big historic, rigid airships needed always to be based in airship hangars because weather protection was crucial for them....
s was one of the major German naval airship

Airship

An airship or dirigible is a aerostat that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust. Unlike other aerodynamics aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, which produce lift by moving a wing, or airfoil, through the air, aerostatic aircraft, such as airships and Balloon , stay...
stations.

Between 1945 and 1964 various experiments in rocketry

Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven

Between 1933 and 1964 numerous rocket experiments were carried out in the area of Cuxhaven, Germany....
were performed near Cuxhaven.

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A few kilometers off the Cuxhaven coast lies the island of Neuwerk

Neuwerk

Tide

Tides are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. Tides cause changes in the depth of the marine and estuary water bodies and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams, making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation ....
the water recedes so far from the coast that the island can be reached either by mudflat hiking or by horse carriage

Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
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A modern landmark of Cuxhaven is the Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower

Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower

Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower is a 230 metre tall telecommunication tower of reinforced concrete at Cuxhaven in Germany. Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower, which is named after Friedrich Clemens Gerke, was completed in 1991 and is not accessible for tourists....
, a telecommunication tower built of concrete, which is not accessible to the public. It is not really a landmark, for all the cities in Germany have a similar tower as that. The High test peroxide

High test peroxide

High test peroxide or HTP is a high concentration solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder predominantly made up of water. In contact with a catalyst it decomposes into a high temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining water....
(HTP) Submarine U 1407, was raised from where she had been scuttled in Cuxhaven after WWII

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
and rebuilt by the British, being commissioned as HMS Meteorite

HMS Meteorite

HMS Meteorite was an experimental U Boat developed in Germany, captured at the end of World War II, and commissioned into the Royal Navy. It was built around a Hellmuth Walter engine fuelled by High test peroxide ....
. It was the catalyst for a series of German-made Air-independent propulsion

Air-independent propulsion

Air-independent propulsion is a term that encompasses technologies which allow a submarine to operate without the need to surface or use a Submarine snorkel to access Earth's atmosphere oxygen....
submarines such as the Type 212 submarine

Type 212 submarine

The Germany Type 212 is a highly advanced design of non-nuclear submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG for the German Navy. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion system using Siemens AG proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells....
and Type 214 submarine

Type 214 submarine

The Type 214 is a diesel-electric submarine developed by Howaldtswerk. It features diesel propulsion with an air-independent propulsion system using Siemens AG polymer electrolyte module hydrogen fuel cells....
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Cruxhaven has been twinned with the Cornish district of Penwith

Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
Since 1974

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