Town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Schleswig
Schleswig is a town in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
It is the capital of the Kreis (district) Schleswig-Flensburg. It has a population of about 27,000, the main industries being leather and food processing. It takes its name from the Schlei, an inlet of the Baltic Sea at the end of which it sits, and vik or vig which means "bay" in Old Norse and Danish. Schleswig or Slesvig therefore means "bay of the Schlei".
How locals move
Getting around Schleswig the local way
- Get inKiel and Travemünde (close to Lübeck) are the main Baltic ports, whereas the cities on the North Sea Coast of Schleswig-Holstein have mostly ferries to various German islands, including Heligoland.
- Get inSome operators serve a handful of popular beach resorts, but this region is largely rural, and connecting services to Denmark are usually loaded onto a ferry instead of taking the roundabout way through Schleswig and the sparsely populated Jutland.
- Go nextHamburg Denmark Mecklenburg Vorpommern There is regular ferry service from Lübeck/Travemünde to several destinations in the Baltic
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