Heikendorf is a municipality in the district of Plön, in

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. It is a

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off the

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, located approximately 10 km from

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

. The oldest part of the town is the Old Viking settlement in Möltenort.

Notable people linked with Heikendorf

* Adolf Dethmann (1896-1979) engineer and communist activist *

Robert Habeck Robert Habeck (; born 2 September 1969) is a German politician and writer who has been serving as Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in ...

(born 2 September 1969 in Lübeck) writer and politician of Alliance '90/The Greens * Klaus-Dieter Flick (born 1937 in Germany) lawyer and financial broker, known as convicted Nazi art and military equipment collector from Kitzeberg, a wealthy suburb of Heikendorf

References

Seaside resorts in Germany Plön (district) {{Plön-geo-stub