The Geeste is a river in northwestern Germany, running through Lower Saxony and Bremen. It is the most downstream tributary of the River Weser and joins it near Bremerhaven. The Geeste rises in Hipstedt (Geestequelle - literally "Geeste springs") in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ten kilometres west of Bremervörde and drains a large part of the old district of (now Cuxhaven). Until the merger of the district of in 1932, the Geeste formed the boundary between the districts of and . * The Geeste near its source * The Geeste (1) as the westernmost part of the Elbe-Weser Shipping Channel * *