German Ferry Road

The German Ferries, a 250 -kilometer, in May 2004, this tourist tourist route between Kiel and Bremervörde, connects some 50 bridges, locks, barrages and ferries, including the two last German transporter bridges in Rendsburg and East ( Oste), and demonstrated in this way almost all possibilities, which man has ever devised to cross a body of water.

The three different routes ( for cyclists, motorists and water sports ) follow the river Oste, the lower Elbe, the North Sea-Baltic Canal and the Kiel Fjord. The holiday road eV from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osteland advertised with the slogan " Merry Fährien in the fresh north ".

From the audience of the mdr - television, the German Ferries was elected on 8 October 2008 as a " dream street in Germany " on # 2 of 50 nominated German roads in Germany.

The German Ferries had been opened in May 2004 by representatives of the AG Osteland and the Tourist Information NOK and with greeting words of the Prime Minister of Schleswig -Holstein and Lower Saxony. Was financed by the signs of the holiday road with EU funding of the Office of Rural Development in Bremerhaven, by the people's banks and the cities Brunsbuttel and Bremervörde, the town of Burg (Dithmarschen ) and the joint communities Nordkehdingen, Dobrock, Hemmoor, Lamstedt, Himmelspforten and Oldendorf.

Rendsburg High Bridge with transporter

Ferries on the North Sea-Baltic Canal in Breiholz

Ferry next to High Bridge Hochdonn

Brunsbuttel - ferry across the North Sea-Baltic Canal

Ferry dock Gluckstadt

Elbe ferry Gluckstadt wipe port

Former Baltic Sea ferry is located in Oberdorf as a restaurant ship " Ostekieker "

Transporter Bridge Hemmoor - east in the ancient village of East

Transporter Bridge East - Hemmoor in operation

Barge ferry across the river Oste in Brobergen

Hand-operated barge ferry across the river Oste in Gräpel