Travel Guide Schleswig

A pleasant step that this small town rich in history, located in the bottom of its fjord (the Schlei) in the relaxing and already Scandinavian landscape. It has kept beautiful old streets, including the Holm district, the Scandinavian-style, low-coloured, colourful townhouses. The cathedral and the castle are large monuments. To spoil authenticity, there is only the immense "Viking Tower", high in 1973, next to what was the location of the Capitale Viking capital… There are some interesting regional museums in Schleswig.HistoryIn the Carolingian era, Schleswig - the Danish name Haithabu - then on the south side of the Schlei, was a centre of the Viking trade. In the th century, in the th century, Schleswig was built into the German Empire, which could not compete with its rivals in Lübeck and Kiel, and became the provincial small town that it ceased to be.