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Cuxhaven

Cuxhaven

Cuxhaven is a seaside resort city in , on the mouth of the river Elbe on the North Sea coast. With roughly 3 million booked nights a year, it is one of the largest seaside resorts in Germany.
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  • Type: Town with 49,700 residents
  • Description: district town of the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven, Germany
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cuxhaven station and Ritzebüttel Castle.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Cuxhaven is a railway station located in Cuxhaven, . The station is located on the Lower Elbe Railway and Bremerhaven–Cuxhaven railway. The Cuxhaven-Bremerhaven service is operated by EVB.

Castle
Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in Cuxhaven was the residence of the bailiffs, back when Ritzebüttel still belonged to the city of Hamburg. The castle, part of which dates back to the 14th century, is one of the oldest preserved secular buildings of the North German Brick Gothic style in the region and is now open to visitors.

Museum
Photo: Gerd Fahrenhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Döse and Stickenbüttel.

Suburb
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the northernmost town in , at the point where the River flows into the . It is a borough of the city Cuxhaven and a popular seaside resort.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Cuxhaven.

Cuxhaven

Latitude
53.8688° or 53° 52′ 8″ north
Longitude
8.6983° or 8° 41′ 54″ east
Population
49,700
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
FCN
United Nations Location Code
DE CUX
Open location code
9F5CVM9X+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14778814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2939658
Wiki­data ID
Q4197
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cuxhaven” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cuxhaven”
  • Arabic: “كوكسهافن”
  • Aragonese: “Cuxhaven”
  • Armenian: “Կուքսհաֆեն”
  • Arpitan: “Cuxhaven”
  • Asturian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Bashkir: “Куксхафен”
  • Basque: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Belarusian: “Куксгафен”
  • Breton: “Cuxhaven”
  • Catalan: “Cuxhaven”
  • Cebuano: “Cuxhaven”
  • Chechen: “Куксхафен”
  • Chinese: “库克斯港”
  • Chinese: “庫克斯港”
  • Corsican: “Cuxhaven”
  • Croatian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Czech: “Cuxhaven”
  • Danish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Dutch: “Cux”
  • Dutch: “Cuxhaven (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Cuxhaven”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوكسهاڤين”
  • Esperanto: “Cuxhaven”
  • Estonian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Finnish: “Cuxhaven”
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  • German: “Cuxhaven”
  • Hebrew: “קוקסהאפן”
  • Hungarian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Icelandic: “Cuxhaven”
  • Ido: “Cuxhaven”
  • Indonesian: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Irish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Italian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Japanese: “クックスハーフェン”
  • Kazakh: “Куксхафен”
  • Kirghiz: “Куксхафен”
  • Kongo: “Cuxhaven”
  • Korean: “쿡스하펜”
  • Kurdish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Ladin: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Limburgan: “Cuxhaven”
  • Lithuanian: “Kukshafenas”
  • Lombard: “Cuxhaven”
  • Low German: “Cuxhaven”
  • Low German: “Cuxhoben”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Macedonian: “Куксхавен”
  • Macedonian: “Куксхафен”
  • Malagasy: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Moksha: “Куксгафэн”
  • Narom: “Cuxhaven”
  • Neapolitan: “Cuxhaven”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cuxhuuwen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cuxhaven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuxhaven”
  • Norwegian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cuxhaven”
  • Persian: “کوکس‌هافن”
  • Persian: “کوکسهاون”
  • Picard: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Polish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Portuguese: “Cuxhaven”
  • Romanian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Romansh: “Cuxhaven”
  • Russian: “Куксхафен”
  • Sardinian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Scots: “Cuxhaven”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cuxhaven”
  • Serbian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Serbian: “Куксхавен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Sicilian: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Slovenian: “Cuxhaven”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوکسهاون”
  • Spanish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Swahili: “Cuxhaven”
  • Swedish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Swiss German: “Cuxhaven”
  • Tatar: “Куксһафен”
  • Thai: “คุคส์ฮาเฟิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Cuxhaven”
  • Turkish: “Cuxhaven”
  • Ukrainian: “Куксгафен”
  • Uzbek: “Cuxhaven”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Cuxhaven”
  • Welsh: “Cuxhaven”
  • Western Frisian: “Cuxhaven”
  • Western Panjabi: “ککسہیون”
  • Wolof: “Cuxhaven”
  • Wu Chinese: “库克斯港”
  • Zulu: “Cuxhaven”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cuxhaven”. Photo: Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 3.0.