Nordenham ( German pronunciation: [nɔʁdn̩ˈham] ) is a town in the Wesermarsch district, in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is located at the mouth (on the west bank) of the Weser river on the Butjadingen peninsula on the coast of the North Sea . The seaport city of Bremerhaven is located on the other side (east bank) of the river. The Midgard-seaport in Nordenham is the largest private-owned harbor in Germany.
23-1030: Nordenham is located on the West Bank of the Weser River across from Bremerhaven along the river's mouth at the North Sea , north of the cities of Bremen and Oldenburg . The local environment is mainly marshland , specifically Marsch oder Schwemmland . Nordenham is composed of 35 districts, each with a long history as a separate community: Abbehausen, Abbehauser Groden, Abbehauser Hörne, Abbehauserwisch, Atens, Atenserfeld, Blexen, Blexersande, Blexerwurp, Bulterweg, Butterburg, Einswarden, Ellwürden, Enjebuhr, Esenshamm, Esenshammer Altendeich, Esenshammer Oberdeich, Esenshammergroden, Friedrich-August-Hütte, Grebswarden, Großensiel, Havendorf, Heering, Hoffe, Kloster, Moorseersand, Oberdeich, Phiesewarden, Rahden, Sarve, Schockumerdeich, Schweewarden, Schütting, Tettens, Treuenfeld, and Volkers. Two nearby islands are also part of
46-622: Is a ferry to Bremerhaven at Blexen, though it has suffered from steady declines in passenger numbers ever since the Weser tunnel some 10 km south of Nordenham opened. The town is connected to the regional road network by Bundesstraße 212 which intersects with Bundesstraße 437 near the Weser tunnel, offering connections to the A 27 and A 28 motorways. Nordenham can be reached by RegionalExpress trains; Nordenham railway station sees hourly trains to Bremen. Nordenham has been integrated into
69-672: Is an S-Bahn network in Germany, covering the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region , from Bremerhaven in the north to Twistringen in the south and Bad Zwischenahn and Oldenburg in the west. It has been in operation since 2010. This network unified existing regional transport in Bremen as well as surrounding cities, including Bremerhaven , Delmenhorst , Twistringen , Nordenham , Oldenburg , and Verden an der Aller . The network lies completely within
92-791: Is linked west to the Dortmund–Ems Canal via the Coastal Canal . It is linked east at Bremerhaven to the Elbe . A large reservoir, the Edersee , on the Eder , the main tributary of the Fulda, is used to allow enough water depth for shipping year-round. The dam, built in 1914, was bombed and severely damaged by British aircraft in May 1943, causing great destruction and about 70 deaths downstream. It
115-541: The Bremen S-Bahn network since its opening in 2010. A large part of the population of the town - approximately 4,500 persons - is employed in industrial companies including Prysmian , Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) , Premium Aerotec , Rhenus Midgard , Kronos Titan , Xstrata and NKT Cables Weser The Weser ( pronounced [ˈveːzɐ] ) is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany . It begins at Hannoversch Münden through
138-679: The County of Oldenburg and in 1813 by the French emperor Napoleon , whose army shot ten local inhabitants at the church in Blexen. On May 1, 1908 Nordenham was granted 2nd class town rights and since 1955 Nordenham is an independent town in the Wesermarsch district. Due to government industrialisation programs in the 1960s and 1970s, various industries opened plants in Nordenham. Among others,
161-714: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . In summer 2011, the Farge to Vegesack section was due to be electrified. The new timetable due to be introduced in autumn 2011 provides for the trains to divide at Vegesack and continue to Farge. In the 1970s, the state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen first planned both regional train and underground systems. The S-Bahn was intended to connect the city with surrounding municipalities. It wasn't meant to completely operate underground, but rather as an independent rail system that would also connect different city neighborhoods. An underground line
184-610: The Werra (a dialectal form of Weser ), is 744 km (462 mi) long and thus, the longest river entirely situated within Germany (the Main , however, is the longest if the Weser and Werra are not combined). The Weser itself is 452 km (281 mi) long. The Werra rises in Thuringia , the German state south of the main projection (tongue) of Lower Saxony. "Weser" and "Werra" are
207-640: The confluence of the Werra and Fulda . It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen . Its mouth is 50 km (31 mi) further north against the ports of Bremerhaven and Nordenham . The latter is on the Butjadingen Peninsula . It then merges into the North Sea via two highly saline , estuarine mouths. It connects to the canal network running east–west across the North German Plain . The river, when combined with
230-652: The Frisians, died in Blexen in the year 789, which is also commonly accepted to be Blexen's year of foundation. In 1407, the Vredeborch or Friedeburg (to be translated as "peace castle") was erected by the Hanseatic city of Bremen , a castle (although it was probably more a kind of large fortified house) to protect interests against the rebellious inhabitants, the Rüstringer Frisians . The stronghold
253-665: The area of the Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen (VBN; Bremen/Lower Saxony Transport Association), whose tariff structure applies. Since December 2022, the network of the NordWestBahn around Bremen consists of six lines. Two of the lines are cross-city routes ; three others are radial lines that begin and end at the Bremen Hauptbahnhof and the sixth is a tangential line that does not connect directly to Bremen. The RS 1 line
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#1732786918522276-698: The confluence of the Fulda and the Werra. It then runs down to the Porta Westfalica between two high hill ranges, the Wiehengebirge , west and the Weserbergland in the east. Between Minden and the North Sea, humans have largely canalised the river up to a limit of 1,200-ton ships. Eight hydroelectric dams stand at the ends of adjacent weirstreams that make up the river. The navigation
299-464: The main industries are a nuclear power plant near Esenshamm , which politically belongs to the neighbouring borough of Stadland, airplane construction ( Premium AEROTEC ) and chemical industry. On the Butjadingen peninsula outside Nordenham people do dairy farming or work in the tourism industry. Nordenham is twinned with: Due to the town's location, transport connections are below par. There
322-532: The ports of Bremerhaven , Nordenham , and Bremen . The Alte Weser Lighthouse marks the northernmost point of the Weser. This replaced the Roter Sand Lighthouse in 1964. The largest tributary of the Weser is the Aller , which joins south of Bremen. Tributaries of the Weser and the Werra (from source to mouth) are: Modes of the list: List: Main towns along the Weser are (from the head of
345-764: The reopening to passenger traffic in 2007 of the Farge-Vegesack railway. Currently, the R1 line connects Bremen-Vegesack and Bremen Hbf every half hour, and every quarter-hour during peak hours. The line between Vegesack and Farge has a half-hourly service. The segment between Bremen Hbf and Verden is served hourly, and half-hourly at peak periods. The push-pull trains consist of four to five bilevel cars (double-decker carriages) without climate control and one control car . These are driven by either DB Class 111 or DB Class 143 electric locomotives. The bilevel cars will be replaced with multiple units in 2011 with finance from
368-528: The river to its mouth): Hann. Münden , Beverungen , Höxter , Holzminden , Bodenwerder , Hamelin , Hessisch Oldendorf , Rinteln , Vlotho , Bad Oeynhausen , Porta Westfalica , Minden , Petershagen , Nienburg , Achim , Bremen , Brake , Nordenham , Bremerhaven . The river features in the legend and folk tale the Pied Piper of Hamelin . Bremen S-Bahn [REDACTED] The Bremen S-Bahn ( German : Regio-S-Bahn Bremen/Niedersachsen )
391-988: The same words in different dialects. The difference reflects the old linguistic border between Central and Low German , passing through Hannoversch Münden. The name likely derives from the Old Germanic *waisōn "flow, ooze". It is cognate with the Wear in England and Vistula (Polish Wisła, German Weichsel) in Poland, all of which are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root * weys- "to flow", which also gives rise to Old English/Old Frisian wāse "mud, ooze", Old Norse veisa "slime, stagnant pool", Dutch waas "haze; soggy land" (see Waasland ), Old Saxon waso "wet ground, mire", Old High German wasal "rain" and French vase "mud, sludge". The Weser starts at
414-482: The town: Langlütjen I und Langlütjen II. Nordenham evolved from the town of Atens due to the efforts by merchant Wilhelm Müller who traded cattle and sheep to England in the late 19th century. Some of the oldest parts of the modern town area are the old villages or Wurtendörfer (roughly translated as ' terp villages') Blexen , Einswarden and Atens . Bishop Willehad , the Northumbrian -born missionary of
437-482: Was created from the previous R1 service, which served all stations between Bremen-Vegesack and Verden . This line forms the backbone of the system, as it runs parallel to the Weser river through the whole city and the south-easterly axis of settlement in the district of Verden . The line provides the only rail-based transport in the Bremen-Nord district, and from 2011 it was due to be extended further following
460-467: Was destroyed in 1425 and it is possible that the site was later used by a monastery. Nordenham's town founder Wilhelm Müller later built his farm house and a restaurant on the same site. In 1959 those were demolished and the still existing community hall was built there. The town hall was built in 1953 and moved into by the local authority in January 1954. Between 1499 and 1514, the area was conquered by
483-559: Was planned to go through Delmenhorst, Huchting, Neustadt, city center, Hemelingen, Kirchweyhe , Syke , and Twistringen. A temporary panel of the Bürgerschaft , which gathered the findings after 19 months of planning, pedestrian zones , closely spaced stops, and park and ride lots at the termini of the lines were planned as well. Due to financial and technical difficulties and political opposition, these plans were not realized. A fleet of 35 Alstom Coradia Continental EMUs operate on
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#1732786918522506-487: Was rebuilt within four months. The reservoir is a major summer resort area. Turbines driven by its sluices provide electricity . The Weser enters the North Sea in the southernmost part of the German Bight . In the sea it splits into two arms – the riverbed at the end of the last ice age . These sea arms are called Alte Weser (old Weser) and Neue Weser (new Weser). They are the waterways for ships heading for
529-544: Was to run from Delmenhorst through Huchting , Bremen Airport , the city center, University of Bremen , and Borgfeld and end in Lilienthal . Line S 1 was to run from Schwanewede through the city center, Sebaldsbrück, Mahndorf, and Achim and end in Verden. Line S 2 was to run from Osterholz-Scharmbeck through Ritterhude , Marßel, Burglesum, Findorff, University of Bremen , Oberneuland, and Rotenburg . The third line
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