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Preetz

Preetz is a town southeast of Kiel in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany.

Preetz
Preetz · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Preetz is a town southeast of Kiel in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. Preetz is also known as "Schusterstadt" named after shoemakers who used to live and work in this town. Preetz has a population of about 16,000 and is the largest city in the district of Plön.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Preetz

7 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.

  1. 01
    Fuhlensee

    Fuhlensee is a lake in Holstein Switzerland, in the North German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It lies on the River Schwentine between the Kronsee and the Lanker See, south of Wahlstorf Manor House.

    5.7 km · lake in Wahlstorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lanker See

    The Lanker See is a lake in the region of Holstein Switzerland in North Germany. It lies south of the town of Preetz in the district of Plön, and is crossed from south to north by the River Schwentine.

    3.3 km · lake in Plön District, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Postsee

    Postsee is a lake in Kreis Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It has an elevation of 20.6 metres above sea level and a surface area of 276.4 hectares.

    2.8 km · lake in Plön District, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Scharsee

    Scharsee is a lake in Kreis Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 20.8 m, its surface area is 0.363 km².

    2.3 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kirchsee

    The Kirchsee is a lake in Plön district in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein, in a region known as "Holstein Switzerland". The Kirchsee is the lake in the town centre of Preetz.

    600 m · lake in Preetz, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Rosensee

    The Rosensee is a lake in the region of Holstein Switzerland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

    5.7 km · lake · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Arboretum Lehmkuhlen

    The Arboretum Lehmkuhlen is an arboretum maintained by the Guts- und Forstverwaltung Lehmkuhlen. It is located in Lehmkuhlen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and open by appointment only.

    5.2 km · garden in Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Preetz is home to 5 different churches. Its attractions are the town church and the monastery church founded in 1211 and is still largely preserved and worth a visit. Preetz has a Slavic ring wall and a tower hill castle, from which one sees (almost) nothing anymore. In Preetz there are a few Schuster monuments and a history museum, which is housed in the building of the old circus museum.

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    Heimatmuseum Preetz
  2. 02
    Wohnwasserturm Preetz

From Wikivoyage: Preetz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Schusteracht. A hiking and biking path

From Wikivoyage: Preetz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Akropolis

    Bahnhofstraße 26, 24211 Preetz,.

From Wikivoyage: Preetz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Preetz

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 70 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 138 km · Bremen (BRE), 165 km
  • Hamburg → Preetz
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €10–14
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  • Bremen → Preetz
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · €22–30
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  • Hannover → Preetz
    211 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · €25–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Preetz

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 Preetz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKiel serves as the German ferry terminus for the ferries to Oslo, Norway with Color Line and Gothenburg, Sweden with Stena Line.
  • Get aroundnetwork (2024)]] Kiel has a public transport system based on buses and ferries operated by KVG.
  • Get aroundA common cycling route leads from the city centre to Laboe, followed by a ferry crossing to Strande, and a return trip to Kiel along the western shore.
  • Get aroundFor short trips, the bike-sharing system Sprottenflotte is available via the Donkey Republic app.
  • Get aroundWhen crossing the Kiel canal, you can go across one of several bridges (Holtenauer Hochbrücken, Levensauer Hochbrücken), or take a ferry shuttle.

From Wikivoyage: Kiel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    253 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    365 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    872 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    877 km
  5. 05
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    919 km

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