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Everyone who is a guest in Cuxhaven, no matter whether they are holiday makers or hikers, knows the Kugelbake at the Elbe estuary near Cuxhaven-Döse. It is the landmark of the city and can also be found in the city coat of arms. From here you can watch the outgoing and incoming container giant excellent.

The Kugelbake is a wooden navigation mark in Cuxhaven. Measured from the middle Tidehochwasser to the middle of the small ball their height is 28.4 m. The term bake goes back to the Middle Ages, in which all navigational signs - including lighthouses - were so named. It is the landmark of Cuxhaven and depicted since 1913 in the coat of arms of the city. An earlier building still served as a lighthouse; Today, the Kugelbake is illuminated only at night as a tourist attraction. It forms the seaward boundary of the Elbe, so the end of the Binnenelbe after the Federal Waterways ActSource: Wikipedia