Puttgarden ferry port

Flügge lighthouse

Fehmarn Sound Bridge from the sound

Fehmarn (Danish, Femern) is an island and - since 2003 - a town on this island in the Baltic Sea, off the eastern coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and ca. 18 kilometers south of the Danish island of Lolland. It belongs to the district of Ostholstein. The area is 185 km² and the coastline is 78 km. The highest hills are the "Hinrichsberg" (27.2 m) and the "Wulfener Berg" (26.5 m) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 1059 KB) Description: Fehmarn: Fährhafen Puttgarden Source: Selbst fotografiertes Bild Date: 10. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 1059 KB) Description: Fehmarn: Fährhafen Puttgarden Source: Selbst fotografiertes Bild Date: 10. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 715 KB) Description: Flügger Leuchtturm auf Fehmarn Source: Selbst fotografiertes Bild Date: 10. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 715 KB) Description: Flügger Leuchtturm auf Fehmarn Source: Selbst fotografiertes Bild Date: 10. ... Image File history File links Fehmarnsundbrücke. ... Image File history File links Fehmarnsundbrücke. ... Map of the Baltic Sea. ... Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ... Lolland (formerly spelled Laaland) is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of some 1,243 square kilometers. ... Ostholstein is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ...

Since 1963 Fehmarn has been connected to the German mainland by a suspension bridge, the Fehmarn Sound Bridge. It is 963.40 m long and 69 m high. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that has been made since ancient times. ...

Fehmarn Belt, a strait separating Fehmarn from Lolland, is located on the side opposite to Germany. The Fehmarn Belt can be crossed by ferries travelling between the seaports of Puttgarden, Germany, and Rødbyhavn, Denmark. The crossing takes about 45 minutes. Rødby is a municipality (Danish, kommune) on the island of Lolland in Storstrøm County in south Denmark. ...

The largest part of the town is Burg, with 6000 inhabitants. In addition, there are many tiny villages. The coasts serve as resting places for migratory birds, and it is thus a paradise for ornithologists. In Burg there is a large aquarium comprised of 40 fish tanks. The species that periodically migrate are called migratory bird, those that do not are called resident bird See also Resident bird Category: ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... For other uses, see Aquarium (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Fehmarn Belt bridge

Fehmarn and Lolland divided by the Fehmarn Belt Ferry route in satelite picture The Fehmarn Belt bridge is a project to connect the German island Fehmarn with the Danish island Lolland with a bridge crossing the Fehmarn Belt in the Baltic Sea. ...

External links

• Exhaustive Fehmarn genealogy site
• Tourismus-Service Fehmarn
• Satellite map from Google Maps

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Coordinates: 54°28′N 11°08′E Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Wikimedia Commons logo by Reid Beels The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...