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Trave
The Trave () is a river in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is approximately long, running from its source near the village of Gießelrade in Ostholstein to Travemünde, where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It passes through Bad Segeberg, Bad Oldesloe, and Lübeck, where it is linked to the Elbe–Lübeck Canal. It is navigable for sea-going vessels from the Baltic to the Lübeck ports. The Herren Tunnel crosses the Trave, as do numerous bridges, and a ferry connects Travemünde with Priwall Peninsula, Priwall. Tributaries of the Trave include the Wakenitz and the Stepenitz (Trave), Stepenitz. Course Source and upper Trave The Trave rises in Gießelrade (a village in Ostholstein), whence it flows first southwesterly through the Wardersee to Bad Segeberg and then further south to Bad Oldesloe. There it bends eastward to just south of Reinfeld, Schleswig-Holstein, Reinfeld, flowing past Hamberge and (a district of Lübeck) to reach Lübeck. In Lübeck The Elbe–Lübeck Canal joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travemünde
Travemünde () is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Bay of Lübeck, Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Denmark, Danes subsequently strengthened it. It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lübeck, to which it has since belonged. Its fortifications were demolished in 1807. Travemünde has been a seaside resort since 1802, and is Germany, Germany's largest ferry port on the Baltic Sea with connections to Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia and Estonia. The lighthouse is the oldest on the German Baltic coast, dating from 1539. Another attraction of Travemünde is the Flying P-Liner ''Passat (ship), Passat'', a museum ship anchored in the mouth of the Trave. The annual Travemünder Woche is a traditional sailing race week in Northern Europe. The annual Sand festival in Travemünde is known as the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, after its capital of Kiel, and is the 35th-largest city in Germany. The city lies in Holstein, northeast of Hamburg, on the mouth of the River Trave, which flows into the Bay of Lübeck in the borough of Travemünde, and on the Trave's tributary Wakenitz. The city is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and is the southwesternmost city on the Baltic, as well as the closest point of access to the Baltic from Hamburg. The port of Lübeck is the second-largest German Baltic port after the port of Rostock. The city lies in the Northern Low Saxon dialect area of Low German. Lübeck is famous for having been the cradle and the ''de facto'' capital of the Hanseatic League. Its city centre is Germany's most extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbe–Lübeck Canal
The Elbe–Lübeck Canal () (also known as the Elbe–Trave Canal) is an canal, artificial waterway in eastern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It connects the rivers Elbe and Trave, creating an inland water route across the drainage divide from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. The canal includes seven Navigation lock, locks and runs for a length of between the cities of Lübeck in the north and Lauenburg in the south by way of the Mölln lakes. The modern canal was built in the 1890s to replace the Stecknitz Canal, a medieval watercourse linking the same two rivers. Preceding canal The older Stecknitz Canal had first connected Lauenburg and Lübeck on the Old Salt Route by linking the tiny rivers Stecknitz (a tributary of the Trave) and Delvenau (a tributary of the Elbe). Built between 1391 and 1398, the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe. History After German unification in the late nineteenth century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepenitz (Trave)
The Stepenitz is a right-hand tributary of the Trave in the northwest of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and within the borough of Lübeck in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Course The river rises northwest of city of Schwerin and the lake of Neumühler See near the Brüsewitz settlement of Eulenkrug and north of a hill ridgeLocal maps and ''Ursprung der Stepenitz'', Freimüthiges Abendblatt, Schwerin, Vol. 17/1835digitalised pdf; 112 kB) and Ministry of the Environment, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: ''Gewässergütebericht 1993'', Schwerin, 1994, p. 58 at a height of about . From there it first flows through the lake and then a succession of other lakes, including the , the Cramoner See, the and the . Continuing to head northwest, it collects the River Radegast in Börzow and the Maurine before Dassow. The river section from Rüting to Dassow has numerous meanders. Just behind the in Lübeck the Stepenitz empties into the Dassower See. Through this lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dassower See
Despite its name, the Dassower See (), sometimes called Lake Dassow or Dassow Bay in English, is not a lake, but a side bay, locally known as a ''wiek'', of the Trave Fjord, northeast of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) on the Baltic Sea. Geography The town of Dassow in the district Nordwestmecklenburg is the only large settlement on the shores of the bay. The Dassower See is a saltwater bay, which together with the Pötenitzer Wiek is almost fully cut off from the open sea and the Bay of Lübeck by the Priwall Peninsula. The bay is approximately in area and has a funnel-like shape extending outwards from the mouth of the River Stepenitz in the southeast and narrowing again in the northwest where it enters the Pötenitzer Wiek to approximately . At the mouth of the Stepenitz, near the Dassow Bridge, is a small landing stage for fishing boats from Dassow. The bay belongs to the city of Lübeck, and its entire shoreline forms part of the western border of Mecklenburg-Western Pomera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priwall Peninsula
The Priwall Peninsula (German: ''die Halbinsel Priwall'' or'' Der Priwall'') is a spit located across from the town of Travemünde at the Trave River estuary, on Germany's Baltic Sea coast. Since 1226 it has been administratively part of Travemünde, itself controlled by Lübeck. The southern part has been designated a nature reserve (''Naturschutzgebiet Südlicher Priwall''). The Priwall is the eastern terminus of a bicycle path, opened in 1995, that begins at the Danish border at the town of Kruså. More famously, it is the northern terminus of the former inner German border, and a few remnants of the border fortifications have been preserved near the beach. The Priwall's principal attraction is otherwise the four-masted barque ''Passat'' (now a museum ship) of the Flying P Line – which also included the four-masted barque '' Priwall''. The beaches of the Priwall at the Bay of Lübeck were the site of a former annual sand festival called Sand World. See also * German lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Lübeck
The Bay of Lübeck (, ) is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It forms the southwestern part of the Bay of Mecklenburg. The main port is Travemünde, a borough of the city of Lübeck, at the mouth of river Trave. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal connects the Baltic Sea with the Elbe River. The bay is surrounded by the landstrips of Ostholstein and Nordwestmecklenburg. Located in the North of the Bay, the Hansa-Park amusement park creates a popular sight for families all around the region and Southern Denmark. The Pötenitzer Wiek lake splits the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and got historical attention, as it gave East Germany refugees the possibility to flee from East Germany in to West Germany. Gallery File:Lübecker Bucht, Seegebiet.jpg, File:Blick auf Nordermole und Lübecker Bucht.JPG File:Lübecker Bucht vom Hansapark aus gesehen - panoramio.jpg File:Lübecker Buc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pötenitzer Wiek
The Pötenitzer Wiek (also called Traveförde) is an eastern bay of the lower Trave east of the Priwall Peninsula, Germany. The bay is in Schleswig-Holstein while the bank partly forms the border with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Until the Second World War, the Pötenitzer Wiek was a take-off and landing location for domestic seaplanes and functioned as the airport at that time for the Priwall airbase Luftwaffe. The name is due to the Mecklenburgian locality of ''Pötenitz'', which belonged to the town of Dassow Dassow () is a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on a bay of the Baltic Sea, 20 km east of Lübeck and 2 km south of Lübeck-Travemünde. It is also close to the cities o .... Bays of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Bays of Schleswig-Holstein Lübeck 0PotenitzerWiek {{MecklenburgVorpommern-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liubice
Liubice, also known by the German name Alt-Lübeck ("Old Lübeck"), was a medieval West Slavic settlement near the site of modern Lübeck, Germany. Liubice was located at the confluence of the Schwartau with the Trave across from Teerhof Island, approximately four kilometres north of Lübeck's island old town. The residence of Henry, the Christian prince of the Obotrites, Liubice was destroyed after his death by the pagan Rani of Rugia. History Slavic tribes began migrating to the Bay of Lübeck in the 7th century, replacing migrating Germanic tribes. The Wagrians and Polabians established numerous villages and castles, including Starigard, Plune, Racisburg, and Liubice, whose name means "lovely". Liubice was sparsely populated during the 9th and 10th centuries. In the middle of the 11th century, the settlement began to develop. Starting in 1055 during the rule of Gottschalk, a Christian prince of the Obotrite confederacy, the old castle was rebuilt. Gottschalk was killed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wardersee
Wardersee is a lake in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... At its elevation, its surface area is 3.6 km². External links * Lakes of Schleswig-Holstein LWardersee {{SchleswigHolstein-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakenitz
The Wakenitz is a river in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein and at the border to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The Wakenitz's source is the Ratzeburger See in Ratzeburg. It is about long and drains into the Trave in Lübeck. The majority of its eastern bank forms the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. After the end of World War II this river formed part of the Iron Curtain between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The Wakenitz drains an area of about . See also *List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein *List of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern A list of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: A * Aubach * Augraben, tributary of the Nebel * Augraben, tributary of the Tollense B * Barthe *Beke * Bietnitz * Boize * Brebowbach * Bresenitz * Brüeler Bach D *Datze * Delvenau * Dollbek ... Rivers of Schleswig-Holstein Lübeck Rivers of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Rivers of Germany {{Mecklenburg-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beste (river)
Beste is a river of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It flows into the Trave in Bad Oldesloe. See also *List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein A list of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: A * Aalbek, flowing through the Hemmelsdorfer See and into the Baltic Sea * Aalbek, tributary of the Stör *Alster * Alte Schwentine * Arlau B * Barnitz * Basshornlaufgraben * Bekau * Beste * ... Rivers of Schleswig-Holstein Rivers of Germany {{SchleswigHolstein-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
