CUXHAVEN

kooksˈhäfən, city (1994 pop. 56,000), Lower Saxony, N Germany, at the mouth of the Elbe River. A North Sea fishing and shipping port, it is also a summer resort. Shipbuilding and fish-processing are its chief industries. From 1394 to 1937, Cuxhaven was held by Hamburg.

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books on: Cuxhaven  - 235 results

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The Port of Hamburg
Book by Edwin J. Clapp; Yale University Press, 1911
Subjects: Hamburg (Germany)--Commerce, Hamburg (Germany)--Harbor, Shipping--Germany--Hamburg
...river. There were already two basins at Cuxhaven; in 1895 a third was constructed. The...intention seemed to be to transfer to Cuxhaven the freight and passenger terminus of...the steamship company acquired land in Cuxhaven, and began to erect houses for the captains...
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Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol. 1
Book by Earl Leslie Griggs; Clarendon Press, 2000
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834--Correspondence, Poets, English--19th Century--Correspondence
...towards me.-Eleven oclock -- arrive at Cuxhaven, which if you cannot find in the map...the Hanoverian and a few others over to Cuxhaven -- The Captain agreed to take us all...and passed gently up the river -- At Cuxhaven in clear weather both sides of the river...
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Napoleon's Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition
Book by Frederick C. Schneid; Praeger, 2005
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1815, Europe--Politics And Government--1789-1815, France--History, Military--1789-1815, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Military Leadership, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
that French troops entered Cuxhaven and Ritzbuttel, seizing English...the criticism of the occupation of Cuxhaven, focusing more on the blockade of...Prussian goodwill. Mortier raided Cuxhaven and Hamburg to seize English goods...
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The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley
Book by George William Curtis; Harper & Brothers, 1889
Subjects: Fiction
...UNIVERSITY LIFE. First voyage to Europe--Cuxhaven--The weather during the voyage...Mother . Brig Cyclops , at anchor off Cuxhaven, mouth of Elbe, Thursday evening...for the night off a small town called Cuxhaven, just at
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Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe, 400-900
Book by Helena Hamerow; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Agricultural Geography--Europe, Western, Agriculture--Europe, Western--History, Europe, Western--Antiquities, Europe, Western--Rural Conditions--History, Land Settlement--Europe, Western
...Langh5user in F16geln-Eekh6ltjen, Kr. Cuxhaven, Probleme der Kiistenforscbung, 16...Dalem, Gem. Langen- Neuenwalde, Kr. Cuxhaven, in B6hme (ed.): 37-46. -1991b...295-312. -2001, Loxstedt, Ldkr. Cuxhaven, in Reallexicon der Germanischen Altertum...
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journal articles on: Cuxhaven  - 10 results

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Commentary
Journal article by John Matthias; Chicago Review, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: Literary criticism, Poetry
...after Childerss participation in The Cuxhaven Raid in December, 1914-a raid that...coastline from Dunkirk north to Borkum and Cuxhaven can be found in Robert Massies history...continued listening up to and beyond the Cuxhaven Raid of December, 1914. From the first...
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Foreign Students in Nazi Germany
Journal article by Bela Bodo; East European Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Foreign policy--Evaluation, Foreign policy--History, Foreign students--History, Foreign students--Management, German history, Germany--History, Germany--Political aspects, National socialists--History, National socialists--International relations, National socialists--Social policy, Students, Foreign--History, Students, Foreign--Management
...Arbitut as the basis of admission. The University Conference in Cuxhaven in 1924 recommended this system as a model for individual universities...Foreign Offices proposal. At the University Conference in Cuxhaven in September 1924, the education ministries accepted the principle...
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Inner Space
Journal article by Alphonso Lingis; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 43, 2010
Subjects: Gormley, Antony--Criticism and interpretation, Gormley, Antony--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--United Kingdom
...features and his body effaced. They were first set up in 1997 over an area of 2.5 square kilometres in mud flats outside Cuxhaven, Germany, which was one of the major ports for emigration to America in the middle of the last century.6 The figures look...
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Hysteron Proteron in Gravity's Rainbow
Journal article by Steven Weisenburger; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 34, 1992
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...like the concoction of kreplach, the reassembly of a V-2 (with its historical counterpart in actual Allied activities at Cuxhaven, in September 1945), precisely replays the story of reciprocal violence and absolute power played out in Mom and Pops house...
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El Anatsui: Transformations
Journal article by Lisa M. Binder; African Arts, Vol. 41, 2008
Subjects: African artists--Criticism and interpretation, African artists--Works, Anatsui, El--Criticism and interpretation, Anatsui, El--Works, Artists, African--Criticism and interpretation, Artists, African--Works, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculptors--Works
...earthworks or stage landscape interventions. Indeed, Anatsui famously created the earth-sculpture, Altar, in 1984 at Cuxhaven, Germany, and staged the performance "Offering to the Weather" in conjunction with it (Anatsui 1997:178-9; see also...
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magazine articles on: Cuxhaven  - 5 results

 
 
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Festschrift Zur Wiedereinweihung der Historischen Orgel Zu Cuxhaven-altenbruch
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 43, August 2009
Festschrift Zur Wiedereinweihung der Historischen Orgel Zu Cuxhaven-altenbruch FESTSCHRIFT ZUR WIEDEREINWEIHUNG DER HISTORISCHEN ORGEL ZU CUXHAVEN-ALTENBRUCH, ed. Ingo Duwensee. Altenbruch: Kirchengemeinde Altenbruch, 2004. 113 pp...
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New at the Ohs's American Organ Archives: Two Volumes of Newly Discovered German Tablatures
Magazine article by Lynn Edwards Butler; The Tracker, Vol. 52, Summer 2008
...It reproduces tablature fragments that are among the holdings of the church congregation in Ludingworth, a village east of Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe River in North Germany. (Ludingworth is well known today for its Schnitger organ, a three-manual...
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The Fate of Hitler's Surrendered U-boats
Magazine article by Jacques Shreyvogel; Sea Classics, Vol. 38, July 2005
...technology. Though none of the highly-advanced Walter submarines were captured intact, the scuttled U-1406 was later raised at Cuxhaven and shipped to the United States in September 1945 for extensive testing. Her secrets revealed, U-1406 was scrapped at...
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Making Waves: Curators and Prize Committees Love Him. Yet Antony Gormley's Critics Accuse Him of Arrogance and Complacency. Now He Has Dotted Crosby Beach with Life-Size Casts of His Own Body. Richard Cork on the Inventiveness and Surprising Humour of Britain's Most Ambitious Sculptor
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 134, August 8, 2005
Subjects: Beaches--Analysis, Beaches--Safety and security measures, Beaches--Social aspects
...collective title, Another Place, conveys Gormleys fascination with the theme of emigration. The work was initially produced for Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony, where many fearful Germans embarked for the United States during the Naziera. The naked men at Crosby may...
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Letters
Magazine article; African Business, April 2001
...against the fundamentalists who pretend to act in his name. For religious tolerance and a peaceful cooperation! Frank Stennar Cuxhaven Germany. * Extremists of all types, whether they be Islamic, Christian, Hindu or Jewish fundamentalists, Neo-Nazis...


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newspaper articles on: Cuxhaven  - 23 results

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In League with History; Hanseatic Ports Echo Steps of German Merchants, Emigrants
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 22, 2005
Subjects: Lothar, Corinna
...together with Hamburg and the port of Cuxhaven, for millions of Northern Europeans...the American Revolution set sail from Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven by the thousands between...while others returned to Germany. The Cuxhaven Steubenhoft terminal, the most modern...
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Beach Combing on the German Coast; Andy Elliott Rolls Up His Trousers, Dons a Knotted Hanky and Hires a Strandkorb
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 20, 2006
...taken the DFDS ferry, Duchess of Scandinavia, from Harwich to Cuxhaven in north west Germany. DFDS holidays in Holland, Scandinavia...meals, because its much cheaper than paying on board. From Cuxhaven, if youre heading north, you dont have to go all the way...
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Weekender: Travel: Enjoy a Ferry Nice Weekend; THINK AGAIN ABOUT YOUR PORT OF CALL
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 7, 2004
...Book through www.hover speed.com 08705 240 82 82. Harwich - Cuxhaven ANCIENT ports, enchanting castles and stunning beaches make a great holiday combination. From Cuxhaven you can enjoy the old maritime town of Schleswig and Schwerin, with...
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Baltic Sea Ferry Burns after Blast
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 10, 2010
Subjects: Explosions, News agencies, The Associated Press
...terrorist attack can be excluded," said Wolfgang Harlos, a spokesman for Germanys Central Command for Maritime Emergencies in Cuxhaven. Schleswig-Holstein state police spokesman Stefan Jung added, "the investigation is ongoing, but all indications so far...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 3, 2011
...stepdaughters, Kelly and Pam; a stepson, Todd; two sisters, Lydia Jorgenson of California and Marianna Osterndorff of Cuxhaven, Germany; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A stepdaughter died previously. Arrangements by Dunes Memorial...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cuxhaven  - 4 results

 
 
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Cuxhaven
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUXHAVEN kooks haf n, city (1994 pop. 56,000), Lower Saxony, N Germany...Shipbuilding and fish-processing are its chief industries. From 1394 to 1937, Cuxhaven was held by Hamburg. ____________________ Copyright...
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Lower Saxony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Emsland, large iron-ore deposits at Watenstedt-Salzgitter, and lignite mines near Helmstedt. Emden, Wilhelmshaven, and Cuxhaven are the chief North Sea ports. The region of Lower Saxony has had no historic unity since 1180, when Emperor Frederick I...
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Hamburg , City, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...destroyed much of the city. After World War I Hamburg was briefly (1918 19) a socialist republic. In 1937 the city ceded Cuxhaven , its outlying port, to Prussia, but incorporated the neighboring towns of Altona , Harburg , and Wandsbek. During World...
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Elbe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...what was the East German West German border before flowing across N central Germany (past Hamburg) and into the North Sea at Cuxhaven. In Hamburg, the river divides into two arms before forming a 60-mi-long (97-km) estuary. The chief tributaries...


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