Good day all,
Coming from Denmark I will be visiting Lubeck and staying in Scharbeutz on a beach resort/therme on the Baltic Sea.
Any recommendations on what to do in Lubeck and the sky rounding area for a family?
Also, would you guys recommend any towns / attractions as a pit stop between Lubeck and Legoland Billund? We’ll have a rental.
Thanks,
Nate
Hi Mignon,
My kids are 8 and 9.
We love exploring city centres / town squares. Also the beach/nature, and small towns. And of course food and beer.
I am very much interested in the Hanseatic league and looking forward to Lübeck.
Hi Tim ,
Thanks for the link.
I am very much interested in the Hanseatic league and looking forward to Lübeck.
The Hanseatic museum is really interesting but does take a few hours to see properly.
Lubeck is also the home of marzipan so if you don't mind having sugar fuelled children for a few hours there are marzipan tours.
I was just going to suggest both Haithabu and the Sand Sculptures! The former is a pit stop (though Billund to Lübeck is an easy drive, so anything in between will also be easy as a side trip from either location). The latter is right outside of Lübeck.
Depending on your route you can also pass through Bad Segeberg and see the caves there. https://noctalis.de
Near Lübeck is the Dorfmuseum Ratekau. I haven't been, but it's one of those open-air, see what life was like back in the day places. Small, but free!
https://www.dorfmuseum-ratekau.de
Also an option as a stop is Arche Warder, a sort of museum / sanctuary / petting zoo for rare domesticated animals. You can feed rare goats, pigs, etc. like the Bulgarian Screw Horn Longhair Goat. We enjoyed it! www.arche-warder.de
Great that you're focusing here on Lübeck and the environs. Another vote here for Schleswig and Kiel.
I would also recommend in addition to the suggestions above the town of Eutin/Holstein for the Schloss (chateau) and if you're interested in music as the museum/house of Carl Maria von Weber, (Beethoven's contemporary) is located in Eutin. Signs point the way from the train station. I've been back to Eutin a few times as day trips.
While Kiel's and Lubeck's Zentrum were plastered by British bombing, Flensburg escaped the war intact and undamaged, if you're interested in seeing such architecture
