Timmendorfer Strand (Timmendorf Beach) is a municipality in the district of
Ostholstein
Ostholstein (; da, Østholsten) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of Stormarn, Segeberg and Plön, the Baltic Sea and the city of Lübeck.
History
The district wa ...
, in
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany. It is situated on the
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 bo ...
(
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
), approximately northwest of
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 st ...
, and southeast of
Eutin
Eutin () is the district capital of Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants.
History
The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. Its meaning i ...
.
Notable People
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Lilo Peters (1913-2001), German painter and sculptor, lived in Timmendorfer Strand.
References
External links
Seaside resorts in Germany
Ostholstein
Populated coastal places in Germany (Baltic Sea)
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