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Wilhelmshaven (inhabited place) |
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| Lat: 53 31 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.5167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 008 08 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 8.1333 decimal degrees |
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Note: The city of Wilhelmshaven is situated on the western shore of Jade Bay, on the coast of Ostfriesland west of Bremerhaven in the Weser-Ems district of the northwestern German state of Lower Saxony. Founded in 1853t developed on land bought by Prussia from Oldenburg in the 1850s. It was a major naval base for Prussia and Germany, and was badly damaged in World War II, after which the remnants of its naval facilities were torn down. Its economic activities changed from naval construction and services to metalworking and the production of textiles and machinery. It has become a tourist and health resort famed for mud baths. It has also become an educational center, featuring the Max Planck Institute of Marine Biology as well as a teachers' college, an ornithological station, and institutes for geology, economics, labor, and politics. The 2004 estimated population was 84,700. |
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founded in 1853 |
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produces textiles, typewriters, precision tools and cranes |
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connected by pipeline with Köln |
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site of Max Planck Institute of Marine Biology and has facilities for study of ornithology and geology |
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during World War I and World War II, was demolished and dismantled after World War II |
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