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German submarine Wilhelm Bauer

German submarine Wilhelm Bauer is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy, completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol.
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  • Opening hours: April 1st—November 11th 8:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Email: webmaster@u-boot-wilhelm-bauer.de
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: 1945 Type XXI submarine
  • Also known as: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include German Maritime Museum and Columbus-Center Bremerhaven.

Museum
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The is a museum in , Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president of Germany Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971. is situated 140 metres south of German submarine Wilhelm Bauer.

Shopping center
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is a shopping center, which is situated 130 metres north of German submarine Wilhelm Bauer.

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is situated 300 metres northwest of German submarine Wilhelm Bauer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and Bremerhaven.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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is a medium-sized town in the , on the outer Weser in northwestern . It is famous for its large harbour, one of the biggest in Germany for passenger traffic, apart from .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

German submarine Wilhelm Bauer

Latitude
53.54143° or 53° 32′ 29″ north
Longitude
8.57778° or 8° 34′ 40″ east
Inception
1945
Operator
Erich Wilke
Open location code
9F5CGHRH+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 128422812
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q683457
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“German submarine Wilhelm Bauer” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الغواصة الألمانية يو-2540”
  • Chinese: “U-2540号潜艇”
  • Chinese: “威廉·鲍姆号潜艇”
  • Czech: “Wilhelm Bauer (1945)”
  • Czech: “Wilhelm Bauer (Y888)”
  • Czech: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Dutch: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • French: “U-2540”
  • French: “Unterseeboot 2540”
  • German: “U 2540”
  • German: “U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer”
  • German: “Unterseeboot 2540”
  • German: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Hungarian: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Japanese: “U2540”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルヘルム・バウアー”
  • Persian: “زیردریایی ویلهلم باوئر”
  • Polish: “U-2540”
  • Polish: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Russian: “U-2540”
  • Russian: “Вильгельм Бауэр”
  • Slovenian: “U 2540”
  • Slovenian: “U-2540”
  • Slovenian: “U2540”
  • Spanish: “Submarino Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Spanish: “U 2540 «Wilhelm Bauer»”
  • Spanish: “U 2540”
  • Spanish: “U-2540 «Wilhelm Bauer»”
  • Spanish: “U-2540”
  • Spanish: “Wilhelm Bauer”
  • Swedish: “U-2540”
  • “Wilhelm Bauer”

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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 “German submarine Wilhelm Bauer”. Photo: Vulkan, CC BY-SA 3.0.