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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Wedel station and Welcome Point.
Wedel station
Railway station
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Wedel station is a railway station on the Altona-Blankenese line, served by the rapid transit trains of the Hamburg S-Bahn, located in Wedel, Germany. It is a terminus of the line S1.
Welcome Point
The Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage Willkomm-Höft is a facility at the Schulauer Fährhaus in Schulau, the southern district of Wedel on the Lower Elbe. It was founded by Otto Friedrich Behnke on 12 June 1952.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rissen.
Rissen
Suburb
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Rissen is a quarter of the city of Hamburg in Germany. It is located in the borough of Altona and is the westernmost quarter of Hamburg, bordering the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in the west, north, and northeast and the Elbe river to the south. Rissen is situated 3½ km east of Wedel.
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″ northLongitude
9.7039° or 9° 42′ 14″ eastPopulation
32,300Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
9F5FHPJ3+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 69358157OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6547477Wikidata ID
Q4356
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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”
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- Galician: “Wedel”
- German: “Wedel”
- Hungarian: “Wedel”
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- Ido: “Wedel”
- Indonesian: “Wedel”
- Interlingua: “Wedel”
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- Irish: “Wedel”
- Italian: “Wedel”
- Japanese: “ヴェーデル”
- 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”
- Narom: “Wedel”
- Neapolitan: “Wedel”
- Northern Frisian: “Wedel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wedel (by)”
- 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”
- 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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