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Grauerort Fortress

Grauerort fortress is a German artillery fort on river about 9 km north of which was built between 1869 and 1879 to defend the .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: museum in Germany
  • Also known as: “Grauerort fortress” and “Grauerort堡”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pagensand and Eschschallen im Seestermüher Vorland.

Nature reserve
Photo: Hämbörger, Public domain.
is a nature reserve.

Nature reserve
Photo: Huhu Uet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a nature reserve, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Grauerort Fortress.

Island
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is an island, which is situated 4 km northwest of Grauerort Fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bützfleth and Assel.

Suburb
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is a village with 5000 inhabitants in the north of the city in . It borders in the south to Götzdorf, in the northwest to Bützflethermoor and Depenbeck, in the north to Abbenfleth and in the east to the river . is situated 3 km south of Grauerort Fortress.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Grauerort Fortress.

Village
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is a municipality in the , in , . is situated 7 km east of Grauerort Fortress.

Grauerort Fortress

Latitude
53.67769° or 53° 40′ 40″ north
Longitude
9.49013° or 9° 29′ 25″ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F5FMFHR+33
Open­Street­Map ID
way 144117483
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
12175848
Wiki­data ID
Q1408886
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Grauerort Fortress” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Grauerort Fort”
  • Dutch: “Fort Grauerort”
  • Finnish: “Grauerortin linnake”
  • French: “Fort de Grauerort”
  • German: “Festung Grauerort”
  • German: “Fort Grauerort”
  • German: “Grauerort”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Grauerort”
  • Italian: “Forte Grauerort”
  • Japanese: “Grauerortフォート”
  • Russian: “Форт Грауэрорт”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte Grauerort”
  • Swedish: “Grauerort Fort”

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Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grauerort Fortress”. Photo: Morn the Gorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.