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Neuwerk

Neuwerk is a 3-km² tidal island in the Wadden Sea off the coast of . You can walk around it in an hour. Salt marshes, lie outside the dikes and provide a hatchery for birds such as oystercatchers, common terns, sandwich terns, black-headed gull, and herring gulls.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: Wadden Sea island on the German North Sea coast
  • Also known as: “Neewark”, “New-Werk”, and “Newwark”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Photo: Aeroid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Tower Neuwerk and Ostbake.

Photo: Milseburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the most significant building of the Neuwerk island, belonging to . Completed in 1310, the structure is one of the oldest worldwide that was used as lighthouse and still standing.

Historic site
Photo: Aeroid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic site.

Cemetery
Photo: Aeroid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a cemetery.

Neuwerk

Latitude
53.9222° or 53° 55′ 20″ north
Longitude
8.5025° or 8° 30′ 9″ east
Population
36
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
Open location code
9F5CWGC2+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4102274
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2863852
Wiki­data ID
Q1622
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Neuwerk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Neuwerk”
  • Arabic: “نورك”
  • Aragonese: “Neuwerk”
  • Arpitan: “Neuwerk”
  • Asturian: “Neuwerk”
  • Basque: “Neuwerk”
  • Bavarian: “Neuwerk”
  • Breton: “Neuwerk”
  • Bulgarian: “Нойверк”
  • Catalan: “Neewark”
  • Catalan: “Neuwerk”
  • Cebuano: “Neuwerk”
  • Chinese: “諾伊韋克”
  • Corsican: “Neuwerk”
  • Croatian: “Neuwerk”
  • Czech: “Neuwerk”
  • Danish: “Neuwerk”
  • Dutch: “Neuwerk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نورك”
  • Esperanto: “Neuwerk”
  • Estonian: “Neuwerk”
  • Finnish: “Neuwerk”
  • French: “Neuwerk”
  • Friulian: “Neuwerk”
  • Galician: “Neuwerk”
  • German: “Dat Nie Werk”
  • German: “Dat Nieuwe Werck”
  • German: “Neue Werck”
  • German: “Neuwerckh”
  • German: “Neuwerk”
  • German: “Newwerck”
  • German: “Nige Ooge”
  • German: “Nige Wark”
  • German: “Nuge uirk”
  • German: “O”
  • Hebrew: “נויוורק”
  • Hungarian: “Neuwerk”
  • Icelandic: “Neuwerk”
  • Ido: “Neuwerk”
  • Indonesian: “Neuwerk”
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  • Irish: “Neuwerk”
  • Italian: “Neuwerk”
  • Japanese: “ノイヴェルク島”
  • Kongo: “Neuwerk”
  • Latin: “Neuwerk”
  • Ligurian: “Neuwerk”
  • Limburgan: “Neuwerk”
  • Low German: “Neewark”
  • Low German: “Neuwerk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neuwerk”
  • Macedonian: “Нојверк”
  • Malagasy: “Neuwerk”
  • Malay: “Neuwerk”
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  • Neapolitan: “Neuwerk”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neuwerk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Neuwerk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Neuwerk”
  • Norwegian: “Neuwerk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Neuwerk”
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  • Piemontese: “Neuwerk”
  • Polish: “Neuwerk”
  • Portuguese: “Neuwerk”
  • Romanian: “Neuwerk”
  • Romansh: “Neuwerk”
  • Russian: “Neuwerk”
  • Russian: “Нойверк (остров)”
  • Russian: “Нойверк”
  • Sardinian: “Neuwerk”
  • Scots: “Neuwerk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Neuwerk”
  • Serbian: “Neuwerk”
  • Sicilian: “Neuwerk”
  • Slovak: “Neuwerk”
  • Slovenian: “Neuwerk”
  • Spanish: “Neuwerk”
  • Swahili: “Neuwerk”
  • Swedish: “Neuwerk”
  • Swiss German: “Neuwerk”
  • Ukrainian: “Нойверк”
  • Venetian: “Neuwerk”
  • Vietnamese: “Neuwerk”
  • Vlaams: “Neuwerk”
  • Volapük: “Neuwerk”
  • Walloon: “Neuwerk”
  • Welsh: “Neuwerk”
  • Western Frisian: “Neuwerk”
  • Wolof: “Neuwerk”
  • Zulu: “Neuwerk”

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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 “Neuwerk”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.