Wedel, Urban municipality in Pinneberg, Germany.
Description
Wedel is a town on the northern bank of the Elbe River in Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein. The municipality covers 33.81 square kilometers and has 34,617 residents.
History
The first written record dates from 1212, when this was still a small settlement. Later the place became a trading center for cattle along the Oxen Way.
Culture
The Roland statue from 1450 stands in the market square and shows how the town saw itself as a free community. People once gathered here for trade days, and today locals still use the square as an everyday meeting point.
Practical
The town has several secondary schools, a private university, and facilities for vocational education. Visitors can orient themselves along the main streets that run through the center and toward the riverbank.
Did you know?
A Royal Air Force bombing raid in 1943 destroyed seventy percent of the buildings. The postwar reconstruction still shapes the townscape today with its younger structures.
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Unterfeuer Wittenbergen
4 km
Roland
159 mErnst Barlach Museum Wedel
79 m
Oberfeuer Tinsdal
3.3 km
Wittenbergen
3.8 km
Hatzburg
1.4 km
Badebucht
722 m
Theaterschiff Batavia
377 mWasserturm Möller-Wedel
593 m
Stadtmuseum Wedel
243 m
Hetlingen chapel
5.1 km
Neßsand
3.2 km
Villa Ladiges
1.2 km
Theaterschiff Batavia
379 m
Immanuelkirche
179 m
Immanuelkirche mit Ausstattung
182 m
Somfletherwisch Unterfeuer
4.3 km
Mielstack Unterfeuer
4.2 km
Wohnhaus
126 m
Reepschlägerhaus
576 m
Am Marktplatz 10
112 m
Theodor-Johannsen-Siedlung (Goethestraße)
303 mBrunnen
687 mBrunnen
1.2 km
Mühlenstraße 28
121 m
Theodor-Johannsen-Siedlung (Mozartstraße)
1.4 kmGalgenberg 29–29b
1.8 km
Somfletherwisch Oberfeuer
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