Stade Travel Guide
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Stade Overview
Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg (Hamburg vacation rentals | Hamburg travel guide) Metropolitan Region. It is the seat of the district named after it. The city was first mentioned in a document from 994.
Stade includes the bigger villages of Bützfleth, Hagen (Hagen vacation rentals | Hagen travel guide) and Haddorf, which have sub-villages themselves. Stade is located on the German Framework Road.
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Things to See in Stade
The old city of Stade houses a number of notable architectural monuments. Among them the St. Cosmae et Damiani Lutheran Church, the Wilhadi Lutheran Church, the historic town house, the "Schwedenspeicher" and the "Zeughaus".
Near Stade there are the gigantic pylons of Elbe Crossing 1 and Elbe Crossing 2. The pylons of Elbe Crossing 2 are the tallest in Europe and the sixth-tallest in the world.
Der Hansehafen
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Maps and Driving Directions to Stade
In late 2007, the metropolitan rail line (S-Bahn) S3 was extended from Hamburg to Stade. Trains depart Stade station every 20 minutes (at peak times) and reach central Hamburg in less than an hour. The new transit connection is expected to increase the city's attractiveness for commuters as well as businesses, although the absence of a service after midnight remains a bone of contention for many town residents.
Dozent Insel Brunnen
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Stade: Stade (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Stade
More about the History of Stade
In past decades, Stade has benefited greatly from the presence of chemical and aerospace industry at the Elbe River, such as Dow Chemical and Airbus. There is also a nuclear power plant at the Elbe River, which was connected to the power grid in 1972, making it Germany's second oldest reactor. Following Germany's 2002 decision to phase out nuclear power generation, Stade was the first German plant to be affected, closing down permanently on November 14, 2003. The process of dismantling the facility is supposed to be completed by 2015. Close to the nuclear plant there is an inactive oil-fired power station, the Schilling Power Station.
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