South Holstein
South Holstein comprises the southernmost part of Schleswig-Holstein forming a horseshoe right north of Hamburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Neumünster and Itzehoe.
Neumünster
Photo: Andreas Geick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neumünster is the fourth largest city in Schleswig-Holstein with a population of approx. 77.000. It is located in the center of Schleswig-Holstein, 40 km south of Kiel and 60 km north of Hamburg.
Itzehoe
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Itzehoe is a town in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, 51 km northwest of Hamburg and 24 km north of Glückstadt. The population is about 32,530.
Wedel
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Wedel is a city west of Hamburg. It sits on the banks of the river Elbe. Its main claim to fame is the "ship welcoming machine" that greets every ship heading up the river to Hamburg with its flag and national anthem.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Glückstadt and Bad Segeberg.
Glückstadt
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Glückstadt is a town of 11,000 people in South Holstein. It is a stop on the Deutsche Fährstraße theme road and on the Elbe Cycle Route.
Bad Segeberg
Photo: Andreas Geick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bad Segeberg is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district Segeberg. It is situated approximately 50 kilometers northeast of Hamburg, and 25 kilometers west of Lübeck.
South Holstein
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Germany
- Also known as: “Lower Elbe” and “Unterelbe”
- Category: river
- Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“South Holstein” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Unterelbe”
- Aragonese: “Unterelbe”
- Arpitan: “Unterelbe”
- Asturian: “Unterelbe”
- Basque: “Unterelbe”
- Bavarian: “Unterelbe”
- Breton: “Unterelbe”
- Catalan: “Unterelbe”
- Cebuano: “Unterelbe”
- Corsican: “Unterelbe”
- Croatian: “Unterelbe”
- Czech: “Unterelbe”
- Danish: “Unterelbe”
- Dutch: “Unterelbe”
- Esperanto: “Unterelbe”
- Estonian: “Unterelbe”
- Finnish: “Unterelbe”
- French: “Unterelbe”
- Friulian: “Unterelbe”
- Galician: “Unterelbe”
- German: “Stormarn und Unterelbe”
- German: “Unterelbe”
- Hungarian: “Unterelbe”
- Icelandic: “Unterelbe”
- Ido: “Unterelbe”
- Indonesian: “Unterelbe”
- Interlingua: “Unterelbe”
- Interlingue: “Unterelbe”
- Irish: “Unterelbe”
- Italian: “Unterelbe”
- Japanese: “エルベ下流部”
- Japanese: “下エルベ”
- Kongo: “Unterelbe”
- Latvian: “Unterelba”
- Ligurian: “Unterelbe”
- Limburgan: “Unterelbe”
- Low German: “Ünnerelv”
- Low German: “Unterelbe”
- Luxembourgish: “Unterelbe”
- Malagasy: “Unterelbe”
- Malay: “Unterelbe”
- Minangkabau: “Unterelbe”
- Narom: “Unterelbe”
- Neapolitan: “Unterelbe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Unterelbe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Unterelbe”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Unterelbe”
- Picard: “Unterelbe”
- Piemontese: “Unterelbe”
- Polish: “Unterelbe”
- Portuguese: “Unterelbe”
- Romanian: “Unterelbe”
- Romansh: “Unterelbe”
- Sardinian: “Unterelbe”
- Scots: “Unterelbe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Unterelbe”
- Serbian: “Unterelbe”
- Sicilian: “Unterelbe”
- Slovak: “Unterelbe”
- Slovenian: “Unterelbe”
- Spanish: “Unterelbe”
- Swahili: “Unterelbe”
- Swedish: “Unterelbe”
- Swiss German: “Unterelbe”
- Venetian: “Unterelbe”
- Vietnamese: “Unterelbe”
- Vlaams: “Unterelbe”
- Volapük: “Unterelbe”
- Walloon: “Unterelbe”
- Welsh: “Unterelbe”
- Wolof: “Unterelbe”
- Zulu: “Unterelbe”
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