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The Eider (German: Eider; Danish: Ejderen; Latin: Egdor or Eidora [1]) is the longest river in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Baltic Sea , but flows to the west, ending in the North Sea .
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General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
Friedrichstadt (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˌʃtat] ⓘ; Low German: Frieestadt; Danish: Frederiksstad; North Frisian: Fräärstää; Dutch: Frederikstad aan de Eider) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the river Eider approx. 12 km (7 miles) south of Husum.
It was called the Eider Canal and used stretches of the Eider River for the link between the two seas. Completed during the reign of Christian VII of Denmark in 1784, the Eiderkanal was a 43 km (27 mi) part of a 175 km (109 mi) waterway from Kiel to the Eider River's mouth at Tönning on the west coast.
The Eider Canal soon carried a considerable volume of shipping, and as decades passed the growing number and size of the ships wanting to make the crossing strained the canal's capacity. The winding course of the Eider and the need to navigate through the Frisian Islands at the canal's west end added to the travel time, and the drafts of late ...
Rendsburg (Danish: Rendsborg, also Rensborg, Low German: Rendsborg, also Rensborg) is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476.
River Eider 2 km (1.2 mi) north Gosen Canal: Gosener Kanal: Seddinsee in Berlin: Dämeritzsee in Berlin: Griebnitz Canal: Griebnitzkanal: Griebnitzsee in Berlin: Großer Wannsee in Berlin: Havel Canal: Havelkanal: River Havel at Hennigsdorf: River Havel at Paretz: Kammer Canal: Kammerkanal: Zierker See near Neustrelitz: Woblitzsee: Karl Heine ...