Land Hadeln

Land Hadeln is a place in Northern Germany. It is a historic landscape and used to be an administrative district. Its seat is in Otterndorf on the Lower Elbe, the lower reaches of the Elbe River, in the Elbe-Weser Triangle between the estuaries of the Elbe and Weser rivers.

The coat-of-arms with the patron saint, Saint Nicholas in bishop's robes
The Otterndorf Sluice and its pumping station. Right: the "diesel" pumphouse (nowadays also driven by an electric engine), left: the electric pumphouse.
Land flooded by a 'small' storm surge of only 4.50 m when a dyke broke at Glameyer Stack, Otterndorf.

References

    Sources
    • Eduard Rüther: Hadler Chronik. Quellenbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Hadeln. 1932; reedited Bremerhaven: 1979.
    • Norbert Fischer: Im Antlitz der Nordsee – Zur Geschichte der Deiche in Hadeln; Stade 2007: ISBN 978-3-931879-34-1

    Other websites

    53°45.18′N 8°50.46′E

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