Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Schleswig (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Gottorf Castle, Schleswig Cathedral, and Wikinger Museum Haithabu. Also, be sure to include Brautsee in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein).
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Gottorf Castle
Also known as: Schloss Gottorf
Island castle and 2 state museums. Gottorf Castle is a castle and estate in the city of Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important secular buildings in Schleswig-Holstein, and has been rebuilt and expanded several times in its over eight hundred years of history, changing from a medieval castle to a Renaissance fortress to a Baroque castle.
It is the ancestral home of the Holstein-Gottorp branch of the House of Oldenburg, from which emerged in the 18th century, among other things, four Swedish kings and several Russian Emperors. It is situated on an island in the Schlei, about 40 km from the Baltic Sea.[1]
Address: Schlossinsel 1, Schleswig
Schleswig Cathedral
Also known as: Schleswiger Dom
Church in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Schleswig Cathedral officially the Cathedral of St. Peter at Schleswig, is the main church of the city of Schleswig and was the cathedral of the Bishop of Schleswig until the diocese was dissolved in 1624. It is now a church of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, the seat of the Lutheran Bishop of Schleswig and Holstein, and ranks among the most important architectural monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.[2]
Address: Suederdomstr. 1, 24837 Schleswig
Wikinger Museum Haithabu
Also known as: Wikinger-Museum Haithabu
Museum of Viking life and culture. The Hedeby Viking Museum is a museum near the site of Hedeby, a former medieval city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany focusing on the Viking Age history of the region. While the region is now in modern Germany, it was once the oldest city in Denmark until it was ceded in 1864. The museum features reconstructions of various Viking Age dwellings, ships, and houses numerous artifacts discovered during the ongoing archaeological research of the area.[3]
Address: Am Haddebyer Noor 5, 24866 Busdorf
Brautsee
Lake in Germany. Brautsee is a lake in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 12 m, its surface area is 7.2 ha.[4]
Globe of Gottorf
Also known as: Gottorfer Riesenglobus
The Globe of Gottorf is a 17th-century large globe of the earth in the Kunstkamera museum in St. Petersburg in Russia. It measures 3.1 meters in diameter.
The globe details a map of the earth's surface on the outside and a map of star constellations with astrological and mythological symbols on the inside. Turned by water power, it demonstrates the “movement” of the heavens to those seated inside in candlelight. It was a predecessor of the modern planetarium.[5]
Stadtpark Königswiesen
Relax in park, Park
Garnisonsfriedhof Schleswig
The Garrison Cemetery in Schleswig is a military cemetery from the 19th century. Buried there are fallen soldiers from the German-Danish War and World War I, as well as some notables.
Wasserturm Schleswig-Nord
The Schleswig-Nord water tower is located in the middle of a residential area on a hill in the north of Schleswig. After reconstruction, the 37.3 m high structure presents itself in unadorned, functional forms.
Asmus Jacobus Carstens
Also known as: Haithabu
Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the most important archaeological site in Schleswig-Holstein. Around 965, chronicler Abraham ben Jacob visited Hedeby and described it as, "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean."
The settlement developed as a trading centre at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet known as the Schlei, which connects to the Baltic Sea. The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be pulled on a corduroy road overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous and time-consuming circumnavigation of Jutland, providing Hedeby with a role similar to later Lübeck. Hedeby was the second largest Nordic town during the Viking Age, after Uppåkra in present-day southern Sweden, The city of Schleswig was later founded on the other side of the Schlei. Hedeby was abandoned after its destruction in 1066.
Hedeby was rediscovered in the late 19th century and excavations began in 1900. The Hedeby Museum was opened next to the site in 1985.
Hedeby is mentioned in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Marsh King's Daughter."[6]
Schlei Fahrschule am Dom
Address: Plessenstraße 7, Schleswig
Befreiungsdenkmal
Memorial