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Ratekau
Municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Ratekau

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

Plan a trip to Ratekau→From Hamburg

It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of Lübeck.

How locals move

Getting around Ratekau the local way

  • 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, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

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