Fehmarn & Ostholstein (Germany)
Fehmarn / ED75 → Lübeck / EDHL.
After we reached the Island of Fehmarn during our last flight, we spent some time exploring it, first by visiting the main settlement Burg auf Fehmarn, which served once as a regional trade port until Swedish forces demolished the natural harbour beyond repair during the Thirty Years War.
Further south we found the Burger See, the remnant of the old harbour with the ruins of Burg Glambek on its eastern headland. A golf course with an adjacent camping area is located on the western headland while a wind park was set up on the northern shore.
Following the coast of mainland Holstein down south we came across a town with an infamous past: Neustadt in Holstein was a medieval port that didn’t belong to the Hanseatic League, making it a perfect anchorage for Dutch traders and the feared “Viktualienbrüder” - the Pirates of the Baltic Sea - who intercepted trade ships coming from and to Lübeck.
Sadly, the famous Hanseatic City of Lübeck was hidden in the mists when we approached it, so we couldn’t see much of it. This city was one of the longest living Free Cities of Germany, keeping its status as an independent city state from 1226 to 1937 (since 1871 only nominal & administrative).
With reaching Lübeck we finished our tour of Schleswig-Holstein and will move on to the next state. As of now I haven’t decided yet if it is going to be Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Niedersachsen (+Hamburg).
Map of our Schleswig-Holstein Tour:
