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Weser

53 32 '08 "N 8 33' 56" E / 53.5356, 8.56556

Weser
Downstream of Holzminden .
Basin of the Weser.
Features
Length	452 km
Basin	48 800 km ²
Average Flow	³ 325 m s ^-1
Courses
Flows into	North Sea
Geography
Countries crossed	Germany

Weser to Bremen

The Weser is a river German born from the meeting of two rivers, the Werra and Fulda , which came together in Lower Saxony to Hannoversch Mnden. It flows into the North Sea near Bremerhaven in a large estuary after a course of 452 km. In this estuary on a course of 89 km occurs the phenomenon of tidal wave. The Weser has allowed the development of major ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The couple Werra Weser + totals 750 km, 670 km cons for Fulda + Weser.

Etymologically the name of the "Weser" and "Werra" stem from the same source, the differentiation is due to the former border between the Upper and Lower German German touched the region of Hannoversch Mnden " , City of confluence of two rivers.

The Weser is, with the Ems , the only German river flowing into the sea which is run entirely on German territory.

Weser runs through the hilly area of the region's tourism Weserbergland , she left the Porta Westfalica south of Minden. North of Minden, it crosses the Mittellandkanal (the "Canal du Centre" German), which crosses the river through a canal bridge. Then, in the great plain of northern Germany, it forms numerous meandering. There, his course is very fitted with canals, locks, etc.. It receives several tributaries, including Diemel , the Go (with Leine , River Hanover ) and Hunte , the river of Oldenburg.

Major cities crossed by the Weser

Weser name is feminine in French in 2008, like its German name (die Weser), but in 1811 the administration Napoleon created a department called the Bouches-du-Weser ^{See also}

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Weser is also the German name of a river the Belgian-German Weser tributary of the Ourthe. Do not confuse these two rivers.
Vzre , pronunciation and etymological root near identical, flowing into France.
This river gave its name to the Weserbung operation , codenamed Operation for military invasion of Denmark and Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Weser Renaissance style

References

The French author Samivel in his short story The Pied Piper of Hamelin always uses the masculine to refer to this river.

Rivers of Germany
5000 km>	Danube
3000 km>	Elba Rhine
500 km>	Ems Weser
300 km>	Eider Peene Trave Uecker Warnow
100 km>	Recknitz Schwentine
50 km>	Schlei
Portals water and Germany