Hedeby
Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronicler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub visited Hedeby and described it as "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean."
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Worth seeing in and around Hedeby
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Schleswig Cathedral
Schleswig Cathedral officially the Cathedral of St. Peter at Schleswig (German: St.
2.5 km · cathedral · Wikipedia - 02Viking Museum Haithabu
The Hedeby Viking Museum is a museum near the site of Hedeby, a former medieval city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany focusing on the Viking Age history of the region. While the region is now in modern Germany, it was once the oldest city in Denmark until it was ceded in 1864.
700 m · museum in Schleswig, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Globe of Gottorf
The Globe of Gottorf is a 17th-century, large, walk-in globe of the Earth and the celestial sphere. It measures 3.1 meters in diameter.
3.3 km · planetarium built in the 1650s · Wikipedia - 04Burgsee
Burgsee is a lake in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Its surface area is 31.83 ha.
2.9 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia - 05Selker Noor
Selker Noor is a lake in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 0 m, its surface area is 0.558 km2.
1.5 km · lake · Wikipedia - 06Haddebyer Noor
Haddebyer Noor is a lake – formerly a small arm of the Schlei inlet of the Baltic Sea – in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 0 m, its surface area is one km2.
600 m · lake · Wikipedia - 07Graukloster
The Graukloster, also known as Kloster St. Paul or Kloster St.
2.6 km · monastery in Schleswig · Wikipedia - 08Schleswig City Museum
The Schleswig City Museum is located in the Günderorthschen Court, an ensemble of historical buildings in the Friedrichstrasse in the Schleswig district Friedrichsberg. The exhibition provides an overview of the city of Schleswig and Schleswig-Holsteins history and culture dating back to the Middle Ages.
2.2 km · City Museum in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hedeby
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 100 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 120 km · Billund (BLL), 141 km
- Stations
- Schleswig station, 2 km
- Hamburg → Hedeby109 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–17
- Bremen → Hedeby322 km · quickest by road, 6h 24m · €47–65
- Hannover → Hedeby409 km · quickest by road, 7h · €50–70
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hedeby
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hedeby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inKiel and Travemünde (close to Lübeck) are the main Baltic ports, whereas the cities on the North Sea Coast of Schleswig-Holstein have mostly ferries to various German islands, including Heligoland.
- Get inSome operators serve a handful of popular beach resorts, but this region is largely rural, and connecting services to Denmark are usually loaded onto a ferry instead of taking the roundabout way through Schleswig and the sparsely populated Jutland.
- Go nextHamburg Denmark Mecklenburg Vorpommern There is regular ferry service from Lübeck/Travemünde to several destinations in the Baltic
From Wikivoyage: Schleswig-Holstein, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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