Wedel
Wedel is a city west of Hamburg. It sits on the banks of the river Elbe. Its main claim to fame is the "ship welcoming machine" that greets every ship heading up the river to Hamburg with its flag and national anthem.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wedel station and Welcome Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rissen.
Rissen
Suburb
Wedel
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Pinneberg, South Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.581° or 53° 34′ 52″ north
Longitude
9.7039° or 9° 42′ 14″ east
Population
32,300
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
9F5FHPJ3+CH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wedel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wedel”
- Arabic: “فيدل”
- Aragonese: “Wedel”
- Armenian: “Վեդել”
- Arpitan: “Wedel”
- Asturian: “Wedel”
- Basque: “Wedel”
- Bavarian: “Wedel”
- Belarusian: “Ведэль”
- Breton: “Wedel”
- Catalan: “Wedel”
- Cebuano: “Wedel”
- Chinese: “韦德尔”
- Corsican: “Wedel”
- Croatian: “Wedel”
- Czech: “Wedel”
- Danish: “Wedel”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wedel”
- Dutch: “Wedel”
- Esperanto: “Wedel”
- Estonian: “Wedel”
- Finnish: “Wedel”
- French: “Wedel”
- Friulian: “Wedel”
- Galician: “Wedel”
- German: “Wedel”
- Hungarian: “Wedel”
- Icelandic: “Wedel”
- Ido: “Wedel”
- Indonesian: “Wedel”
- Interlingua: “Wedel”
- Interlingue: “Wedel”
- Irish: “Wedel”
- Italian: “Wedel”
- Japanese: “ヴェーデル”
- Jèrriais: “Wedel”
- Kazakh: “Ведель”
- Kirghiz: “Ведель”
- Kongo: “Wedel”
- Korean: “베델”
- Kurdish: “Wedel”
- Ladin: “Wedel”
- Ligurian: “Wedel”
- Limburgan: “Wedel”
- Lithuanian: “Vėdelis”
- Low German: “Wedel”
- Luxembourgish: “Wedel”
- Macedonian: “Ведел”
- Malagasy: “Wedel”
- Malay: “Wedel”
- Minangkabau: “Wedel”
- Neapolitan: “Wedel”
- Northern Frisian: “Wedel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wedel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wedel”
- Norwegian: “Wedel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wedel”
- Persian: “ودل”
- Picard: “Wedel”
- Piemontese: “Wedel”
- Polish: “Wedel”
- Portuguese: “Wedel”
- Romanian: “Wedel”
- Romansh: “Wedel”
- Russian: “Ведель”
- Sardinian: “Wedel”
- Scots: “Wedel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wedel”
- Serbian: “Wedel”
- Serbian: “Ведел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wedel”
- Sicilian: “Wedel”
- Silesian: “Wedel”
- Slovak: “Wedel”
- Slovenian: “Wedel”
- South Azerbaijani: “ودل”
- Spanish: “Wedel”
- Swahili: “Wedel”
- Swedish: “Wedel”
- Swiss German: “Wedel”
- Tatar: “Ведель”
- Tumbuka: “Wedel”
- Turkish: “Wedel”
- Ukrainian: “Ведель”
- Uzbek: “Wedel”
- Venetian: “Wedel”
- Vietnamese: “Wedel”
- Vlaams: “Wedel”
- Volapük: “Wedel”
- Walloon: “Wedel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wedel”
- Welsh: “Wedel”
- Wolof: “Wedel”
- Zulu: “Wedel”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Schulau West and Altstadt.
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Worth a closer look: Neumünster and Itzehoe.
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