Ratekau
Ratekau is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Ratekau is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of Lübeck.
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Worth seeing in and around Ratekau
One place 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.
- 01Hemmelsdorfer See
Hemmelsdorfer See is a lake in Eastern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of -0.10 m, its surface area is 4.48 km².
3.7 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ratekau
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 60 km · Bremen (BRE), 163 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 172 km
- Hamburg → Ratekau66 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €7–10
- Bremen → Ratekau160 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €19–26
- Hannover → Ratekau187 km · quickest by road, 3h · €22–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Ratekau
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 Ratekau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis region has the most frequent ferry connections from the Nordic countries to Germany.
- Get inFrom Rødby in Denmark there are ferries taking cars and trains to Puttgarden every half hour night and day.
- Get inTo Travemünde there are ferries from Malmö and Trelleborg in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.
- Get inEven as the trains between Copenhagen and Hamburg don't go by ferry via Fehmarn, you can still cross the Fehmarn Belt by ferry and hop on a local train in Puttgarden.
From Wikivoyage: East Holstein, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-10.
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Next door to Ratekau
Ratekau is 59 km from Wandsbek, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.