Plön

Plön (; ) is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides. The town's landmark is Plön Castle, a chateau built in the 17th century on a hill overlooking the town.

Key facts

German place.type: Stadt
German place.image_photo: Plon.jpg
German place.image_flag: Flagge Plön.png
German place.image_coa: DEU Plön COA.svg
German place.image_plan: Ploen in PLOE.png
German place.state: Schleswig-Holstein
German place.district: Plön
German place.elevation: 26
German place.area: 36.76
German place.postal_code: 24301–24306
German place.area_code: 04522
German place.licence: PLÖ
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel: 01 0 57 057
German place.website: www.ploen.de
German place.mayor: Lars Winter
German place.party: SPD

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections

Contents

History
Politics
Town council
Mayor
Coat of arms
Partnerships
Transport
Suburbs
Culture
Places of interest
Plön Castle
Parnass Tower
Water tower
Planet Walk
Museums
Krieglstein Puppet Theatre
Literature: "Wonderful times in Wonderful Plön"
Notable people
References
External links

Plön has a grammar school with a 300-year history, and is home to a German Navy non-commissioned officer school and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. The town, nestled as it is in the hilly, wooded lake district of Holstein Switzerland (Holsteinische Schweiz), also has importance in the tourism industry.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plön” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.