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Municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Ratekau

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

Ratekau
Ratekau · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ratekau is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of Lübeck.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hemmelsdorfer 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

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.

Go there

Getting to Ratekau

Airports
Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 60 km · Bremen (BRE), 163 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 172 km
  • Hamburg → Ratekau
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €7–10
  • Bremen → Ratekau
    160 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €19–26
  • Hannover → Ratekau
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h · €22–31
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    265 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    880 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    894 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    907 km

If you know how people move in Ratekau – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ratekau

Ratekau is 59 km from Wandsbek, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.