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Ratzeburg

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Ratzeburg (; ) is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is surrounded by four lakes—the resulting isthmuses between the lakes form the access lanes to the town. Ratzeburg is the capital of the district Herzogtum Lauenburg.

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Ratzeburg is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein that sits on a peninsula surrounded by four lakes, with narrow strips of land serving as the only routes into the town. It serves as the capital of the Herzogtum Lauenburg district.

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Key facts

German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_photo
Ratzeburger Dom im Sommer.JPG
German location.image_caption
Ratzeburg Cathedral
German location.image_flag
Flagge Ratzeburg.png
German location.image_coa
DEU Ratzeburg COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Ratzeburg in RZ.svg
German location.state
Schleswig-Holstein
German location.district
Herzogtum Lauenburg
German location.elevation
36
German location.area
30.29
German location.postal_code
23909
German location.area_code
04541
German location.licence
RZ
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
01 0 53 100
German location.website
www.ratzeburg.de
German location.mayor
Eckhard Graf

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Wikidata facts

Named after
Ratibor
Country
Germany
Population
14552
Area
30.29
Elevation
36
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Ziethen
Official website
www.ratzeburg.de
Image
2023 05 01 Ratzeburg PANO0001.jpg
Dialing code
04541
Licence plate code
RZ
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located in protected area
Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park
Commons category
Ratzeburg
topic's main category
Category:Ratzeburg
twinned administrative body
Châtillon-sur-Seine
postal code
23909
category of associated people
Category:People from Ratzeburg
short name
Ra
P8168
Huh Gak
hashtag
Ratzeburg
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Notable people
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Ratzeburg (; ) is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is surrounded by four lakes—the resulting isthmuses between the lakes form the access lanes to the town. Ratzeburg is the capital of the district Herzogtum Lauenburg.

==History== thumb|left|Ratzeburg, ca. 1590

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

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