Rundweg Haddebyer Noor – Ostseefjord Schlei

The starting point of this beautiful hike is the Viking Museum Haithabu near Schleswig. To immerse yourself in the past with the Vikings, a visit to the exhibition building is highly recommended. Here you can take your time to be impressed by the archaeological finds, the reconstructions, and the excellent presentation before heading out to the open-air grounds with the seven true-to-life reconstructions. Haithabu was protected by a semi-circular rampart, which you can still recognize very well today. People lived in wooden houses with wattle-and-daub walls and pursued their activities on narrow plank paths. For their ships, they had built a jetty into the Haddebyer Noor. A wide range of events regularly brings the old crafts and the world of the Vikings to life for you.

You leave the ring wall in a southerly direction, pass one of the reconstructed runestones, and reach the small wooden bridge over the Noor. It looks a little unreal and fragile, appearing like a mirage in the flat landscape, yet it is stable enough to allow you to cross to the other side. On the eastern bank of the Haddebyer Noor, you now walk to the Baltic Sea fjord, the Schlei. With a little imagination, you can imagine how Viking ships sailed here into the Schlei, then through the fjord, which is over 40 kilometers long, and finally to the Baltic Sea.

After crossing the dam, you turn back towards the museum at Odins Biergarten and Restaurant and soon reach your starting point.