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
... 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).
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.
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