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Rendsburg

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

Rendsburg
Rendsburg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Rendsburg 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
  2. 02
    Nobiskrug

    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

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

  1. 01
    Rendsburg High Bridge

    The longest railway bridge in Europe, it is made of steel, 2,500 metres in length and 41 metres in height.

  2. 02
    Rathaus
  3. 03
    Longest bench

    A 575.75 m (1,888.9 ft) long wooden bench along Kiel Canal.

  4. 04
    Kiel 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.

  5. 05
    Rendsburg

    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.

  6. 06
    Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage

    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).

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

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Schwimmzentrum Rendsburg

    An der Untereider 29-31, 24768 Rendsburg, info@schwimmzentrum-rendsburg.de.

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

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Hauptwache

    Paradeplatz 1, 24768 Rendsburg, info@hauptwache-rendsburg.de.

  2. 02
    Brauer's Aalkate

    Schirnauer See 5, 24790 Rade, fax: +49 4331 91297, brauers-aalkate@t-online.de.

  3. 03
    Brückenterassen

    Am Kreishafen (at the Canal next to the Hochbrücke), restaurant@brueckenterrassen.de.

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

Go there

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 → Rendsburg
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €11–15
  • Bremen → Rendsburg
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €22–30
  • Hannover → Rendsburg
    215 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €26–36
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    273 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    843 km
  4. 04
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    891 km
  5. 05
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    929 km

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