Travemuende is Luebeca's open-air theatre, and naturally it offers a lot more than beach, sand and bathing in the sea!
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Travemuende offers you everything, the great outdoors, romance, culture and sports. You can take tours on a bicycle or in a horse-drawn carriage, take a stroll on the beach promenade, go shopping on the Vorderreihe, explore the old part of
Travemuende and its old fishing huts, dream of far away places in the ferry terminal, buy freshly caught cod at the fish market or spend an evening at the casino.
Another site worth seeing is the
Church of St. Lorenz, built in the middle of the 16th century. The spire, added in 1620, has been consecrated to St. Lorenz. The baroque altar was built by the
Luebeck master craftsman Hieronymus Jakob Hassenberg, while the baroque style pulpit was built in 1735.
Experience a maritime atmosphere in
Travemuende's fishing harbour. Buy fresh fish on board the fishing boats as well as tasty "
Fischbroetchen", the Nordic fish sandwich. Then take a break and relax while enjoying the original charm of this little harbour.
In the 60s,
Travemuende changed into its current form. In 1962, construction of the
Scandinavia Quay began. Its eight piers, three of them with railroad tracks, make it Europe's largest ferry terminal. You can depart from "
Skandinavienkai" to Sweden, Finland, Russia and the Baltic states.
Three of the eight berths are specially designed for railway traffic. Besides the dispatch of new and used vehicles of all kinds, about 1 million passengers make the Terminal Skandinavienkai the starting point or the destination of their trip across the
Baltic Sea.
The terminal is also the contact point for a number of impressive cruise ships from all over the world. More and more large shipping companies are discovering the Baltic Sea as a lucrative region for their guests, offering Travemuende as an international cruise destination with charm.
In 1226, merchants in
Luebeck secured their trade channels through the Baltic Sea and erected a beacon in the port of
Travemuende. This simple wood fire was destroyed in 1534 during armed conflicts. Five years later, Dutch masons built the lighthouse from rock. 35 metres high, the new lighthouse sent its light rays far into the Baltic Sea. On April 30th, 1974, the beacon located on the Maritim Strandhotel in Travemuende went into operation. This orientation guide for seafarers has since been blinking at an elevation of 115 metres, making it the
highest lighthouse in all of Europe.
