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.

Elbe Crossing 1 ( center ) and 2 ( right, one mast only )

Elbe Crossing 1 is a group of masts providing an overhead crossing of a 220 kV three-phase alternating current electric powerline across the River Elbe.

Elbe Crossing 1 was supplemented in the 1970s by Elbe Crossing 2.

The two main pylons of Elbe Crossing 2

It was constructed between 1976 and 1978 to supplement Elbe Crossing 1, and consists of four towers:

This makes the pylons of Elbe Crossing 2 the tallest pylons used for carrying currents for traction current.

On the Elbe Crossing 1 tower, there is a radar facility belonging to the Hamburg water and navigation office.

The two main pylons of " Elbe Crossing 2 ", crossing the German river Elbe

Two well-known wide river crossings are the Elbe Crossing 1 and Elbe Crossing 2.

The pylons of Messina were the model for the Elbe Crossing 1 in Germany and were, until the completion of Elbe Crossing 2, the tallest pylons of the world.

It is 430 km long and drains about 28, 090 km < sup > 2 </ sup >; at their confluence the Vltava actually has more water than the Elbe, but joins the Elbe at a right angle to its flow so that it appears a mere tributary.

These were successful at covering the Austrian rear, keeping the bridges over the Elbe open for retreating Austrian soldiers, and preventing pursuit by the Prussians, but at a terrible cost: 2, 000 men and almost as many horses were killed, wounded or captured in the action.

The chief of the House of Ascania, Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg, son of Albert the Bear, a maternal cousin of Henry the Lion, provided his sixth brother Bernard, Count of Anhalt, from then on Bernard III, Duke of Saxony, with the from then on so-called younger Duchy of Saxony ( 1180 – 1296 ), a radically belittled territory consisting of three unconnected territories along the river Elbe, from north west to south east, ( 1 ) Hadeln around Otterndorf, ( 2 ) around Lauenburg upon Elbe and ( 3 ) around Wittenberg upon Elbe.

Second Army reached the Weser on 4 April, the Elbe on 19 April, the shore of the Baltic Sea at Lübeck on 2 May.

Of the 12 power cables of the Elbe crossing 2, only six were used immediately after construction.

The others were installed for future use but grounded at the two anchor masts of the Elbe crossing 2 because of the difficulties of pulling cables over the Elbe if more capacity were needed later.

Image: Strommast. hetlingen. gesamt. wmt. jpg | The pylon of the Elbe 2 crossing near Hetlingen

He says that the source of the Elbe is among the Hermunduri, somewhat to the east of the upper Main.

677 km ; the Elbe ( Labe ) is the principal river

Elb ( m, plural Elbe or Elben ) is a reconstructed term, while Elbe ( f ) is attested in Middle High German.

Waterways: 7, 500 km ( 1999 ); major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe ; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea, the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal links Rotterdam on the North Sea with the Black Sea.

Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe ( after the port of Rotterdam ) and eleventh largest worldwide.

Hamburg is located on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster and Bille.

Since there is evidence that Lombardic participated in, and indeed shows some of the earliest evidence for, the High German consonant shift, it is classified as an Elbe Germanic or Upper German dialect.

Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe.

Magdeburg is one of the major towns along the Elbe Cycle Route ( Elberadweg ).

In other, even more speculative interpretations, Pytheas returned north and the Tanais is not the Don but is a northern river, such as the Elbe river.

* Tiberius Quinctilius Varus, legate, is charged with organizing Germania between the Rhine and Elbe rivers.

It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border.

The Dresden Elbe Valley is a former world heritage site which is focused on the conservation of the cultural landscape in Dresden.

One important part of that landscape is the Elbe meadows, which cross the city in a 20 kilometre swath.

Elbe Flood in April 2006: Dresden is often endangered by manageable floods while disastrous events as in 2002 or 1845 are not likely to happen twice within a hundred years.

Because of its location on the banks of the Elbe, into which some water sources from the Ore Mountains flow, flood protection is important.

Finally, in the east, Dessau-Roßlau is situated on the Elbe ( as is the Magdeburg ) in the Anhalt-Wittenberg region.

Meissen ( in German orthography: Meißen ; ; ; ; ) is a town of approximately 30, 000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.

In its mature phase, the Jastorf area proper in northern Lower Saxony ( Lüneburger Heide, lower Elbe ) can be contrasted with the so-called Nienburg ( also Harpstedt-Nienburg ) group to the west, situated along the Aller and the middle Weser, bordering the Nordwestblock separating it from the La Tène culture proper farther south.

Preceded by Lengyel-influenced STK groups / Late Lengyel in the southeast, Rössen groups in the southwest and the Ertebølle-Ellerbek groups in the north, the TRB techno-complex is divided into a northern group including modern northern eastalbingian Germany and southern Scandinavia ( TRB-N, roughly the area that previously belonged to the Ertebølle-Ellerbek complex ), a western group between Zuiderzee and lower Elbe, an eastern group centered around the Vistula catchment, roughly ranging from Oder to Bug, and south-central groups ( TRB-MES, Altmark ) around the middle and upper Elbe and Saale.

Variants of the Funnelbeaker culture in or near the Elbe catchment area include the Tiefstich pottery group in northern Germany as well as the cultures of the Baalberge group ( TRB-MES II and III ; MES = Mittelelbe-Saale ), the Salzmünde and Walternienburg and Bernburg ( all TRB-MES IV ) whose centres were in Saxony-Anhalt.

Around 600 AD a Slavic group called the Sorbs, who were fishermen and farmers, succeeded the Germanic tribes in the Elbe Valley, who had lived in the area for a couple of centuries from the 4th century BC on.