Kappeln

The town of Kappeln in the Schleswig region, just before the Schlei flows into the Baltic Sea, is a small holiday hub on the Baltic coast east of the city of Schleswig. The Schlei is an approximately 40-kilometre-long meltwater channel formed after the last Ice Age. The drawbridge over the Schlei, the Schlei Museum, and the museum harbour—with 20 old ships and new vessels built to historic plans moored at a rustic pier—give the town its maritime character. Unique throughout the Baltic Sea region is the surviving herring fence, a basket-like woven fence into which herrings blunder, ready to be caught. Every year around Ascension Day, Kappeln becomes the setting for the Herring Festival.
The shallow waters make the beaches at Weidefeld and Kronsgaard particularly family-friendly.
Between 1986 and 2012, the town of Kappeln and its idyllic surroundings served as the filming location for the ZDF series “Der Landarzt,” under the name Deekelsen. The TV doctor’s surgery is in Lindau, right on the Schlei.
A major tourism development is taking shape on the former German Navy site in the Olpenitz district: the “Ostseeresort Olpenitz” holiday park. By 2018, 30 floating homes and several holiday homes had already been built there
Leisure sailors already have several places to stop, with marinas in the town itself and in the nearby villages of Arnis and Kopperby. With just under 400 residents, Arnis is considered Germany’s smallest town.

Places of interest in Schleswig.