Wedel, Urban municipality in Pinneberg, Germany.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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