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Rendsburg
Town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Rendsburg

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

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It is the capital of the Kreis (district) of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476

Get in

Getting to Rendsburg

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    Rendsburg

    Rendsburg is served by Hamburg - Flensburg Regionalexpress trains as well as Kiel - Husum regional trains.

See

Worth seeing

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    Rendsburg High Bridge

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

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    Rathaus
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    Longest bench

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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).

Do

Things to do

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    Schwimmzentrum Rendsburg

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

Eat

Where to eat

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    Hauptwache

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

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    Brauer's Aalkate

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

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    Brückenterassen

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.