Rendsburg
Rendsburg is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Rendsburg is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476
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Worth seeing in and around Rendsburg
2 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.
- 01Rendsburg High Bridge
The Rendsburg High Bridge is a railway viaduct on the Neumünster–Flensburg line that also serves as a transporter bridge. The bridge crosses the Kiel Canal at Rendsburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
1.3 km · Railway bridge in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug is a shipyard located on the Eider River in Rendsburg, Germany, specialized in building innovative, custom-made luxury superyachts. In 2020 it celebrated its 115 years of operation.
2.3 km · shipyard based in Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Rendsburg High Bridge
The longest railway bridge in Europe, it is made of steel, 2,500 metres in length and 41 metres in height.
- 02Rathaus
- 03Longest bench
A 575.75 m (1,888.9 ft) long wooden bench along Kiel Canal.
- 04Kiel Canal Pedestrian Tunnel
Four escalators (each 55 m (180 ft) long) and a 130 m (430 ft) long tunnel tube, enabling people to cross underneath the Kiel Canal.
- 05Rendsburg
A perhaps bizarre consequence of the construction/expansion of the Canal is this railway loop in the middle of famously flat as a pancake Schleswig Holstein.
- 06Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage
Built in the 1990s, this is one of only two "ship welcoming facilities" in Germany (the other is the "Willkomm-Höft" on the Elbe river in Wedel).
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Things to do
- 01Schwimmzentrum Rendsburg
An der Untereider 29-31, 24768 Rendsburg, info@schwimmzentrum-rendsburg.de.
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Where to eat
- 01Hauptwache
Paradeplatz 1, 24768 Rendsburg, info@hauptwache-rendsburg.de.
- 02Brauer's Aalkate
Schirnauer See 5, 24790 Rade, fax: +49 4331 91297, brauers-aalkate@t-online.de.
- 03Brückenterassen
Am Kreishafen (at the Canal next to the Hochbrücke), restaurant@brueckenterrassen.de.
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Getting to Rendsburg
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 77 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 137 km · Bremen (BRE), 151 km
- Stations
- Rendsburg station, 400 m
- Hamburg → Rendsburg86 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €11–15
- Bremen → Rendsburg148 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €22–30
- Hannover → Rendsburg215 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €26–36
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rendsburg
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 Rendsburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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