Wilhelmshaven

The , the stadium of Regionalliga Nord club SV Wilhelmshaven

Jadestadion

– water tower built in 1911 and a significant landmark of Wilhelmshaven city.

Wasserturm Wilhelmshaven

Aquarium Wilhelmshaven, located on the Helgolandkai – a view of the oceans and underwater habitats around the world.

The , a municipal botanical garden.

Botanischer Garten der Stadt Wilhelmshaven

The Deutsches Marinemuseum (Navy Museum), whose main exhibits are the former German Navy Mölders (D186), a submarine, and some smaller warships as well as an exhibition of German naval history from the 19th century onwards.

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UNESCO World Heritage Site Wadden Sea Visitor center. The large permanent interactive exhibition provides insight into the Wadden Sea environment. One of the special displays is the 14-metre-long skeleton of a sperm whale which beached on the island of Baltrum in 1994 and weighed 39 tonnes when alive. The whale's organs were preserved using by Gunther von Hagens.

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The Küstenmuseum (Coastal Museum). The exhibition displays a broad spectrum of the past, present and future of the coast.

The Bontekai, city harbor jetty, featuring the former light vessel "Weser" and the steam engine powered buoy layer "Kapitän Meyer", an active museum ship. During the "Jade Weekend" (late June) it is berth of tall sailing ships, too.

The double swing bridge ("Emperor Wilhelm Bridge") crosses an inlet of the Jade Bight. It was built from 1905 to 1907 and is considered to be one of Wilhelmshaven's landmarks.

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke

The Town Hall (Rathaus), a large brick building, constructed from 1927 to 1929 by the architect as the town hall of the city of Rüstringen. It was severely damaged by bombs in 1944 and rebuilt from 1948 to 1953.

Fritz Höger

Ruins of Sibetsburg Castle. It was built in 1383, conquered and dismantled in 1435.

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The oldest church of the city is St. Jakobi Church at Neuende which was built about 1383 under the direction of the chieftain of Jever Edo Wiemken. The Christus-und-Garnisionskirche, built in 1869 by the Prussian architect Friedrich Adler was heavily damaged by bombs in 1942 and rebuilt after the war.^[21]

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Kopperhörner Mühle is a windmill dating from 1839 which was renovated in 1982 and 2000.

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Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, a monument erected in memory of emperor Wilhelm I of Prussia in 1896, who was one of the founder of the city. After the statue had been melted down in 1942, it was reconstructed in 1994.

The entrance building of the former Kaiserliche Marinewerft ("emperor's shipyard"), built in the 1870s.

The building of the former Kaiserliche Westwerft ("emperor's western shipyard"), completed in 1913.

(1753–1833), economist and statistician; produced a thematic map of Europe

August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome

(1794–1863) a chemist, discovered crystallographic isomorphism in 1819.^[23]

Eilhard Mitscherlich

(1892–1972), field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe

Erhard Milch

(1896–1934), Jewish mathematician

Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer

(1903–1938), theoretical physicist; associated with the Hellmann–Feynman theorem

Hans Hellmann

(1907–1976) naval officer in WWII and admiral in the West German Navy.

Adalbert von Blanc

(1907–1944), rocket pioneer, worked on the V-2 missile programme at Peenemünde

Klaus Riedel

(1911–2006), U-boat commander in World War II, and captain in the Bundesmarine

Otto von Bülow

(1912–1988), lawyer, stenographer and author, co-transcribed Hitler's Table Talk

Henry Picker

(1914–1992), scientist working in astronomy and acoustics, son of Georg Hermann Struve

Wilfried Struve

(1929–2005), actor and voice actor of characters in children's audio plays

Hans Clarin

(born 1937), clarinetist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Karl Leister

(born 1947), film historian, filmmaker, translator and writer.

Hans-Michael Bock

(born 1949), painter and sculptor

Rainer Fetting

(born 1958), violinist, stage director and principal conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Hengelbrock

(born 1964), film director and producer

Nico Beyer

(born 1964), local politician (SPD)

Olaf Lies

(born 1976), former nurse, serial killer, convicted of the murder of 85 people

Niels Högel

Vichy, France (1965)

Norfolk, Virginia, United States (1976)

Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom (1979)

Bromberg, Austria (1980)

Bydgoszcz, Poland (2006)

Lake Bant

Official German list of concentration camps (in German)

Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos

(in German)

Camp memorial Neuengamme

. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 641–642.

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