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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.
About Travemünde
Where to stay in Travemünde
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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.
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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Updated September 2026