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Nordertor (North Gate), Flensburg – Flensburg Harbor Point loop from Flensburg
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Nordertor (North Gate), Flensburg – Flensburg Harbor Point loop from Flensburg
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Nordertor (North Gate), Flensburg – Flensburg Harbor Point loop from Flensburg
01:46
6.67km
70m
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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: June 13, 2026
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1.03 km
St. Nicholas’ Church (Nikolaikirche), Flensburg
Highlight • Religious Site
The church was built in two stages. In place of today's sanctuary stood in 1332 a smaller church. The building grew after 1390, starting from West, first on the forecourt. After completion of the four western yokes, they were established and consecrated as a church.
Then they tore off the old church and continued the construction from 1440 to the east. First without a tower, it was completed in 1480, damaged in the city fire of 1485 and rebuilt until 1490.
In 1497, Peter Hansen cast the bronze baptismal font in Rote Straße. There were 422 inhabited plots of which 143 in St. Nicholas. Already in 1526 Gerhard Slewardt gave the first Lutheran sermon in Flensburg here.
According to the Reformation understanding of a church in 1570, the lawyer Blasius Eckenberger donated the pulpit carved by the Lübeck-based Hinrich Matthes, which received a staircase around 1600 probably built by Heinrich Ringeringk.
In 1897 the Schalldeckel was added, a work of the museum's founder Heinrich Sauermann. Now the tower helmet was built in neo-gothic style after plans of the architect Johannes Otzen from Berlin. The tower is now about 90 meters high.
In 1909 he received at 60 meters height, a glockenspiel, the 17 bells ring every day at 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21 clock. St. Nikolai is the largest church in the city with dimensions of 52 x 21 m, a ridge height of 40 m and a 90 m high tower.
In 1898 the "Kattsund" houses south and east of the church and two houses north of the then smaller Südermarkt were demolished. From the construction situation at that time, one can get an approximate picture of the walk around the church. If one goes up from the entrance of the church to the Nikolaikirchhof, one passes the organist's house built on the tower, on the opposite side of the tower the building of the former To reach St. Nikolai operated school.
nikolaikirche-flensburg.de/Kirche%20Geschichte.html
Then they tore off the old church and continued the construction from 1440 to the east. First without a tower, it was completed in 1480, damaged in the city fire of 1485 and rebuilt until 1490.
In 1497, Peter Hansen cast the bronze baptismal font in Rote Straße. There were 422 inhabited plots of which 143 in St. Nicholas. Already in 1526 Gerhard Slewardt gave the first Lutheran sermon in Flensburg here.
According to the Reformation understanding of a church in 1570, the lawyer Blasius Eckenberger donated the pulpit carved by the Lübeck-based Hinrich Matthes, which received a staircase around 1600 probably built by Heinrich Ringeringk.
In 1897 the Schalldeckel was added, a work of the museum's founder Heinrich Sauermann. Now the tower helmet was built in neo-gothic style after plans of the architect Johannes Otzen from Berlin. The tower is now about 90 meters high.
In 1909 he received at 60 meters height, a glockenspiel, the 17 bells ring every day at 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21 clock. St. Nikolai is the largest church in the city with dimensions of 52 x 21 m, a ridge height of 40 m and a 90 m high tower.
In 1898 the "Kattsund" houses south and east of the church and two houses north of the then smaller Südermarkt were demolished. From the construction situation at that time, one can get an approximate picture of the walk around the church. If one goes up from the entrance of the church to the Nikolaikirchhof, one passes the organist's house built on the tower, on the opposite side of the tower the building of the former To reach St. Nikolai operated school.
nikolaikirche-flensburg.de/Kirche%20Geschichte.html
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1.48 km
Große Straße (Flensburg pedestrian zone)
Highlight • Settlement
One of the most beautiful pedestrian areas here in the north.
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1.83 km
St. Mary's Church, Flensburg
Highlight • Religious Site
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary is one of the two largest and most important churches in Flensburg. Its history is closely linked to that of the city. It rises above an old settlement core on the gently rising western bank above the Flensburg Fjord north of the Nordermarkt.
Source and further detailed information:
st-marien-flensburg.de/mehr-zur-kirche
Source and further detailed information:
st-marien-flensburg.de/mehr-zur-kirche
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1.93 km
Norderstraße Hanging Shoes and Cat Street Art
Highlight (Segment) • Monument
There are supposed to be places where the sky is full of violins. In Flensburg – there are shoes hanging up there. Stretched on a line above Norderstrasse. But why?
There aren't many trends that originate in Flensburg and only arrive in Berlin years later. Shoefiti is one of them. That is the name of the art that has been conquering the city since 2007, which is otherwise known primarily for its dots and swing tops on beer bottles.
They hang high above the otherwise rather dreary Norderstrasse – sneakers, rubber boots, sandals. Shoes of all kinds that have one thing in common: the old overhead line of the former Flensburg tram from which they dangle.
Nobody knows exactly where they come from, only that there have been more and more of them in recent years, until the Christmas decorations finally had to go and the Nordertor – once the secret landmark of Flensburg and located on the same street – was only given a supporting role in city tours.
You can certainly imagine that today there are at least as many legends as there are shoes on the line.
For example, the story of the annoyed husband who once threw his wife's smelly shoes over the wire ropes. Or the story of the discotheque visitors of the former Roxy Club who played a joke at night and, drunk, threw their shoes in the air until they finally got caught in the ropes. And then there is the story of the owner of the adjacent skate shop who asked his customers to throw their old shoes over the line after they had bought new ones from him.
The US-based Travel+Leisure doesn't care at all where the shoes actually come from. "Regardless of its original purpose, Norderstraße has become an unofficial landmark of Flensburg and inspires tourists to do their own part by leaving their shoes behind," says the magazine's justification for naming Norderstraße one of the 18 craziest streets in the world, alongside streets in Sydney, Taipei and Buenos Aires.
waitingishappiness.com/shoefiti-schuhe-an-der-leine-flensburg-nordstadt
There aren't many trends that originate in Flensburg and only arrive in Berlin years later. Shoefiti is one of them. That is the name of the art that has been conquering the city since 2007, which is otherwise known primarily for its dots and swing tops on beer bottles.
They hang high above the otherwise rather dreary Norderstrasse – sneakers, rubber boots, sandals. Shoes of all kinds that have one thing in common: the old overhead line of the former Flensburg tram from which they dangle.
Nobody knows exactly where they come from, only that there have been more and more of them in recent years, until the Christmas decorations finally had to go and the Nordertor – once the secret landmark of Flensburg and located on the same street – was only given a supporting role in city tours.
You can certainly imagine that today there are at least as many legends as there are shoes on the line.
For example, the story of the annoyed husband who once threw his wife's smelly shoes over the wire ropes. Or the story of the discotheque visitors of the former Roxy Club who played a joke at night and, drunk, threw their shoes in the air until they finally got caught in the ropes. And then there is the story of the owner of the adjacent skate shop who asked his customers to throw their old shoes over the line after they had bought new ones from him.
The US-based Travel+Leisure doesn't care at all where the shoes actually come from. "Regardless of its original purpose, Norderstraße has become an unofficial landmark of Flensburg and inspires tourists to do their own part by leaving their shoes behind," says the magazine's justification for naming Norderstraße one of the 18 craziest streets in the world, alongside streets in Sydney, Taipei and Buenos Aires.
waitingishappiness.com/shoefiti-schuhe-an-der-leine-flensburg-nordstadt
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2.49 km
Nordertor (North Gate), Flensburg
Highlight • Monument
The Nordertor with the striking stepped gable is the only surviving city gate Flensburgs and the landmark of the city. The gate in the present form was built in 1595 as an "entrance gate" and formed until 1795 the northern boundary of the city.
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Flensburg Harbor Point
Highlight • Viewpoint
The Flensburger Hafen (Flensburg Harbour) is located at the end of the Flensburger Förde within the city of Flensburg. A distinction is made between the west side, the east side, and the tip of the harbour.
The harbour extends in the west from the tip of the harbour to the Baltic Sea resort. On the east bank, its dimensions were formerly counted up to Kielseng. Since the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, Sonwik and the adjacent boat harbour of the Mürwik Naval School are sometimes also mentioned in this context. In addition, the buildings of the Flensburg city centre, the buildings of Jürgensby, and the Volkspark are located around the harbour, forming Flensburg's distinctive skyline. Next to the Flensburger Hafen, there is a sailing harbour at Fahrensodde on the east bank, which does not belong to the aforementioned harbour.
At the tip of the harbour, Flensburg's Mühlenstrom flows into the Förde. On Angelburger Straße, where the tip of the harbour was located in the Middle Ages before the Förde silted up, became muddy and was filled in, the Royal Water Mill stood until the beginning of the 20th century.
The current tip of the harbour is protected from surrounding traffic noise by the embankments of the harbour railway. Until the 1980s, the so-called Kanalschuppen (canal shed) stood there. Today, the tip of the harbour is undeveloped and consists of a large open space that serves as a venue for various events. In summer, when the area is unoccupied, young people often play frisbee or Viking chess there.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flensburger_Hafen
The harbour extends in the west from the tip of the harbour to the Baltic Sea resort. On the east bank, its dimensions were formerly counted up to Kielseng. Since the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, Sonwik and the adjacent boat harbour of the Mürwik Naval School are sometimes also mentioned in this context. In addition, the buildings of the Flensburg city centre, the buildings of Jürgensby, and the Volkspark are located around the harbour, forming Flensburg's distinctive skyline. Next to the Flensburger Hafen, there is a sailing harbour at Fahrensodde on the east bank, which does not belong to the aforementioned harbour.
At the tip of the harbour, Flensburg's Mühlenstrom flows into the Förde. On Angelburger Straße, where the tip of the harbour was located in the Middle Ages before the Förde silted up, became muddy and was filled in, the Royal Water Mill stood until the beginning of the 20th century.
The current tip of the harbour is protected from surrounding traffic noise by the embankments of the harbour railway. Until the 1980s, the so-called Kanalschuppen (canal shed) stood there. Today, the tip of the harbour is undeveloped and consists of a large open space that serves as a venue for various events. In summer, when the area is unoccupied, young people often play frisbee or Viking chess there.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flensburger_Hafen
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4.00 km
Neptune Fountain at Nordermarkt, Flensburg
Highlight • Monument
The Nordermarkt is the medieval center of Flensburg and the oldest market square in the city. It was built in the middle of the 12th century under the Danish King Waldemar I, when a new settlement was built here. In the middle of the square stands the Neptune fountain from 1785.
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4.73 km
Museumsberg Flensburg
Highlight • Historical Site
The Museumsberg Flensburg with its two houses is one of the largest museums in Schleswig-Holstein. The permanent exhibition in the Heinrich Sauermann House shows art and cultural history from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The neighboring Hans-Christiansen-Haus shows Schleswig-Holstein art from the 19th to the 21st century.
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6.67 km
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2.40 km
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1.13 km
832 m
123 m
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5.66 km
754 m
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flensburger-hofkultur.de/die-hoefe
For Flensburg, however, you need more time than we took, maybe next time 😇
Tomorrow we're …
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More photos and reports about my bike tours on radtour-fotos.de
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Flensburg is picturesquely situated on the fjord and directly on the border with Denmark. For many centuries the city belonged to Danish territory, and from 1864 to Prussia. The current border has existed since 1920, but the …
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