Travemünde
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thumb|Travemünde beach, showing its characteristic roofed wicker beach chairs (Strandkorb in German) thumb|Barque Passat (ship)|Passat in Travemünde Travemünde () is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Danes subsequently strengthened it. It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lübeck, to which it has since belonged. Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.
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- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lübeck
- Population
- 13903
- Area
- 41.30
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Trave
- Shares border with
- Timmendorfer Strand
- Official website
- www.travemuende.de
- Image
- Travemuende old town.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04502
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- Commons category
- Travemünde
- P8168
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- postal code
- 23570
- P6482
- Travemünde
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01254/entity/travemunde
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
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thumb|Travemünde beach, showing its characteristic roofed wicker beach chairs (Strandkorb in German) thumb|Barque Passat (ship)|Passat in Travemünde Travemünde () is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Danes subsequently strengthened it. It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lübeck, to which it has since belonged. Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.
Travemünde has been a seaside resort since 1802, and is Germany's largest ferry port on the Baltic Sea with connections to Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia and Estonia. The lighthouse is the oldest on the German Baltic coast, dating from 1539. Another attraction of Travemünde is the Flying P-Liner Passat, a museum ship anchored in the mouth of the Trave.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Travemünde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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