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Travemünde, Lübeck — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Travemünde is the Lübeck borough at the mouth of the Trave, a Baltic seaside resort with a lighthouse and the four-masted Passat.
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Where to stay in Travemünde
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Travemünde books out along the Baltic Sea front. The resort streets behind the beach hold most of the rooms, with the Leuchtturm Travemünde at one end and the ferry berths on the Trave at the other, so a stay here trades Lübeck's old centre for sand and departure boards. Ferries leave for Scandinavia.
You come for the beach and the Passat, and the borough sits far enough out from Lübeck to work as its own town.
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Travemünde beachfront
The Leuchtturm Travemünde marks one end of the sand and the Seebadmuseum Travemünde sets out the bathing seasons the front was built for.Find hotels in Travemünde beachfronttravellers timing a Scandinavian sailing out of LübeckTrave quays
Passenger and cargo ferries load on the Trave here for Scandinavia and the Baltic states, with the four-masted Passat tied up as the quay's landmark.Find hotels in Trave quaysHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Travemünde
What are the main landmarks in Travemünde?
The Leuchtturm Travemünde keeps watch over the mouth of the Trave. St. Lorenz and St. Georg are the borough's two churches, and the Seebadmuseum Travemünde sets out the history of the seaside resort that grew along the Baltic shore behind them. The Passat is the largest exhibit.
A four-masted barque tied up in the borough, it stands with the lighthouse and the museum among the few things Travemünde asks a visitor to look at before the water opens into Lübeck Bay.
What is the history of Travemünde?
Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, put a fortress at the mouth of the Trave in the 12th century, and the Danes later strengthened what he had built. Travemünde became a town in 1317. In 1329 it passed to the free city of Lübeck, which has held it since, and the fortifications guarding the river came down in 1807.
The Seebadmuseum Travemünde keeps the later record.
Where is Travemünde?
Travemünde sits at the mouth of the Trave on the Baltic coast of Schleswig-Holstein, the seaward end of Lübeck and of its bay.
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What is the best area to stay in Travemünde?
Travemünde beachfront: beach nights inside Travemünde's old bathing resort. Trave quays: travellers timing a Scandinavian sailing out of Lübeck.
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Updated October 2026